The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 Tuesday to give the House Judiciary Committee access to grand jury testimony from the Mueller investigation. Judge Judith Rogers authored the court’s opinion. In the opinion, Rogers cited congress’ sole constitutional power to impeach as justification for granting testimony access. She stressed [...]

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Monday that France, Portugal, Luxembourg, Finland and Germany will take in minor migrants that are currently in Greece, where refugee camps are “already over the limit”. Von der Leyen noted that the minor migrants “are the most vulnerable” and that “t is urgent to get them away [...]

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a two-week quarantine in a county north of New York City Tuesday. New Rochelle, a city in Westchester County, will be the center of the quarantine after authorities confirmed 108 cases of the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19, in the county. This number of cases is the largest COVID-19 [...]

Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada David Lametti introduced a bill to the Canadian House of Commons on Monday to criminalize sexual orientation conversion therapy programs. The bill would amend the Criminal Code to criminalize conversion therapy for all minors, including removing a child from Canada with the intention of subjecting the child [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday that the Colombian National Police “abused the mostly peaceful demonstrators” who had been protesting in 2019. HRW noted that most of the protests were peaceful, but some protesters were violent against both police officers and property. However, HRW stated that “n several cases, the police used excessive force against [...]

Australia filed a lawsuit on Monday against Facebook for its disclosure of the private information of Australians in a manner that was a “serious” and “repeated” violation of Australian law. Australia is suing Facebook for violating the Australian Privacy Principles guidelines on the “se or disclosure of personal information.” Some of the alleged violations included [...]

Guyana’s Chief Justice Roxanne George on Sunday upheld an injunction that prevents the election commission (GECOM) from declaring a winner in the 2020 presidential elections. The injunction was requested by the People’s Progressive Party, as the votes from region 4 have yet to be counted. George’s ruling states that the court is allowed to intervene [...]

Women across Mexico walked out Monday in protest of the government’s lack of action regarding femicide. In Mexico there has been an increase in violence against women in the past year, including the killing of seven-year-old Fátima Cecilia Aldrighett and the brutal murder of Ingrid Escamilla. Last month the Chamber of Deputies approved harsher sentencing [...]

Attorneys litigate on both sides of some of the most contentious issues in the country: affirmative action, rent control, abortion rights, gun rights, you name it. Sometimes the positions attorneys take may be seen as offensive, as those positions may run contrary to more “popular” opinions. But in our adversarial system of justice, free speech is necessary [...]

On February 29th, the United States officials and Taliban representatives signed an agreement aiming to bring an end to the 19 years of conflict in Afghanistan. The United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan weeks after the September 2001 attack in New York by al-Qaeda. The Taliban were ousted from power but they became United [...]