Brazilian Institutional Security Bureau executive Marcos Goncalves Dias Wednesday resigned following leaked footage of his participation in Brazil’s capital riots. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told reporters from Brazil’s O Tempo that Dias left of his own volition. On January 8, 2023, supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the Brazilian congressional buildings, [...]
The family of a 29-year-old man who was killed as a result of a police beating during a traffic stop in January filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday against the City of Memphis, its police department, and the officers involved. In January, five officers performed a traffic stop on Tyre Nichols and brutally beat him after [...]
A new report released by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) has dubbed 2022 the “Year of the Botched Execution,” shedding light on critical issues that mire the capital punishment process in the US — including racial discrimination and problems with prosecutorial accountability. The report highlights that botched executions and protocol errors have led to [...]
On April 7, US District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued an order suspending the FDA’s approval of mifepristone based on a lawsuit filed against the FDA by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine — an organization comprising four anti-abortion medical associations, and four anti-abortion doctors. The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit then partially blocked [...]
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed Monday proposed a conference in Afghanistan to discuss recognition of the country’s Taliban government. Speaking to an audience at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Mohammed said that the UN is hoping to gather diplomatic envoys in the region in the coming weeks to “have that first meeting [...]
A group of 147 Congressional Republicans Wednesday filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court opposing the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) request for emergency relief in the case concerning the Food And Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. The Supreme Court has temporarily extended the availability of the medication, and their [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday that it secured a $365,000 settlement with General Motors Company (GM) over the company’s alleged discrimination against non-US citizens. The settlement resolves the DOJ’s contention that “there is reasonable cause to believe that engaged in a pattern or practice of unfair documentary practices on the basis of [...]
The US Supreme Court Tuesday held that New Jersey may unilaterally withdraw from the Waterfront Commission Compact, an interstate compact between the two states created to fight crime in the Port of New York and New Jersey. In the case New York v. New Jersey, a unanimous court found that interstate compacts are governed by [...]
A federal grand jury in Florida Tuesday released a superseding indictment against four US citizens and three Russian nationals for conspiring with the Russian government to act as unregistered foreign agents. The conspiracy was called a “multi-year foreign malign influence campaign,” according to a press release from the US Department of Justice (DOJ). The first [...]
Accountability in law is a cornerstone for more stable societies. Both domestically and internationally holding those who step away from the law accountable deters the future perpetration of crimes. Justice mechanisms that work together bolster that effort and enhance efficiencies that breed confidence in assured justice. Since the invasion by the Russian Federation into Ukraine, [...]
