Detained South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol denied on Tuesday that he ordered the military to drag lawmakers out of parliament during a short-lived attempt to impose martial law. Having skipped the first two of five planned hearings in his impeachment trial, Yoon made his first appearance before South Korea’s Constitutional Court, where approximately 4,000 [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a challenge to Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot date requirements. The plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit include the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union and local voting organizations. They initiated the suit in 2022 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered county election boards to reject mail-in ballots [...]

Attorneys general from 22 states filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging US President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship. Central to the lawsuit is the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US. The clause was last interpreted in 1898 in United States [...]

The European Commission and the European Board for Digital Services welcomed on Monday the integration of the new “Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech online” into the Digital Services Act (DSA) to guarantee the safety of users. The revised code aims to strengthen the fight against harmful content online according to EU law [...]

President Donald Trump enacted an executive order on Monday, entitled “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government.” This action seeks to tackle abuses of authority in federal law enforcement and intelligence organizations. The directive forms part of a wider effort by the Trump administration to eliminate what it calls politically driven enforcement actions that sap [...]

Ghana President John Dramani Mahama established a Constitutional Review Committee on Sunday to address gaps in implementing the 1992 constitution and continue the work of a former Constitutional Review Committee in 2010. According to a press release, the Constitutional Review Committee was created to “enhance democratic governance within the country.” Professor Kwasi Prempeh, executive director [...]

Amnesty International’s deputy director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Denis Krivosheev said on Monday that the sentences handed down to participants in May protests against the law on “foreign influence” in Georgia demonstrate the government’s brutality against the opposition, calling them a “parody of justice.” Krivosheev criticized the police for the mistreatment of protesters [...]

The ACLU and several other rights organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday with a New Hampshire District Court which claims that a Trump administration executive order ending birthright citizenship for babies born in the US to parents who entered the country illegally is unconstitutional. The lawsuit contends that the executive order violates the 14th Amendment [...]

New South Wales (NSW) Premier Chris Minns stated in a press conference on Sunday that he intends to strengthen the Australian state’s hate speech laws. Premier Minns’ statement follows a string of antisemitic attacks across Australia. Premier Minns indicated that the Labor party would table to discuss hate speech laws and protest laws when parliament [...]

US President Donald Trump issued pardons Monday to around 1,500 people convicted for their roles in the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack, where rioters stormed the legislative building seeking to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election. Alongside the full pardons, Trump commuted the sentences of 14 other January 6 defendants, including Oath Keepers leader [...]