The US Supreme Court refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago on Tuesday. In an unsigned order, the court rejected the administration’s petition to overturn a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) issued in October by Judge April Perry of the Northern District of Illinois. Perry had said “there is “no [...]

A US federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to provide due process to Venezuelan migrants who have been removed from the US and flown to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). District Court for the District of Columbia Judge James Boasberg concluded that US President Donald Trump’s administration’s deportation of 137 Venezuelan migrants to [...]

The Kuala Lumpur High Court rejected Monday former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak’s bid to serve the remainder of his graft sentence under house arrest. The case centered on the validity of a supplementary order issued by former king Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah. The order allowed Najib to serve the remainder of his [...]

Chinese officials condemned the US seizure of Venezuelan oil tankers headed for China on Monday, calling the act a “serious violation of international law.” “Venezuela has the right to independently develop mutually beneficial cooperation with other countries,” foreign ministry spokesperson, Lin Jian, said during a press conference. Jian also stated that China opposes unilateral enforcement [...]

This dispatch was co-authored by Divyabharthi Baradhan (JURIST Staff, Malaysia) and Sarisha Harikrishna (Queen’s University Belfast School of Law, United Kingdom). In a landmark ruling, the Permanent People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan (the tribunal) on December 11 in the Hague, Netherlands, found that the Taliban de facto authorities have committed crimes against humanity under [...]

The state of judicial independence in Romania has come into the spotlight following one of the biggest corruption scandals in the country’s history and two weeks of mass protests in Bucharest calling for judicial reform, with tens of thousands taking to the streets. Why are Romanians taking to the streets? The demonstrations were sparked by [...]

Editor’s note: This is Day 8 of JURIST’s coverage of Mangione’s suppression hearings. Read Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4. Luigi Mangione is accused of fatally shooting Brian Thompson, CEO of medical insurance company UnitedHealthcare, on December 4, 2024, outside a Manhattan hotel. He faces a nine-count indictment including second-degree murder, where [...]

US President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he will appoint a special envoy for Greenland, prompting responses from Denmark and Greenland leaders, expressing worry over potential US expansionist aims and threats to territorial integrity. This is an unusual move, as Greenland is not an independent country but an autonomous territory of Denmark. Trump made the [...]

Italy’s Competition Authority (AGCM) announced on Monday that it has fined the Apple corporation €98.6 million ($116 million) for imposing unfair conditions on third-party app developers through the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy. This decision centers on Apple’s requirement, beginning in April 2021, that developers display an ATT consent prompt before tracking user data across [...]