The EU has taken its first steps towards imposing sanctions on Belarusian officials who have been cracking down on thousands of citizens protesting last week’s elections following an emergency session on Friday. Sanctions such as visa bans and the freezing of assets are likely to be imposed at the end of the month, following the [...]
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India on Friday held noted Indian civil rights attorney Prashant Bhushan guilty of criminal contempt. The Court took up the case against the prominent civil rights advocate over two tweets. The first tweet was about a photo of Justice SA Bobde, Chief Justice of India, riding a [...]
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has announced that he has withdrawn his lawsuit against Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. Governor Kemp initially sued Mayor Bottoms after she moved to impose a city-wide mask mandate due to the sharp increase in coronavirus cases in Atlanta and its surrounding areas. Kemp said that the city was seeking to [...]
The Chief Justice of India told the Central Government Thursday to consider amending the Official Languages Act 1963 for allowing publication of official notifications in languages other than Hindi and English, the second official language of the Government of India. CJI Sharad Arvind Bobde made the recommendation while ruling on an appeal filed by the Union [...]
What do bar exams have in common with elections in the age of COVID-19, aside from the obvious implication that both are related to justice and the rule of law? Technology. While elections have been dealing with the pressures of technology for decades, state bar exams are traditionally huge in-person testing rituals relying heavily on [...]
Two members of a three judge panel of the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday affirmed a lower court ruling that struck down California’s ban on large capacity magazines that hold more than ten rounds of ammunition. The opinion, by Trump appointee Judge Kenneth Lee, held that the ban struck “at the core [...]
Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts was set to sign a bill on Saturday which would ban a common abortion procedure. The bill was passed by the Nebraska state legislature on Thursday. The bill, LB 814, would prohibit a physician from performing a D & E, or dilation and evacuation, procedure on a woman who is seeking [...]
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced at Pittsburgh’s Energy Innovation Center on Thursday that the EPA will remove “ineffective and duplicative” regulations on oil and natural gas companies. The announcement adheres to President Donald Trump’s 2017 executive order on promoting energy independence and economic growth, which states “t is in the national interest [...]
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the results of an investigation into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday, determining that Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli were improperly appointed to their positions. After the departure of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in April 2019, Kevin McAleenan assumed [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it had seized millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency from terrorist organizations al-Qassam Brigades, al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The details of this operation, dubbed by the DOJ as the government’s “largest ever seizure of terrorist organizations’ cryptocurrency accounts,” [...]
