Four plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to block President Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot “Independence Arch” at Memorial Circle near Arlington National Cemetery. The plaintiffs, Vietnam War veterans Michael Lemmon, Shaun Byrnes and Jon Gundersen, and retired architectural historian Calder Loth, are represented by the [...]
Australia issued a Temporary Exclusion Order (TEO) on Wednesday to prevent an Australian citizen in detention in northeast Syria from returning home because of security concerns. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke confirmed that the TEO has been issued under the Counter-Terrorism (Temporary Exclusion Orders) Act 2019 (Cth). Minister Burke stated: “I can confirm that one individual [...]
A US federal judge on Wednesday temporarily halted a plan by President Donald Trump’s administration to move 20 former federal death row prisoners to the country’s most restrictive correctional facility. This comes after the judge ruled that the prisoners would likely succeed in their claims of a violation of their Fifth Amendment due process rights. [...]
On Tuesday, a US federal grand jury in Washington DC decided not to indict six Democratic lawmakers on charges related to a video released in November in which lawmakers informed US service personnel of their right and obligation to disobey unlawful orders. “Today, it was a grand jury of anonymous American citizens who upheld the [...]
Amnesty International stated on Wednesday that a Tunisian appeals court upheld and in fact lengthened prison sentences for Ennahda party leaders in the “Conspiracy against State Security 2” case. Amnesty International emphasized that this verdict, which was handed down on Monday, demonstrates the continued use of the judiciary to crack down on the country’s political [...]
A US federal judge in Oregon issued a temporary restraining order on Tuesday that limits when federal officers can use tear gas and other less-lethal force against protesters who assembled near a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon. The lawsuit was filed by protesters and freelance journalists represented by the American Civil [...]
A South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs subcommittee on Tuesday held an hours-long public hearing on legislation that would significantly expand abortion restrictions in the state. The bill remains stalled in committee following the hearing, with no vote to advance it to the full Senate. Senate Bill 323, titled the “Unborn Child Protection Act”, would make [...]
A Tennessee court on Thursday granted a temporary injunction restraining state officials from continuing the deployment of Tennessee National Guard personnel to Memphis. A group of Shelby County and Memphis officials brought the case, arguing that the deployment violates Tennessee’s Military Code by bypassing the statutory conditions required for activating state militia forces. The deployment [...]
A US federal judge on Friday issued a broad preliminary injunction expanding on her earlier order restoring more than $500 million in federal research grants to UCLA. The new ruling blocks the federal government from using a broader “Task Force Policy” to pressure the entire University of California (UC) system with funding suspensions and coercive [...]
Amnesty International and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP) released on Thursday more than 2,700 New York Police Department (NYPD) documents obtained after a five-year lawsuit. The groups say that the documents reveal extensive and discriminatory surveillance practices. The records, ordered to be disclosed by a New York state court in 2022, show repeated use [...]
