Federal agents Monday arrested a Texas woman for allegedly calling and threatening US District Court for the Southern District of Florida judge Aileen Cannon. Cannon currently oversees former President Donald Trump’s legal disputes around documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago, Florida residence and appointed a special master to review documents in the case on September 5. [...]

The Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Monday proposed a 13-point plan to close Guantánamo Bay prison. Co-chairs Claire Finkelstein and Harvey Rishikof complied a diverse analysis of the prison to create a proposal that is both comprehensive and nonpartisan. Among the report’s 13 recommendations are a proposal [...]

The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) Monday announced an investigation into Entain Group Pty Ltd (Entain) to review compliance with Australian laws. AUSTRAC is the Australian agency “responsible for detecting, deterring and disrupting criminal abuse of the financial system.” This agency has the aim to stop organised and serious financial crime. Entain’s website [...]

Justin Lindsay is a US national staff correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He served 10 years as an Officer in the United States Army. The US-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a report last week identifying hundreds of American law enforcement, military, and state-level elected officials as [...]

Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Kenya. She reports from Nairobi.   A war is currently going on Kenya social media. It’s a war between those who are in support of parastatals taking the forefront in Kenya’s economy and those who believe that both parastatals and private owned establishments should work together to further [...]

Human Rights Watch Monday reported that the Egyptian government is severely curtailing environmental groups’ ability to carry out independent policy, advocacy and field work essential to protecting the country’s natural environment. The report comes as Egypt prepares to host the 2022 UN climate conference (COP27) in November. Human Rights Watch conducted interviews with staff members [...]

The Varansi Court ruled Monday that a suit seeking the right to worship Hindu deities inside Gyanvapi Mosque Complex is not barred by any provisions of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991. The plaintiffs argued the existence of Hindu deities at the land in dispute and that the principle of “first in existence” [...]

North Korea passed a law Friday enshrining its right to use pre-emptive nuclear strikes. This legislation arose in response to Western countries’ efforts toward denuclearisation negotiations, and follows the UN treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). State-controlled Korea Central New Agency (KCNA) reports that, “by promulgating a law on a policy of the nuclear [...]

The United Nations, the African Union (AU), and the US Department of State Sunday voiced approval for the Tigray regional government’s commitment to a peaceful resolution of the Ethiopia conflict and its willingness to engage with the AU. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the AU Commission emphasised that this “positive development is a unique opportunity for [...]

Law360 Sunday released a study showing only a moderate increase in the number of female lawyers working in US law firms, despite the efforts to improve diversity, equity and inclusion. Currently, only 38.9 percent of law firm attorneys are women, and only 27 percent of female attorneys are partners. According to Law360, these figures are [...]