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A Washington D.C. jury acquitted Michael Sussman, a former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney, of making false statements to the FBI Tuesday. This concludes a controversial 3-year investigation by Special Prosecutor John Durham. Deliberation began last Friday and ended at 11:05am Tuesday, taking a total of six hours. Durham was appointed by former Attorney General William [...]

Gambia’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dawda A. Jallow, Wednesday confirmed governmental approval to prosecute former President Yahya Jammeh for alleged atrocities. Minister Jallow relayed the confirmation while releasing the government’s white paper on the report of the country’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). The TRRC was constituted in 2018 to investigate the [...]

As the horrors of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continue to unfold, world leaders are calling for Russian President Vladimir Putin to face prosecution before an international tribunal. Professor David M. Crane of Syracuse University College of Law has the rare distinction of having previously prosecuted a standing president in his role as Chief Prosecutor of [...]

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faced her final day of questioning at her confirmation hearing Wednesday. Thursday will conclude the confirmation hearings with testimony from the American Bar Association and witnesses. The Senate Judiciary Committee will then vote on whether Jackson’s nomination will go to the full Senate for consideration. Jackson continued to answer questions Wednesday [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for some three weeks. Here, 1L Mélanie Cantin reports.  The Confederate flag and Nazi swastika were spotted on the first weekend the Freedom Convoy arrived in Ottawa, but casual onlookers [...]

Knowing what you know now about the Holocaust, if you were given a chance to go back in time and attend the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, would you? Would you willingly support the propagandistic rebranding efforts of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime? Or would you do everything in your power not only to [...]

On November 4, 2021, US Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) announced the introduction of S.3175 – 117th Congress (2021-2022): Advancing American Artificial Intelligence Innovation Act of 2021 to Congress. Although the stated goal of S. 3175 is to ensure private companies have access to accurate data so they can better meet Department of Defense [...]

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” – John F. Kennedy Fukuyama’s “The End of History” paper claimed that the western liberal democracy is the final form of the human-governance evolution. His argument relied on the Democratic Peace Theory, originating from the early 1700s, which states that most democratic [...]

In their final report released Friday, the Gambia Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) called for the prosecution of former President Yahya Jammeh and co-perpetrators for 44 cases of murder, torture, and rape. The TRRC was established to investigate crimes committed in Gambia under the leadership of Jammeh from 1994 to 2017. The commission’s report resulted [...]

Jacob Chansley, the QAnon Shaman, was sentenced to 41 months in prison on Wednesday for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot. Chansley was among the first 30 individuals in the building on January 6 and has been described in court documents as “shirtless, wearing a Viking hat with fur and horns, covered in [...]