US President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to bar a Manhattan grand jury subpoena for his tax returns and financial records. This follows the denial by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday of the president’s petition for a rehearing en banc on the subpoena. In [...]
US Senators Chris Coons and Mike Lee introduced a new bill Thursday that aims to limit federal use of facial recognition technology. The bill, titled The Facial Recognition Technology Warrant Act of 2019, was introduced in the US Senate in an effort to “make sure that law enforcement has the tools necessary to keep us [...]
The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday upheld a 2009 Delhi High Court order that the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) falls under the definition of “public authority” under the Right to Information Act (RTI). Therefore, plaintiff has the right to information under Section 2(j), in the form of declarations of assets [...]
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied both applications for a stay of execution for Georgia death row in mate Ray Jefferson Cromartie. He was set to be executed by lethal injection at 7:00 PM on Wendesday but was delayed while the applications were considered; he was executed at 10:59 PM. Cromartie consistently maintained his [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday authorized an investigation into allegations that Myanmar has committed crimes against humanity in its treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority. Myanmar is outside of the ICC’s jurisdiction, which is limited to those states that are a party to the Rome Statute treaty. However, its neighbor Bangladesh is a [...]
London’s high court on Wednesday granted Royal Mail an injunction preventing the first national postal strike in more than a decade. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) overwhelmingly voted last month in favor of action, with 97 percent of members voting in favor and a turnout of nearly 76 percent. The vote came in [...]
Public impeachment hearings in the inquiry into US President Donald Trump began Wednesday. Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff opened the first day of hearings by establishing the stakes of the investigation. Schiff began by calling Trump’s actions—seeking inquiries into political rival Joe Biden through the Ukrainian government—into question, stating, “If this is not impeachable conduct, what [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Wednesday denied President Donald Trump’s petition for a rehearing en banc of his challenge of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s subpoena of his tax returns. Earlier this year, a three-judge panel of the appeals court had upheld a lower court’s ruling that [...]
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) Wednesday claiming that the WEC violated state law when it failed to deactivate approximately 234,000 voters. These voters had been flagged as possibly relocated based on records from the Department of Motor Vehicles and the US Postal Service. [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday reversed, in part, a decision barring two religious schools in Florida from conveying prayers over a loudspeaker before a state championship football game. In 2015 Cambridge Christian School and University Christian School faced off in the Division 2A State football game. The football game was [...]
