The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear challenges to former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s withdrawal from plea agreements that would have spared three men accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks from the death penalty. The justices denied petitions from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Mustafa al Hawsawi, and a separate petition from [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Department of Justice v. McNutt, a challenge to federal restrictions on home distilling that tests the scope of the constitutional authority of Congress to protect tax revenue. The case asks whether prohibiting the production of distilled spirits in homes and adjoining sheds or yards is a [...]

Sam Bankole is a JURIST correspondent based in the UK and a graduate in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford. Andy Burnham, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, made a powerful and emotionally charged speech, promising “Hope Again” for the UK during the recent Labour Party conference. His speech marked a shift in British [...]

Tracy Harris is a JURIST contributor and a third-year student at the Norman A. Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University, and served as a judicial clerk with the Supreme Court of Namibia this summer as part of the inaugural Zaytoun clerkship cohort. This summer, the inaugural cohort of the Joseph E. Zaytoun International Judicial Clerkship [...]

Voimo Tamang is a third-year law student at National Law College and a JURIST correspondent based in Kathmandu, Nepal. On September 24, Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah addressed the 81st United Nations General Assembly to bring the country’s devastating Bhotekoshi–Trishuli floods to the center of the international climate debate. Describing the disaster as a warning [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday allowed the federal government resume checking voters’ citizenship against Social Security records, reviving a system a lower court ruled violated privacy laws. The decision comes less than six weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm congressional elections. The unsigned opinion paused a June 22 order by the US District Court [...]

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance on Friday found Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan, and the pair’s now-disbanded  Hong Kong Alliance, guilty of a “subversion” offense under the Beijing-imposed National Security Law (NSL). They each face up to 10 years in prison. Three NSL-designated judges unanimously ruled that the defendants’ advocacy for “the end of [...]

The Hong Kong Court of Appeal on Monday granted leave to 11 applicants to appeal their national security convictions to the city’s apex court. The applicants were among the 45 pro-democracy activists who were convicted of subversion in November 2024 for their alleged roles in the July 2020 unofficial primary election. The appellate court sided [...]

US President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday directing federal agencies to withhold citizenship from certain children born on US soil, reviving a policy the Supreme Court rejected five weeks earlier and setting up a fresh test of how far a president may narrow a constitutional guarantee by decree. The orders follow the court’s [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. As India’s student march enters its third consecutive day, the national capital of Delhi has been swarmed by thousands of “cockroaches.” The term is evocative, having been reclaimed by India’s younger generation in response to remarks made by Chief Justice [...]