US President Donald Trump issued sanctions against International Criminal Court (ICC) war crimes investigators on Thursday, months after the ICC approved an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war in Afghanistan. In the executive order, Trump claimed the investigation “threatens to subject current and former United States Government and allied officials [...]

India is facing challenging times with the hit of the pandemic that has halted everything to a standstill. The economic development is at its lowest due to the lockdown that has been announced in India to stop the spread of COVID-19. In the face of this crisis, it is a worldwide realization and understanding that [...]

The US Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday released a draft of a new regulation that would make it more difficult for migrants to claim asylum in the US. The departments propose to amend the current regulations that govern credible fear determinations so that any individual that has a credible fear [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday that the US Postal Service (USPS) 2018 rule that disallowed political content on custom stamps is unconstitutional. Since 2005, USPS has offered customers the opportunity to create their own customized stamps. In 2015 USPS established content requirements that were established and maintained [...]

Nearly 1,300 former US Department of Justice (DOJ) called Wednesday for an internal investigation into Attorney General William Barr’s role in the violent clearing of peaceful protesters outside the White House last week.   This DOJ Alumni letter was written in response to Barr ordering law enforcement to clear protesters out of Lafayette Square with [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit dismissed on Tuesday a lawsuit filed by a member of the Satanic Temple against a Missouri abortion law. Judy Doe, a member of the Satanic Temple, alleged that the informed-consent requirement violates her Satanist beliefs, as well as the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the [...]

Retired federal judge John Gleeson on Wednesday published an 82-page memo accusing the US Department of Justice (DOJ) of a “gross abuse of prosecutorial power,” and urging the court to reject the attempt to drop the criminal case against Michael Flynn. Gleeson also accused the attorney general of giving special treatment to a presidential ally [...]

Iranian Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili announced Tuesday that Iran will soon execute the citizen informant who allegedly gave the US and Israeli forces information on General Qassem Soleimani, possibly leading to the airstrike in January that killed the General. Esmaili stated: “Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd, one of the spies for and Mossad, has been sentenced to death. [...]

Militia leader and war crimes suspect Ali Kushayb has been arrested, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Tuesday. This comes more than 13 years after the arrest warrant was issued. Kushayb surrendered to authorities in a northern portion of the Central African Republic, near the border with Sudan. The arrest warrant details 22 charges of [...]

Amid days of protests across the country in response to the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Tony McDade by police, the Washington, DC, council approved emergency reforms to policing Tuesday. The reforms were approved on only a temporary basis, and the council wrote that some of the goals of these reforms were to [...]