The US Senate voted 70-30 on Wednesday to confirm Merrick Garland to be attorney general. Twenty Republicans joined all 50 Democrats in confirming the nomination. Garland was a federal prosecutor involved in the Oklahoma City Bombing investigation before being appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit where he has [...]
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans into law on Tuesday in the hope of having the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade. The bill would outlaw abortion in the state in all cases except to save the life of a pregnant woman in a medical emergency, with no [...]
The Attorneys General of Arizona and Montana filed an amended a joint lawsuit Monday alleging that the Biden administration has violated immigration and administrative law. The Attorney General of Florida filed a similar lawsuit on Tuesday. All three complaints allege that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has disregarded its responsibilities and that changes in [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Police and soldiers of the Myanmar military junta continued aggressive security operations Wednesday, arresting hundreds of peaceful protesters and harassing a Yangon neighborhood just hours before the UN Security Council adopted a unanimous statement condemning the use of violence against peaceful protesters. In two different deployments Wednesday, security forces moved into two [...]
The US State Department reinstated sanctions for Israeli mining magnate Dan Gertler on Monday, overturning an agreement made in the last week of the Trump administration. Gertler was sanctioned in 2017 over accusations of corruption and exploitation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The US accused him of using his personal relationship with former [...]
Twitter launched a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday, alleging he “abused his authority as the highest law-enforcement officer in the state” by unconstitutionally retaliating against the social media site for its decision to permanently ban former president Donald Trump from its platform following the January insurrection in Washington, DC. The 19-page [...]
The European Parliament voted Tuesday to waive the immunity of former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and two other Catalan separatist MEPs, Antoni Comin and Clara Ponsati, for their role in organizing a 2017 Independence referendum for the Spanish region of Catalonia. Puigdemont’s immunity was lifted by 400 votes to 248, while those of Comin and [...]
Colombia’s Ombudsman Office reported Monday that more than 11,000 individuals have been displaced by fighting between Colombian armed groups so far in 2021. The fighting has been due to crime gangs, such as National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas and former members of the FARC rebels, fighting each other and armed forces for control of Uraba [...]
China’s human rights abuses against the Uyghur ethnic minority group have breached the 1948 Genocide Convention, according to a Tuesday report from the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy. International law experts say that the Chinese government has breached Article II of the Convention, which provides that genocide requires “intent to destroy, in whole or [...]
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law Monday legislation that makes it more difficult to vote early, among other voting process changes. Formerly under Iowa law, the early voting period was 29 days. Mail-in ballots had to be postmarked by Election Day and arrive by noon on the Monday following the election in order to [...]
