death penalty a tool in state, author says

She also interjected her story with jabs at President Bush, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Patriot Act, Iraq, Congress debate over what constitutes torture and the response to Hurricane Katrina in home state of Louisiana.. ..

u.s. backtracks on suspects

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Tuesday it will grant the terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay under Geneva Conventions, policy shift for Bush after Supreme Court rejected its plan to use military tribunals to try the detainees.. ..

nominee is believer in religious freedom

During his 15 years as an appellate judge, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee has written decisions in favor of Muslim police officers in Newark, N.J., who wore beards, an American Indian from Pennsylvania who raised sacred black bears, and a Jewish professor who said she was..

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