New Detainee Filing from Justice Department: Lyle Denniston reports on SCOTUSblog that the Justice Department has made its final filing before the D.C. Circuit Court in its case to keep 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs from entering the United States. Previous posts on October 24th and October 7th, give a simple history of the procedure of the case. In its final plea the Justice Department argued the Executive Branch has authority to hold aliens in detention even if they are not considered enemies of the U.S. According to Denniston, the government's reply brief will conclude briefing on whether federal District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina was wrong to find that the 17 detainees were entitled to release under federal habeas law, and that they must be brought to the U.S. to live here at least temporarily. Denniston reports, that the reply brief put new emphasis on the assertion that “the Government retains the sovereign authority, independent of the authority to detain enemy combatants, to hold [the Uighurs] incident to barring them from the United States, and pending efforts to resettle them elsewhere….It is fully lawful for the Government to hold [them] on this second, independent legal basis.” A three judge panel will old a hearing on Nov. 24, and a nine judge panel is deciding on a plea from the Uighurs on whether to take the case from the panel and decide it en banc.

Craiglist Makes Move To Stop Prostitution: At Wall Street Journal Blog, Dan Slater reports that yesterday, Craigslist "agreed to crack down on ads posted by prostitutes, responding to government complaints that the site has become a free clearinghouse for illegal sexual services." The Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press also reported on the agreement. Apparently, Craigslist has agreed, in compliance with requests from the AG's of 40 states, to require every erotic-service poster on the site to provide a working phone number and pay a fee with a valid credit card.The site will then be able to provide that information in response to law-enforcement subpoenas, creating a “roadmap” that can be used to track prostitutes and sex traffickers. The Attorney General of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, reportedly brokered the agreement. Blumenthal also told the Wall Street Journal that Craigslist had sued 14 software and Internet companies that help ad posters circumvent its safeguards against inappropriate content and illegal activity.

Government Gives Tribes $3M To Establish Sex Offenders Registry: At Sex Crimes yesterday, Corey Rayburn Yung reported that the Department of Justice will award $50 million in grants to assist Native American communities, with $3 million of that going to establish sex offender registry and notification programs as part of the Adam Walsh Act. The grant is part of the Department's "technical assistance and support to Indian Country in 2008." The Department met twice with tribes this summer to set-up programs. One meeting discussed the tracking of sex offenders, while the other discussedresearch on violence against Indian women. These programs are additional to last year's initiative which selected ten tribal sites to serve as pilot communities as part of the Department's AMBER Alert in Indian Country Initiative.