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Deputy Prime Minister of Malta Chris Fearne submitted his resignation on Friday in a formal letter addressed to Prime Minister Robert Abela amidst Fearne’s involvement in a fraud scandal. He also requested the retraction of his nomination for European commissioner. Fearne indicated in the letter that he was certain that the court, upon investigation, will [...]

The Attorney General’s Office of Peru announced on Friday the initiation of an investigation regarding President Dina Boluarte’s decision to disband a special police unit that was probing her brother, who was detained earlier that day. The office stated that preliminary proceedings had been initiated against President Boluarte and Minister of the Interior Walter Ortiz [...]

The Federal Prosecutor General authorized on Tuesday the search of the Brussels offices of Maximilian Krah, a member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and EU Parliament. Krah, who is the party’s lead candidate for the forthcoming European elections in June, is regarded as a pivotal witness in the investigation targeting an employee accused of [...]

The Internal Security Agency of Poland announced Monday that it initiated an investigation into former judge Szmydt Tomasz, who fled to Belarus and claimed asylum earlier that day. The investigation is regarding the former judge’s access to classified information. Tomasz communicated his resignation from a Warsaw Provincial Administrative Court in a press conference run by [...]

Thousands of people gathered in Debrecen for a rally on Sunday organized by Péter Magyar, whose new Tisza party is the leading contender to current Prime Minister Orbán Viktor’s Fidesz party in the upcoming European parliamentary elections. The theme of Sunday’s rally was women’s rights and issues and was one stop in a series of protests [...]

Hungarian opposition politician and lawyer Péter Magyar gathered with thousands of demonstrators Friday before the nation’s Interior Ministry to demand the resignation of the head of the institution, Sándor Pintér. Magyar, the former husband of the resigned Minister of Justice Judit Varga, called for the protest on Facebook earlier that day and demanded Pintér claim responsibility [...]

Marissa Zupancic is JURIST’s Washington DC Correspondent, a JURIST Senior Editor and a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She’s stationed in Washington during her Semester in DC. Today I attended oral arguments at the US Supreme Court for Trump v. US, a case concerning whether a president has absolute immunity after they [...]

The Madrid Prosecutor’s Office in Spain asked the court on Thursday to drop the case against Begoña Gomez, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s wife, for the alleged crime of peddling influence and corruption, sources told Spanish news source EFE. The prosecutors appealed a local court’s decision to open preliminary investigations into the links between Begoña Gomez [...]

The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. US on Thursday in a case entailing alleged federal election interference in 2020. Trump is enmeshed in multiple criminal and civil cases as he prepares to run for reelection in November. This will be the second time this term a case concerning former President [...]

Anne Brorhilker announced Monday she was stepping down from her position as head of a team of 30 prosecutors in Cologne, Germany. Brorhilker has been involved in investigating the cum-ex scandal since 2013, which has led to more than 1700 individuals being accused and has resulted in billions of euros in costs. The scandal involved [...]