Voter suppression, which represents the dark underbelly of the American experiment, has reared its head throughout our history, particularly beginning at the cession of the Civil War. After the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, former slaves got an all-too-fleeting taste of emancipation when they not only came out to vote in droves, but [...]
After postings on several listservs many of the pieces written here on JURIST and other seemingly relevant information for legal education, one of us was contacted by the listserv administrators of several listservs about the germaneness of the postings to dispute resolution, contracts, or other academic topic areas. Those administrator contacts usually came after someone [...]
TikTok, a popular video-sharing mobile app owned by a Chinese company, sued the US government on Monday over President Donald Trump’s efforts to ban the app in the US. The lawsuit comes a month after Trump, invoking theInternational Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), issued an executive order that would effectively ban the operation of TikTok in the [...]
A federal judge ordered a stay Sunday in the Trump re-election campaign’s lawsuit against Pennsylvania over the commonwealth’s election procedures. The campaign sued Pennsylvania in an attempt to ban mail ballot drop boxes and to prevent other election procedural changes. The campaign also sought an injunction to allow poll watchers to monitor absentee vote collection [...]
The Canadian government Friday appealed a Canadian Federal Court ruling that struck down the Safe Third Country Act (STCA). The STCA is a key refugee agreement between the US and Canada under which refugees are required to request protection in the first safe country in which they arrive. The STCA allows Canada to turn back [...]
The Federal Council of the Swiss government on Thursday rejected a proposal to appoint supreme court judges by drawing lots, stating that it would raise questions about the legitimacy of the court. The judges of the Federal Court, the Federal Criminal Court, and the Federal Administrative Court are members of the parliament and rely on [...]
Hashem Abedi, who assisted his brother in carrying out a suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in May of 2017, was sentenced to at least 55 years of jail imprisonment on Thursday. Hashem Abedi was found guilty by a jury in March of 22 counts of murder, attempted murder, and plotting to [...]
The US House of Representatives Saturday passed legislation aimed at prohibiting Postmaster General Louis DeJoy from implementing new policy changes at the US Postal Service (USPS) and providing USPS with $25 billion to help alleviate the pressures of the record number of mail-in ballots expected for the November election. Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight [...]
The US Department of Justice filed a petition for writ of certiorari on Thursday with the Supreme Court, appealing a decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that bars President Trump from blocking critics on Twitter. Shortly after his inauguration, Trump blocked several Twitter users critical of him and his administration. Together with Columbia [...]
A US district court judge on Thursday added federal agents to the list of state personnel who cannot assault or arrest journalists and legal observers who observe the arrests and violence accompanying the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests in Portland and prohibiting federal agents from removing members of the press under orders to disperse. Judge [...]
