Under US law, the military sales will need to be approved by Congress.
Mr Hamdan contested his status as "enemy combatant", and his lawyers were seeking to force US authorities to try him in a civilian court, arguing that the military tribunals were illegal under US law.
The second is entirely legal under US law.
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For starters, under US tax law, premiums on employer-sponsored health insurance are deductible--not so for employee-sponsored plans.
Under US federal law, two companies are allowed to share the same name providing their uses are not similar.
Critics of the Bush administration's interrogation programme say the memos provide evidence that many of the methods amount to torture under US and international law.
So technically under UN law the US and UK will be breaking it if they invade Iraq without UN consent.
The U.S. joining this treaty really renounces the freedom that we have now under customary international law and would subject us to the votes of the treaty adherents, which are undoubtedly much like the General Assembly of the U.N.
Americans have always understood that each of us is entitled to a set of fundamental freedoms and protections under the law, and that when everyone gets a fair shot at opportunity, all of us do better.
But this would only be at the invitation of the Afghan government and under an agreement guaranteeing US troops immunity from Afghan law.
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Google is also promising that it will stop copying content from other websites to use in its summaries, even though the company had insisted the practice was legal under the fair-use provisions of US copyright law.
Clinton further wants mandatory U.S. citizen enrollment under penalty of law, an idea that practically begs us to see Hillary as the hated Nurse Ratched.
Under current law, the highest tax rate in the US in 2013 will be 40.5% (39.6% assuming the Bush tax cuts are not extended plus 0.9% Medicare surtax on high earners).
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Ordinary Americans have fought to fully realize that vision for more than two centuries, courageously forging a democracy that empowers each of us equally and affords every citizen due process under the law.
The problem is the European courts cannot compel us to change the law as abortion is illegal under the constitution.
What came to light was an extraordinary memo from the US justice department arguing that while torture would be illegal under American law, inflicting pain in order to get information wasn't torture.
And the political left in the United States, for various reasons, has allied with the forces of the proponents of Islamic law in order to impose those blasphemy codes upon us under the guise of hate speech, so called.
Mr. HAROLD KOH (Dean, Yale Law School): So for us to precede and to try people under these standards would subject us to a charge that we're engaged in some of kangaroo justice.
Most importantly, they wanted us to act as guardians of the Constitution and thus the liberty and the rights under law of each individual American.
Most exports from Colombia and Peru to the U.S. are free of taxes under a 1991 law easing access to the U.S. market for countries cooperating with us in the war against drugs.
As a practical matter, as an array of Cabinet and subcabinet officers responsible for keeping us safe and enforcing the law have warned the Senate, no source is going to be held accountable under this law.
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