ACLU filed a lawsuit Monday requesting access to COVID-19 booster shots for seven individuals (“the plaintiffs”) detained by immigration authorities. The lawsuit is aimed at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). According to the Complaint, the seven plaintiffs have been denied the booster shot, despite multiple requests. The plaintiffs [...]
US Attorney General Merrick Garland Monday released the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) new National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking, signaling a new executive effort to disrupt human trafficking networks and assist victims of trafficking. The new strategy draws its mandate from several pieces of legislation, including the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 [...]
Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. In this dispatch, one of our law students reflects on Tuesday’s self-immolation of a young Myanmar man in Mandalay protesting electricity [...]
A federal judge in the US District Court for the Central District of California Monday ruled against former Los Angeles City Councilman José Huizar, allowing evidence collected from a 2016 FBI search warrant at Huizar’s trial. Huizar argued that there were issues with the FBI search warrant. Huizar served on the Los Angeles City Council [...]
US ambassadors and lawmakers have vowed to take action against Russia should the situation in Ukraine progress any further. The UN Security Council gathered on Monday to discuss Russia’s recent massing of troops along the Ukraine border and fears of invasion. In her remarks before the UN Security Council, US Ambassador to the UN Linda [...]
The African Union (AU) Monday suspended Burkina Faso in response to the January 24 military coup ousting President Roch Marc Christian Kabore. The Peace and Security Council, the AU’s standing decision-making organ for the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts, announced its decision “to suspend the participation of Burkina Faso in all AU activities until [...]
