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By wilson on July 29, 2010
The violence and intimidation being perpetrated by ZANU-PF to sabotage the constitutional outreach programme has turned into a fully-fledged official campaign dubbed, Operation “Vhara Muromo”, which means “Shut Your Mouth”.
Posted in World News | Tagged adoption, africa, being-perpetrated, constitutional, draft, final, kenya, mouth, muromo, new-constitution, president, spirited-effort, the-draft
By on July 23, 2010
A most intriguing political development occasioned by the constitutional referendum is how former President Daniel Arap Moi and his onetime political protégé, William Ruto, have closed ranks to lead the NO campaign.
Posted in World News | Tagged africa, constitutional, friends-or-foes, how-former, most-intriguing, onetime, president, proposed, question, the-political, the-proposed, william-ruto
By on July 23, 2010
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
Posted in World News | Tagged africa, constitutional, friends-or-foes, most-intriguing, not-necessarily, onetime, president, proposed, report, the-political, united, united-nations
By wilson on July 9, 2010
The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) report that 5 independent monitors of the constitutional outreach programme were arrested Thursday evening in Chirumanzi and detained at Charandura Police Station.
Posted in World News | Tagged articles-critical, constitutional, detained-at-charandura, editor, human, human-rights, renewed-threats, rwanda, were-arrested, zimbabwe, zimbabwe-lawyers, zlhr
By on June 29, 2010
On the second day of her confirmation hearings, the solicitor general backed away from her past call for nominees to talk about their constitutional views.
Posted in Top News | Tagged confirmation, constitutional, general-backed, her-confirmation, her-past, supreme court, the-second, the-solicitor, their-constitutional
By wilson on May 25, 2010
The House could begin to take up the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy as soon as this week.
Posted in Top News | Tagged constitutional, defense department, deficits-may, democratic party, gates, robert m, heightened-concern, law and legislation, mullen, michael g, murphy, patrick j, orszag, peter r, purse, week
By wilson on May 25, 2010
Even heightened concern about federal deficits may not be enough to overcome lawmakers’ traditional resistance to sharing more of their constitutional power of the purse.
Posted in Top News | Tagged budgets and budgeting, constitutional, deficits-may, heightened-concern, house of representatives, law and legislation, obama, barack, overcome-lawmakers, purse, senate, their-constitutional, vetoes (us)
By on May 18, 2010
Unlike past officials, the city’s new mayor and the police superintendent welcomed the inquiry, the first step in an overhaul.
Posted in Top News | Tagged congress, constitutional, heated-debate, inquiry, new-mayor, police, power, supreme court, the-first
By wilson on May 18, 2010
The 7-to-2 decision touched off a heated debate among the justices about the constitutional limits on the power of Congress to legislate.
Posted in Top News | Tagged congress, constitutional, decisions and verdicts, heated-debate, power, prisons and prisoners, sentences (criminal), sex crimes, supreme court, the-constitutional, the-power
By wilson on April 23, 2010
The Constitutional Court in Kenya has barred the government from implementing the Anti-Counterfeit Act of 2008 as it applies to generic medicines until a verdict is delivered in a case filed by three people living with HIV.
Posted in World News | Tagged africa, barred-the-government, case-filed, constitutional, fact, from-implementing, generic-medicines, germain, government, hiv, kenya, ngota-ngota, protect, the-government
