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Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who lived in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she is currently a 3L.  Thousands of Israelis took to the streets across Israel on Sunday to protest following the recent recovery of the bodies of six hostages from tunnels in Rafah. [...]

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© JURIST // Sharon Basch

Sharon Basch is a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and a JURIST staff correspondent in Washington DC this summer.   Late last week,  World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC  held its Justice and the Rule of Law Global Forum, organized in recognition of the fact that “ustice institutions and the rule [...]

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© JURIST // Sharon Basch

Sharon Basch is a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and a JURIST staff correspondent in Washington DC this summer.  Wednesday morning I attended a US Senate Budget Committee hearing entitled “Making Wall Street Pay its Fair Share: Raising Revenue, Strengthening Our Economy.” The hearing was called to discuss tax policy [...]

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© JURIST // Sharon Basch

Sharon Basch is a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and a JURIST staff correspondent in Washington DC this summer.  On Tuesday I attended a hearing called by the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to examine women’s freedoms, focusing on access to abortions across the United States [...]

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Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who lived in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she is currently a 3L. War cast a long shadow on Israel’s 76th Independence Day, which officially began on the evening of May 13th. Far more quiet and certainly more somber than [...]

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The European Commission reversed course late Monday evening as it retracted a decision to immediately suspend funding for Palestine over Hamas’s ongoing attacks on Israel. Janez Lenarčič, the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management posted a retraction of the decision following criticism from some European political figures. Oliver Varhelyi, European Commissioner for Neighborhood [...]

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© Amos Ben Gershom, Israel Government Press Office

Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who lived in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she is currently a 2L.  As of early Sunday morning, Israel has confirmed over 600 deaths, 2,000+ injured, an estimated 100+ kidnapped, and hundreds more missing following Saturday’s surprise attack by Hamas. [...]

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Israel’s Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday over an “incapacitation” amendment, which imposed restrictions on the government’s ability to claim that the prime minister is unable to fulfill his duties. The government passed the amendment back in March, ahead of Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu’s corruption trials. The “incapacitation” amendment at the center of Thursday’s hearing [...]

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© JURIST / John-Michael Graves

The Israeli Supreme Court convened Tuesday morning to hear petitions against a judicial reform amendment which would annul the country’s reasonableness standard. The reforms, introduced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year, continue to fuel nationwide protests. All 15 Israeli Supreme Court justices gathered to preside over the hearing. Usually, cases are heard by a [...]

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A US federal grand jury indicted five Memphis Police Department officers involved in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols on Tuesday on four new federal criminal charges. The same officers also face Tennessee state charges under a grand jury six-count indictment handed down earlier this year. All five have already pleaded not guilty to the [...]

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