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Joining Scalia were Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas. The other dissenters were Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter. Gun rights supporters hailed the decision.

“I consider this the opening salvo in a step-by-step process of providing relief for law-abiding Americans everywhere that have been deprived of this freedom,” said Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association. The NRA will file lawsuits in San Francisco, Chicago and several of its suburbs challenging handgun restrictions there based on Thursday’s outcome. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a leading gun control advocate in Congress, criticized the ruling.

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MADRID, Spain – A court on Friday cleared the way for Spain to extradite a major Argentine “dirty war” suspect back home to face trial in connection with human rights abuses under the military juntas that ruled Argentina in the 1970s and 1980s. The decision by the National Court in the case of Ricardo Miguel Cavallo ends years of legal wrangling in Spain over whether to extradite him or put him on trial here under the principle of universal justice. The court said it had rejected appeals against its decision last month to close the case against Cavallo in Spain, where he was charged with genocide, terrorism and other crimes that took place in Argentina, and instead extradite him. No date for extradition was given.

Cavallo was extradited to Spain from Mexico City in 2003. He had been living there under an assumed identity. A former navy commander in Buenos Aires, Cavallo worked in the Navy Mechanical School – known by its initials in Spanish, ESMA – which became a notorious detention center in Buenos Aires where thousands of prisoners were tortured or executed. Argentina has repealed laws that once granted immunity to military personnel accused of abuses during the junta era.

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This article was first published on on Wednesday March 12 2008. It was last updated at 14:35 on March 12 2008. The leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, Joseph Kony. Photograph: Stuart Price/AP Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, is headed for a confrontation with the international criminal court over its first war crimes indictment after saying he will not send leaders of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to the Hague for trial. Museveni said Joseph Kony, the LRA leader, and his commanders would be brought before traditional courts in Uganda, which emphasise apologies and compensation over punishment, as part of a peace deal to end a 22-year rebellion.

The conflict was marked by the abduction of children for use as combatants, mass rape of women and the murder of civilians. LRA rebels also mutilated people by cutting off their lips and tongues. The Ugandan president said local trials were the wish of the victims and traditional leaders in the areas hit by the civil war. “What we have agreed with our people is that they should face traditional justice, which is more compensatory than a retributive system,” Museveni said on a visit to London.

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