As Georgia Prepares to Execute Willie Pye, a Deceased Lawyer’s Incompetence Looms
It is hard to imagine a man much more marginalized than Willie Pye, who Georgia plans to execute on Mar. 20. Undeniably, the 1993 murder that landed him on death row was heinous. But as his death march nears, it bears considering whether the converging histories of poverty and abuse that defined his youth, paired [...]
Joshua Villanueva is a JURIST Assistant Editor and a 2L at UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), He files this dispatch from San Francisco. The recently-concluded Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ summit, originally designed to address economic challenges in the Asia-Pacific region, found itself overshadowed by the unfolding drama of the US-China relationship. As [...]
“The conflict is long. The conflict is brutal. The conflict is intense,” said David M. Crane, formerly a chief war crimes prosecutor with the UN. Global Accountability Network , an organization Crane founded to monitor atrocities around the globe, has been following the war since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. GAN has meticulously documented [...]
The US Department of the Treasury (DOT) Wednesday announced sanctions against two members of the violent Russian extremist group known as the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM). The DOT imposed sanctions on Stanislav Shevchuk and Alexander Zhuchkovsky pursuant to Executive Order (EO) 13224. EO 13224 “gives the U.S. Government a powerful tool to impede terrorist funding and [...]
The US Department of State on Monday designated the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) as global terrorists, the first time that the department has designated a racially or ethnically motivated terrorist group. RIM is a terrorist group that provides paramilitary-style training to neo-Nazis and white supremacists, and it plays a prominent role in trying to rally [...]
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: Human Rights Watch on Thursday released a report detailing the lack of respect for the rights of intersex individuals in the United States. The Lawyers’ Committee...
A US district court judge in San Jose, California, on Sunday ordered a retrial to determine how much Samsung owes Apple for infringing three iPhone 3Gs patents: "black rectangular front face of a phone with rounded corners," "the rectangular...
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that creates regulatory task forces in every federal agency to look through the regulations and determine which ones "are burdensome to the US economy" and can be removed...
Advocacy groups sue to block Trump order to eliminate regulations
A coalition of advocacy groups filed suit in federal court Monday to challenge a Trump administration executive order aimed at reducing federal regulations. Public Citizen, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the union Communications Workers of America...
50 ACLU affiliates seek information on immigration order's enforcement
Fifty American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) affiliates filed 18 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on Thursday with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to find out how administration officials are interpreting...
