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A New York appellate court denied an effort by former US President Donald Trump on Monday to delay the start of his upcoming falsified documents criminal case. The New York Times reported earlier on Monday that Trump filed several challenges against Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the falsified documents trial. With the appellate court’s [...]

A US federal judge in New York denied a motion to dismiss on Thursday from Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) in his pending conspiracy case. In the order, Judge Sidney Stein found that the constitutional challenges Menendez raised in his motion did not cover the charges. Menendez pleaded not guilty to the four charges—which alleged that [...]

A former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant was charged Thursday for falsifying reports that US President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, each received $5 million in bribes from a Ukrainian energy company. According to the indictment, Alexander Smirnov reported to an FBI Agent in March 2017 that he had been in contact [...]

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. After sitting in the Supreme Court last Wednesday to hear the oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson, a case brought by Colorado voters seeking [...]

The US Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments this week in a landmark case that will determine whether states are entitled to remove former president and current Republican frontrunner Donald Trump from election ballots over his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, when the US Capitol was stormed by protesters. In anticipation of the [...]

Election officials in Russia announced Friday that they had found errors in the paperwork submitted by prominent opposition politician and anti-war proponent, Boris Nadezhdin, after he provided the signatures of over 100,000 supporters, in an effort to secure his candidacy for the March elections. The announcement by the Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission [...]

Immigration is one of the hottest hot button issues going into the 2024 US presidential election. It has divided Americans, and the Republican party continues to go to extremes on the matter, with some 81% of GOP voters in the Iowa primary agreeing with former president Donald Trump’s description of immigrants as “poisoning the blood [...]

India’s economic investigation agency, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), informed the Kerala state High Court Monday that the scam at Karuvannur Service Cooperative Bank was orchestrated by leaders of the state’s ruling party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)). The affidavit filed by the ED asserts that CPI(M) party committees were involved in maintaining accounts [...]

The world watched as Taiwanese voters cast their ballots to elect their new president on Saturday, the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) Lai Ching-te, Taiwan’s current Vice President.   The 2024 election poses a challenge for Taiwan, as the nation strives to maintain the status quo and its degree of autonomy as China escalates its military actions [...]

Michigan Supreme Court will not block former US President Trump from appearing on the state’s primary ballot after a group of plaintiffs brought a challenge to disqualify him based on Section 3 of the US Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment. The court stated that they are “not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this [...]