US President Joe Biden granted clemency Thursday to nearly 1,500 Americans in the largest single-day use of presidential clemency powers in modern US history. The action includes sentence commutations for approximately 1,500 people who were moved to home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with pardons for 39 individuals convicted of non-violent crimes. The bulk [...]

As his term draws to a close, US President Joe Biden issued a sweeping pardon Sunday for his son Hunter Biden, covering multiple federal criminal charges including tax evasion and firearms violations. Previously, Biden and his staff had stated unequivocally that the president did not plan to pardon his son. The pardon is expansive in [...]

In the early morning hours Wednesday, following a historically contentious presidential election, Donald Trump announced his victory before a crowd of supporters in Florida, and vowed to “seal up” the US borders to ensure immigrants are only able to enter the country legally. Trump took the stage at approximately 2:30 am, having attained 267 of [...]

The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily halted the execution of Robert Roberson, who was scheduled to be put to death that evening for the 2002 death of his two-year-old daughter. The court’s ruling comes in response to an unprecedented move by the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence, which had subpoenaed Roberson to testify [...]

US District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan on Thursday approved the release of redacted evidence against former President Donald Trump in his federal election interference case. The order’s timing is significant; it comes less than one month prior to the 2024 elections, in which Trump is the Republican candidate, and in the aftermath of a US [...]

Missouri carried out the execution on Tuesday of a man whose capital conviction had been marred by controversies over insufficient evidence, compromised witness testimony, and racial discrimination. In a statement, the Innocence Project, an advocacy group devoted to exonerating wrongfully convicted death row inmates, wrote of Williams’ passing: Mr. Williams’ story echoes that of too [...]

US authorities on Friday announced new sanctions against RT amid sprawling accusations that the state-run media conglomerate has engaged in covert influence operations and election interference on a global scale. “RT moved beyond being simply a media outlet and has been an entity with cyber capabilities. It is also engaged in information operations, covert influence, [...]

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) released a report Monday assessing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives following a June 2023 Supreme Court ruling that banned race-conscious college admissions and heightened scrutiny of workplace diversity efforts nationwide. DEI efforts proliferated across the US after the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man [...]

A US federal judge on Tuesday ruled that key parts of a lawsuit accusing Harvard University of failing to protect Jewish students from harassment and discrimination can move forward. The lawsuit was filed in January by a recent graduate of the Harvard Divinity School, Alexander Kestenbaum, alongside Students Against Antisemitism, Inc. (SAA), an advocacy group. [...]

This article includes reporting by JURIST’s Alumni Engagement Coordinator Sean Nolan Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden has escalated his investigation into billionaire Harlan Crow’s tax treatment of luxury trips provided to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, according to a letter sent to Crow’s attorney on Monday. In the letter, Wyden, a Democratic Senator from Oregon, expressed [...]