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The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic Friday accused the French police of using violence and excessive force against protestors demonstrating opposition against French President Emmanual Macron’s circumventing an outvoted pension reform bill increasing the retirement age from 62 to 64, without a parliamentary vote. The Council of Europe is Europe’s leading human rights [...]

Scattered protests in France continued Friday, following Thursday’s mass demonstrations over nationwide opposition to President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reform bill. UK King Charles III also cancelled his scheduled visit to France on March 26 early Friday morning. Macron stated in a news conference that the visit “would have prompted incidents” he characterized as “detestable.”  [...]

US Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Rick Scott (R-FL) Wednesday introduced new legislation that would bar Congress members from collecting pensions funded through taxes if they receive a felony conviction tied to their position as a congressperson. Rosen and Scott introduced the bipartisan No Congressionally-Obligated Recurring Revenue Used As Pensions To Incarcerated Officials Now (NO [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron Monday survived a vote of no confidence by a slim margin of nine votes. The vote against Macron’s cabinet was sparked by the President’s decision to bypass Parliament last week, “forcing through” a pension reform to raise the age of retirement from 62 to 64. On March 12, the bill was [...]

Protests across France Friday escalated after French President Emmanuel Macron “forced” through a pension reform bill without a parliamentary vote. French authorities arrested more than 300 people during spontaneous protests in opposition to the bill to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 in an attempt to preserve the nation’s budget. In Paris, thousands of demonstrators [...]

The Supreme Court of India on Monday ordered a special constitutional panel of five judges to consider a series of petitions related to same-sex marriage. The 15 petitions at issue were filed by same-sex couples and LGBTQ+ activists between 2020 and 2022. Collectively, they aim to change provisions in the secular Special Marriage Act (SMA) [...]

The French Senate Saturday voted in favour of President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. The reform bill, which will raise the legal age of retirement to 64, was passed by the French Parliament’s upper house with 195 votes for the reform and 112 against. Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced, “After a hundred hours of debate, the [...]

Protestors in France Saturday demonstrated for a seventh day against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform plan, which has been widely disputed across the country since his announcement of the plan in January. According to the Confederation of Labor (CGT), a national federation of French trade unions, hundreds of thousands of employees, young people, and retirees [...]

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is openly threatening to force a default on our nation’s debts unless President Biden agrees to a so far unspecified list of spending cuts to federal programs. But the president has a formidable constitutional argument against this irresponsible display of brinkmanship. It is disappointing that he has so far declined, at [...]

Australian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Australia. Gwendolyn Devoy is a law student at Newcastle University. She files this dispatch from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.  After the closing of the third block of hearings of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme earlier this month, it has [...]