The US Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision Friday on the legality of President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). In a 6-3 decision, the Court held that the IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose tariffs. The IEEPA was enacted in 1977 to address significant [...]
Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday after the Seoul Central District Court found him guilty of leading an insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law on December 3, 2024. The court held that Yoon’s decision to declare martial law and deploy military and police forces against [...]
Four plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to block President Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot “Independence Arch” at Memorial Circle near Arlington National Cemetery. The plaintiffs, Vietnam War veterans Michael Lemmon, Shaun Byrnes, and Jon Gundersen, and retired architectural historian Calder Loth, are represented by the [...]
On February 12, the High Court of Kenya struck down Section 95(1)(b) of the Penal Code as unconstitutional. The Section made it a crime to “create a disturbance in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace,” meaning a person could be arrested for causing public commotion, shouting loudly, or behaving in a way police believed [...]
West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey filed suit against Apple on Thursday, arguing that the company turned a blind eye to iCloud encryption methods that facilitate mass transmission of child pornography. The suit focuses on Apple iCloud and its use of end-to-end encryption, which makes digital files inaccessible to law enforcement. iCloud, which backs up and [...]
On February 11, the US House of Representatives passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act) (H.R. 7296) in a 218-213 vote, marking the latest federal effort to impose stricter voter registration requirements. Sponsored by Representative Chip Roy, the SAVE Act would require prospective voters to show both proof of US citizenship and an [...]
UN experts condemned Israel’s continued attempts to take over the Palestinian West Bank on Wednesday, following approved measures that grants Israel power to purchase land in the occupied territory with almost no limitations. Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, stated: These measures are [...]
UN experts on Wednesday urged member nations to place a higher emphasis on curbing the over-criminalization of women and girls across the globe ahead of 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70). The announcement detailed reports on the dramatic increase in incarceration of women in recent decades. Women’s imprisonment has increased [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a special report Thursday containing Palestinian journalists’ first-hand accounts of torture in Israeli prisons. The stories come from 59 testimonies of released journalists. Forty-eight of them were never charged with a crime, but detained under Israeli policies allowing six-month detentions without charge, renewable indefinitely. Others were charged with [...]
The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) and the UN Support Mission in Libya published a report on Tuesday detailing the systematic human rights violations and abuses suffered by migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Libya. The report homed in on four human rights challenges that these individuals tend to face: (1) illegal and dangerous interceptions [...]
