JURIST - Monitor: January 2007

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Leahy FISA surveillance orders statement [US Senate]
11:18 PM ET

US Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy on the Bush administration's announcement that it will make FISA court orders available, US Senate, January 31, 2007. RealPlayer, 4 minutes. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Bush presidential signing statements hearing [US House Judiciary Comm.]
10:28 PM ET

Presidential Signing Statements under the Bush Administration, US House Judiciary Committee, January 31, 2007. RealPlayer, 266 minutes. Watch recorded video.

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Crime of aggression briefing [ICC]
11:59 AM ET

Christian Wenaweser, Chairman of the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, briefs on the definition of the crime of aggression and on the exercise of the Court`s jurisdiction with regard to that crime. RealPlayer, 30 minutes. Watch recorded video.

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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Military Commissions and the Case of Salim Hamdan [UICL]
10:04 PM ET

Military Commissions and the Case of Salim Hamdan, Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift, University of Illinois College of Law, January 26, 2007. Watch recorded video.

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

2007 State of the Union Address [White House]
11:48 PM ET

State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush, January 23, 2007 [pressing comprehensive immigration reform and calling for fair hearings for his judicial nominees]. RealPlayer, 49 mins. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Monday, January 22, 2007

Constitutional limits on the Commander-in-Chief [ACS]
11:34 PM ET

Congress as Surge Protector? Escalation in Iraq, the Congress and the Constitution, American Constitution Society, January 22, 2007 [discussing the scope of the US Congress' power to limit the President's actions in wartime following his announcement to increase troop deployment to Iraq]. RealPlayer, 1 hr 26 mins. Watch recorded video. View event details here.

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Friday, January 19, 2007

Leahy FISC surveillance oversight statement [US Senate Judiciary Comm.]
8:45 AM ET

US Senate Judiciary Committee, Hearing On Department Of Justice Oversight, January 18, 2007 [excerpt from testimony and questioning of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on government surveillance, treatment of detainees, and the case of Maher Arar]. RealPlayer, 14 mins. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Gonzales surveillance authorization testimony [US Senate Judiciary Comm.]
11:31 PM ET

US Senate Judiciary Committee, Hearing On Department Of Justice Oversight, January 18, 2007 [excerpt from testimony and questioning of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on government surveillance of transmissions coming into or going outside of the country where one party was suspected of association with a terrorist organization]. RealPlayer, 20 minutes. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Ex-Guantanamo detainee interview [GULC]
3:50 PM ET

Face to Face with a Guantanamo Detainee, Georgetown University Law Center, January 17, 2007 [including remarks by former Guantanamo detainee, Moazzam Begg]. Quick Time Player, 1 hr 40 mins. Access recorded video here. Begg's allegations of abuse and torture at Guantanamo reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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9/11 Commission recommendations review [US Senate Commerce Comm.]
3:33 PM ET

US Senate Commerce Committee hearing to review the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transaportation, January 17, 2007 [including TSA Administrator Kip Hawley's testimony concerning case-by-case review of the No-Fly list]. RealPlayer, 2 hrs 13 mins. Watch recorded video. Fast forward to 35:40 for hearing's commencement; Hawley's testimony begins at 37:40. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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SG Ban Ki-moon on Hariri tribunal [UN]
1:38 PM ET

Press remarks by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the stalled Hariri tribunal, January 17, 2007. RealPlayer, 13 mins. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

AG Gonzales judicial activism speech [AEI]
4:40 PM ET

Democracy and the Third Branch, AG Alberto Gonzales, American Enterprise Institute, January 17, 2007 [suggesting judges are not the appropriate agents to rule on national security issues and advising extreme caution when declaring executive and legislative action unconstitutional]. 41 mins. Access recorded video here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Friday, January 12, 2007

2007 World Report briefing [HRW]
9:50 PM ET

2007 World Report briefing, Human Rights Watch, HRW Director Kenneth Roth, January 12, 2007 [introducing HRW's latest annual report on human rights around the world]. Streaming MP3, 6 minutes. Listen to recorded audio [video not available]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

SG Ban Ki-moon news conference [UN]
11:43 AM ET

News conference with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, January 11, 2007 [reporting on his initial ten days, commenting on the crises in Sudan and the Middle East to “housekeeping” steps to strengthen the world body’s institutional capacity]. RealPlayer, 48 mins. Watch recorded video.

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Supreme Court union dues cases briefing [ACS]
5:33 PM ET

Press briefing on First Amendment union dues cases in the US Supreme Court, American Constitution Society, January 4, 2007 [discussing pending union dues cases Davenport v. Washington Education Association & Washington v. Washington Education Association]. RealPlayer, 1 hr 28 mins. Watch recorded video. View event details here.

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Saddam Hussein execution briefing [MNF-Iraq]
9:59 PM ET

Press briefing by Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, Spokesman, Multi-National Force - Iraq, January 3, 2007 [includes discussion of the US role in the execution of Saddam Hussein and mention that coalition forces would have handled the matter "differently"]. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.