A US judge overturned a lower court's order in order to allow the congregation to use their mosque in Rutherford county, Tennessee. A lower court had previously ruled that the county could not issue an occupancy permit for the mosque, but the representatives of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro sued the county and won the right to use the building just in time for worshipers to gather for the month of Ramadan. Despite ruling in the Islamic Center's favor, county officials stated that they would be unable to complete final inspections that would make the building ready for use. Residents of the community filed a lawsuit against the mosque in 2010 stating that Islam was not a real religion. The US justice department filed a lawsuit in the mosque's favor stating that the county was holding it to different standards than other places of worship.

President George W. Bush issued his first presidential veto, rejecting H.R. 810, Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, a bill to ease restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. In 2007 & 2008 President George W. Bush has vetoed 10 bills. To put this in perspective below is a list of earlier presidents number of vetoes. Woodrow Wilson 44 Warren Harding 6 Calvin Coolidge 50 Herbert Hoover 37 Franklin Roosevelt 635 Harry Truman 250 Dwight Eisenhower 181 John Kennedy 21 Lyndon Johnson 30 Richard Nixon 43 Gerald Ford 66 Jimmy Carter 31 Ronald Reagan 78 George H. W. Bush 44 Bill Clinton 37 George W. Bush 10