Brian Ulrich, a member of the far-right Oath Keepers, Friday pled guilty to seditious conspiracy and obstructing Congress in connection with the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021. Ulrich, 44, of Guyton, Georgia, is the second Oath Keepers member after Jon Ryan Schaffer to plead guilty to sedition charges in the federal investigation into the [...]

Germany filed an application Friday to bring proceedings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Italy for continuing to allow victims of Nazi war crimes to claim compensation from Germany even after an earlier ruling that such claims violate international law. In its application, Germany stated: Italian domestic courts have in the past disregarded [...]

US District Judge Timothy Kelly for the US District Court for the District of Columbia Sunday dismissed a request by the Republican National Committee (RNC) to block a subpoena asking its email vendor to release records involving the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The House committee investigating the attack made the subpoena request. The committee [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday filed a complaint challenging an Alabama law that criminalizes some medical treatments for transgender youth. The DOJ stated Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (VCCPA) “denies necessary medical care to children based solely on who they are” and threatens criminal action against doctors, parents, or others who [...]

From New Delhi, India Chief Correspondent Neelabh Bist reports for JURIST on recent top-level meetings of India’s senior judges and political leaders in which needed improvements to Indian court structure and process were discussed… Last week a conference of Chief Justices of different Indian High Courts and a joint conference of the Chief Justices of [...]

US District Judge Alison J. Nathan of the Southern District of New York Friday upheld British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction on sex trafficking charges. Nathan concluded that there was enough evidence to convict Maxwell of recruiting and grooming teenagers for Jeffrey Epstein. A federal jury convicted Maxwell on 5 of 6 counts after a 13-day [...]

International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan Thursday revealed a new four-pronged investigation strategy for the ongoing investigation into the situation in Libya to the UN Security Council. The ICC investigation focuses on alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Libya since protests erupted against Muammar Gaddafi’s government in February 2011. The [...]

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) Commission of Inquiry Friday released a report suggesting that the BVI should temporarily suspend its constitution, dissolve its House of Assembly and be directly ruled by its Governor. In January 2021, then-BVI Governor Augustus Jaspert issued an investigation into the governance of the territory, aiming to uncover “corruption, abuse of [...]

Georgia Republican governor Brian Kemp Thursday signed a slew of educational bills into law, including controversial legislation to ban “divisive concepts” from classrooms. House Bill 1084, known as the “Protect Students First Act,” defines “divisive concepts” as including such things as teaching that one race is inherently superior to another, that the United States is [...]

The Canadian government Thursday announced that it is lifting the three-month blood donor deferral period for men who are sexually active with other men. Under the current blood donation regulations, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) have to wait for a three-month period since their last sexual contact with another [...]