At a bipartisan congressional hearing on Tuesday, US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi proposed a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing due to human rights concerns. Pelosi called on governments around the world not to honor the Chinese government by allowing their heads of state to go to China for the [...]

A move to ban members of “extremist” organizations from running for office passed the first round of parliamentary discussions in Russia on Tuesday. The move is seen by critics of the Kremlin as an attempt to stop prominent opposition from running against Russian President Vladimir Putin. The bill was supported by 293 MPs, primarily from [...]

Tennessee’s governor has signed a slate of bills in recent days that civil rights groups say will have a discriminatory effect on transgender people. Late last week Republican governor Bill Lee signed HB 1233, the so-called Student Bathroom Bill, which denies transgender students access to the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity. [...]

A US federal judge issued a preliminary ruling Tuesday in favor of a white male restaurateur who claimed he had been discriminated against in connection to his application for some of the nearly $29 billion in relief offered by the Biden administration. Philip Greer, the owner of a cafe in Texas, wanted to apply to [...]

Texas Governor Greg Abbot signed a “fetal heartbeat” abortion bill into law on Wednesday that bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected and allows citizens to sue doctors who perform abortions after the limit. A fetal heartbeat is often detected as early as six weeks after gestation, possibly before a woman even knows she [...]

This article was co-authored by Daniel Klapper (University of Pittsburgh School of Law, US) and Lubaina Baloch (University of Calgary School of Law, CA) What started as a local conflict in East Jerusalem in early May has rapidly emerged as a microcosm of the enduring land rights disputes between Israel and Palestine. A protest over [...]

The Supreme Court held Monday in BP v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore that the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that it lacked the power to consider the defendants’ entire grounds to remove a case from state court pursuant to 28 USC §1447(d). After taking this case to [...]

Any day now, the Supreme Court is set to release its opinion on Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a case argued in October 2020. The central conflict in the case deals with a Catholic foster care organization that contracts with the city to screen potential foster parents for placement. Following the Court’s ruling in Bostock, [...]

The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday that they will be joining the Manhattan district attorney’s office in a criminal investigation of the Trump Organization. James’ office had been conducting a civil investigation into the Trump Organization’s financial dealings since 2019. The investigation began shortly after Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, [...]

Pasquotank County District Attorney Andrew Womble held a press conference on Tuesday to announce that Andrew Brown, Jr.’s death during a confrontation with police on April 21 was justified and will not result in criminal charges for officers involved. Local news network WAVY shared video footage of the press conference, in which Womble stated: After [...]