Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the Combating Violence, Disorder, and Looting and Law Enforcement Protection Act Monday in the wake of recent protests over police brutality throughout the country. The act creates additional offenses for rioting, looting and assaulting police. The act makes violent assemblies of seven people or more and obstruction of vehicles a [...]
The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene over whether undocumented immigrants can be excluded when allocating congressional seats based on the 2020 census. Recently, multiple states sued the Trump administration for discounting undocumented immigrants on the census with an appeals court blocking the federal government from carrying out this directive. [...]
Kentucky’s attorney general announced on Wednesday that a grand jury returned an indictment against only one of the three officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor earlier this year, not for her killing but on charges of wanton endangerment. Breonna Taylor was asleep in her apartment with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, in the early [...]
This year, Yemen enters its sixth year of being stuck in the middle of a civil war. What began as a result of political transition to help Yemen regain stability in 2011, intensified in 2015, when a group of Gulf states, backed by the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and France began airstrikes [...]
US President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday that bans workplace diversity training with certain characteristics for federal contractors, grantees and military. The executive order bans workplace diversity training with the following characteristics: The contractor shall not use any workplace training that inculcates in its employees any form of race or sex stereotyping or [...]
The Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia, Canada, have launched a rights-based “Moderate Livelihood” fishery in St. Mary’s Bay, which has sparked outrage and protests from non-Indigenous fishermen. Sipekne’katik band is the first to start this type of moderate livelihood fishery. The Mi’kmaw (also spelled Mi’kmaq) band has the constitutional right to fish for a [...]
The tumultuous controversy about whether President Trump and the Senate should try to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat before the upcoming election presents high stake political and constitutional risks for both Republicans and Democrats. It also presents risks for long-term public confidence in the integrity of the Supreme Court. Republicans can hardly [...]
The US House of Representatives voted 406-3 Tuesday to approve HR 6210, known as the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which aims to prevent goods made using forced labor from being imported from China to the US. The Act was introduced in the House on March 11 and “imposes various restrictions related to China’s Xinjiang [...]
In a joint statement published Tuesday, 24 nongovernmental organizations urged the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to act to bridge Yemen’s “acute accountability gap.” The statement was based on 1 September 9 report from the UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen. The report describes the conflict in Yemen that has been ongoing since 2014: “The [...]
Pakistan’s Anti–Terrorism Court on Tuesday sentenced two political activists to death for committing a deadly 2012 arson attack that killed more than 260 garment factory workers. The court found both activists guilty of extortion and found that they set the Ali Enterprise factory ablaze after factory owners refused to cede the activists’ monetary demands. The [...]
