Dominion Voting Systems, the voting machine company targeted by former president Donald Trump and his allies concerning stolen election claims, sued MyPillow CEO Mike Lindel in a $1.3 billion defamation action Monday. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, where Mike Lindell and MyPillow advertised and promoted the [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Saturday that former Nazi concentration camp guard Friedrich Karl Berger was removed from the US to Germany. Berger was removed for his service in 1945 as an armed guard of concentration camp prisoners in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp system. Berger was an armed guard within the Neuengamme Concentration [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities across Myanmar Monday in the biggest public demonstration of resistance to military rule since 1988. Dubbed the “22222 Revolution” in reference to its date – 22/2/2021 – the country went on a general strike in response to the killing of protesters [...]

Attorneys general from 17 US states sent a letter to congressional leaders Friday expressing support for a student loan debt forgiveness program up to $50,000. The letter, spearheaded by Maura Healey of Massachusetts and Letitia James of New York, is in support of Senate Resolution 46 and House Resolution 100. Both resolutions call on President [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – This report from one of our law students on the ground in Myanmar was filed late Sunday Myanmar time, just before the scheduled daily internet outage imposed by the Myanmar military junta: They harmed our people yesterday but we’re not scared, so more and more people are on the streets today. Tomorrow [...]

In a report published Friday, the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan found that over two years after the signing of a peace agreement ending a civil war that started in 2013, the country is still experiencing extreme levels of violence. South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after experiencing decades of civil war. Another [...]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a new memo on Thursday reversing restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removals that were implemented as part of a 100-day freeze on deportations. Shortly after the Biden administration took office, DHS officials issued an order halting deportations of certain undocumented people for 100 days while the [...]

The Pervomaisky District Court of Bishkek announced Saturday that former Kyrgyz customs official Raimbek Matraimov, who was found guilty of corruption earlier this month, is being detained on fresh money laundering charges.  The announcement comes only days after demonstrators took to the streets to protest the court’s earlier decision to fine Matraimov 260,000 soms (roughly [...]

In a 2-1 decision on Friday, the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a request to revive a Tennessee law requiring a 48-hour waiting period before abortions while the court hears an appeal of the district court’s decision that ruled the law unconstitutional. The 2015 law mandated that women make two trips to an [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Thousands attended a peaceful sit-in rally near Zay Cho Market in downtown Mandalay Sunday, loudly voicing their denunciation of Myanmar’s military junta a day after protesters were killed by police and soldiers in the port area of the city Saturday afternoon. According to a law student at the rally for JURIST, the [...]