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Explainer: What are the international community’s responsibilities when a country commits genocide?

February 17, 2021 03:49:52 pm

JURIST’s new Explainer section aims to provide easily digestible explanations of some of the more complex legal issues underpinning our global news coverage. The crime of genocide has reemerged in global headlines since the United States accused Beijing in January of committing genocide against the Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minority groups in western [...]

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Senate adopts cloture rule

On March 8, 1917, the U.S. Senate adopted the cloture rule to limit filibusters. Under Rule 22, two-thirds of Senators could vote to close debate on a given bill, thereby ending an ongoing filibuster. In 1975, that number was lowered to three-fifths of the Senate, which amounts to sixty Senators.

Read a history of filibuster and cloture from the archives of the U.S. Senate.

International Women's Rights Day

March 8 is International Women's Rights and International Peace day, better known as International Women's Day [UN factsheet].
US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was born on March 8, 1841. Learn more about Justice Holmes and pay a virtual visit to his gravesite at Arlington National Cemetary.

Listen to a rare recording of Justice Holmes speaking on NBC Radio on the occasion of his 90th birthday in 1931.

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