The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday declined to reconsider a decision pausing restrictions on the Justice Department’s communications with election officials, leaving the stay in place during ongoing ballot processing and counting. The court’s denial of full-court rehearing followed an 11-judge en banc panel’s 6-5 decision earlier Tuesday to reinstate [...]

Considered as literary genre, the Trump presidency is best described as “farce.” Though the “script” is ludicrous prima facie, it is simultaneously malignant and intermittently murderous. In a no-longer implausible scenario, this president’s simplifying approach to complex strategic problems could trigger unmanageable episodes of nuclear terrorism or nuclear war. There is more. Even on a [...]

International Criminal Court (ICC) President Tomoko Akane addressed the UN General Assembly Monday, calling on the 193 member-nations to take “concrete actions” on sanctions imposed on the ICC by US President Donald Trump on October 9.  Nine of the 18 judges appointed to the court, including Akane, are under sanctions for fulfilling their duties to [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday called on Malian authorities to reveal the fate and whereabouts of politician Mountaga Tall and his son, Cheick Mamadou Tall, six months after both men went missing in Mali’s capital city, Bamako. Tall is a lawyer and the leader of the National Congress for Democratic Initiative (CNID), an opposition party in [...]

Amnesty International on Monday published a letter calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to provide the medical records of a Nicaraguan asylum seeker named as Anabell, who experienced a miscarriage while detained. The letter, addressed to ICE field office director Sam Olson in Kentucky’s Campbell County, demands the medical records so that Anabell may [...]

Do we have kings in this country? Any child could tell you: “No.” Yet modern presidents talk about “inherent powers” like a magician opening Pandora’s box. Does Article II of the Constitution really let them do whatever they think is good for the country, even if Congress never gave them permission? The administration’s pre-election lawsuits [...]

Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. on Monday reached a confidential settlement with two teenage plaintiffs in a California social media addiction lawsuit, averting a bellwether jury trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court two days before opening statements were scheduled to begin. The consolidated trial before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl combined [...]

A federal judge in the District of Columbia on Monday dismissed a case against two former FBI officials charged with lying to Congress during an investigation that focused on whether the FBI had sought to minimize allegations of corruption involving the Biden family and particularly evidence related to Hunter Biden’s laptop. The judge found a [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected without explanation a Trump administration emergency request to overturn a ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to order California election officials to set aside ballots from 20,000 voters who the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges are not citizens. Last week, the Ninth [...]