Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School.  The US Supreme Court heard over two-and-a-half hours of oral argument Wednesday in a closely watched case testing whether the President may use emergency economic powers to impose tariffs [...]

US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he has ordered the Pentagon, or the “Department of War,” to prepare contingency plans for potential military action in Nigeria. Trump alleged that the Nigerian government has failed to protect Christian communities from violent extremist attacks. Trump stated on social media: “If the Nigerian Government continues to [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday called on Southeast Asian and global leaders gathering for the ASEAN Summit and East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur later this month to take a firm stand against Myanmar’s military junta and its plan to hold national elections in December, describing the process as a “sham” that would further [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday released Left Behind in the Storm, a report showing that Bangladesh is failing to ensure equal access to safe water and sanitation for Dalit women sanitation workers in Khulna and Satkhira as climate impacts intensify. The report cited April–June field interviews with 22 workers, site visits to reverse-osmosis points and tube [...]

Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, D.C. Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School.  There is a certain intensity to watching US Supreme Court arguments live that recordings simply cannot capture. The subtle shifts in the justices’ expressions and the way they lean [...]

The UN on Friday warned that millions of Haitians are facing severe food insecurity as armed groups continue to expand their territorial control around the country, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) hunger report. The data paints a dire picture: 5.7 million people, over half the population, are now classified in [...]

Amnesty International on Friday urged Moroccan authorities to immediately halt the use of excessive force against protesters, and to launch an independent investigation into the recent violent crackdown that has left at least three people dead, dozens injured, and more than 400 arrested across the country since late September. The rights organization said it had [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Wolford v. Lopez, a constitutional challenge to Hawaii’s 2023 law restricting where individuals with concealed carry permits may bring firearms. The case, which the justices added to their docket following their annual “long conference,” could have sweeping implications for gun rights and state-level firearm regulations nationwide. [...]

The United Nations Security Council on Saturday evening reimposed broad sanctions and restrictions on Iran, after determining that Tehran had engaged in “significant non-performance” of its nuclear obligations. The sanctions were restored under the snapback provision of UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which endorsed the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). That mechanism allowed [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday sided with President Donald Trump’s administration in a dispute over foreign aid funding, granting the president’s request to freeze $4 billion in appropriations that Congress had already enacted but the administration sought to rescind. The court’s majority stayed a lower court ruling that had directed the administration to obligate [...]