The four executive actions President Donald Trump signed Saturday may face legal challenges because the Constitution grants Congress, not the president, the power to tax and spend. Trump signed three presidential memoranda and an executive order to provide economic relief for the economic crisis caused by COVID-19. The three memoranda seek to increase the unemployment [...]
The French Constitutional Council, France’s highest constitutional authority, has rejected as unconstitutional legislation that included special parole conditions and electronic tracking for those who served prison terms for terrorist offenses. The Constitutional Council found Friday that the legislation unfairly discriminated against former detainees who had served full sentences. The law prohibited former detainees from changing [...]
Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita appointed nine judges to the Mali Constitutional Court by decree. This action was taken on Friday as part of a compromise to ease the current political crisis between Keita and opposition groups. The opposition alliance, called the June 5 Movement, has participated in mass protests demanding Keita’s resignation over his [...]
During a Peace Declaration speech marking the 75th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Sunday, Mayor Tomihisa Taue urged world leaders to do more for a nuclear weapons ban. During World War II, the US detonated nuclear bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The US bombed Hiroshima on August [...]
A Venezuelan court sentenced two former members of the US Army Special Forces, known as the Green Berets, to 20 years in prison for their role in an attempt to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro. In the ruling on Friday, the two men were found guilty of conspiracy, trafficking in illegal arms and terrorism. According to [...]
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has signed a decree that sets up a Justice Commission for the Yaqui People, seeking to solve land, water and infrastructure problems of the group. The decree, signed on Thursday, focuses on the central themes of “erritory, water, justice and well-being for the Yaqui people.” The Yaqui have long [...]
India’s $265 billion COVID relief package has been criticized by many experts as falling short of expectations. In a speech before releasing the package, the Indian Prime Minister declared that the package will focus on land, labor, liquidity, and laws. The majority of the discussion has been around the proportion of fiscal and liquidity relief [...]
A panel of federal judges used a recent Supreme Court opinion to uphold Arkansas abortion restrictions Friday. The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld the regulations by deferring to Justice Roberts’ concurring opinion in the recently-decided Supreme Court case, June Medical Services L. L. C. v. Russo. By deferring to Justice Roberts’ [...]
A federal court blocked Idaho’s ban on transgender individuals changing their sex on their birth certificates Friday. The court reasoned that the ban violated a previous court order that prohibited any policy that prevents transgender individuals from changing their birth certificate sex. The court’s original order pertained to an executive agency rule that prohibited such [...]
“The Button recounts the terrifying history of nuclear launch authority, from the faulty 46-cent microchip that nearly caused World War III to President Trump’s tweet about his “much bigger & more powerful” button. Perry and Collina share their firsthand experience on the front lines of the nation’s nuclear history and provide illuminating interviews with former [...]
