UN human rights experts called Monday for an immediate end to the systematic detention and criminalization of human rights defenders, as well as excessive use of force against them. In the past three months, Cambodian citizens attempting to exercise their rights to peaceful assembly have suffered persecution and excessive force at the hands of government [...]
Once President-Elect Biden takes office, we will be able to say goodbye to new judges who self-identify as originalists. This change is important because in constitutional cases, originalism is either pernicious or irrelevant, and we should stop pretending otherwise. There is nothing wrong with the American people celebrating their link to the white, propertied males [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia has barred drilling for the second time in two years on over 300,000 acres of federal land in Wyoming because the government failed to sufficiently consider the drilling’s impacts on climate change. Two environmental nonprofit organizations, WildEarth Guardians and Physicians for Social Responsibility, sued [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged the EU to press for human rights reforms in Central Asia during an upcoming meeting. Josep Borrell, High Representative of the EU, was set to have a virtual meeting with foreign ministers of five Central Asian countries—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan—at the 16th EU-Central Asia Ministerial Meeting [...]
Fifteen Asia-Pacific countries signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on Sunday after eight years of negotiations. The countries include Australia, China, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and Malaysia. The 15 member countries account for about 30 percent of the world’s population and 30 percent of global GDP, making it the largest trade agreement in the world. [...]
European privacy activist group Noyb filed suit Monday in Germany and Spain alleging that Apple’s tracking tool violates European data collection laws. The suits concern Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) technology. An IDFA is a unique identifier for each iPhone that provides Apple and third-party advertisers with users’ online, application and mobile behavior. Noyb claims [...]
The FBI released their annual hate crime report on Monday, revealing that 2019 brought unusually high numbers of hate crimes and hate-motivated killings in the US. The number of hate crimes reached its highest level in over a decade, while the number of hate crime murders was the largest yet reported. The report, created by [...]
Three Wisconsin voters filed a Notice of Voluntary Dismissal on Monday to dismiss their voter fraud lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Michael Langenhorst, Stephen Fifrick and Michael LeMay filed a lawsuit last week alleging that fraudulent ballots from Milwaukee, Dane and Menominee counties were included in Wisconsin’s [...]
The Trump campaign withdrew a major section of its legal complaint Sunday against heavily Democratic counties in Pennsylvania which alleged that 682,479 mail-in ballots were accepted and processed without review by political parties. The central legal theory behind the lawsuit was that processing some ballots with the proper supervision, but not processing other ballots with [...]
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is subject to more than 82,000 sexual abuse claims in its ongoing bankruptcy proceedings, according to a New York Times report published Monday. Those involved in the cases have expressed dismay over the number of claims, as the number of claims against the BSA surpasses the number of claims [...]
