Plaintiffs in Japan are seeking a clear ruling on whether the country’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. Delivering signatures to the Supreme Court Monday, plaintiffs called for an unambiguous decision for legalization of same-sex marriage. Japan is currently the only G7 country where same-sex marriage is illegal. The case before Japan’s Supreme Court is [...]

US President Donald Trump nominated Todd Blanche Monday to the position of the country’s 83rd attorney general. Blanche has served as acting attorney general since the resignation of Pam Bondi. He is now in line for the full time position pending Senate confirmation. Blanche began his legal career as a paralegal in the criminal division [...]

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to establish government oversight of emerging artificial intelligence technologies. Section 3 of the order calls for developing and maintaining a “classified benchmarking process to assess the advanced cyber capabilities of AI models.” Specifically, the administration wants to determine which models constitute a “covered frontier model,” a [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a Notice of Appeal with the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Monday in a case seeking personal information regarding Massachusetts voters. Following the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s refusal to turn over the information, the administration filed a lawsuit. In the complaint, the administration argued that [...]