US President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday authorizing the US Department of State and Department of the Treasury to impose economic and political sanctions against Turkey in response to escalating violence in northern Syria. Trump ordered the withdrawal of US military forces from northern Syria last week after a phone call with Turkish [...]

Spain’s Supreme Court on Monday jailed nine Catalan separatists with sentences ranging from 9-13 years imprisonment for the crimes of sedition and misuse of public funds. These sentences are each followed by equal periods of absolute ineligibility for public office. Three others were fined and charged with civil disobedience. The court did not find the [...]

The Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal in Belfast held Monday that a Northern Ireland-born person is British until renunciation of British citizenship. This case arose when a woman born in Northern Ireland applied for a resident card for her US-born husband. The Home Office rejected the request, finding that the woman was [...]

California Governor Gavin Newson signed a bill on Friday making California the first state in the nation to ban fur products. Under the existing Fish and Game Code, products or handicraft items made from fur-bearing mammals and non-game mammals lawfully taken under the authority of a trapping license may be purchased or sold at any [...]

Two Pennsylvania civil rights groups filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a Marsy’s Law ballot question, a proposed constitutional amendment that would enumerate the rights of crimes victims. The state chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union and the League of Women voters filed the complaint in Commonwealth Court against the acting head of the Pennsylvania [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction on Friday, blocking an Ohio law that bans abortions after an indication that the unborn child has Down syndrome. Ohio law HB 214 prohibits any person from performing an abortion on a pregnant woman with knowledge that she is having the abortion [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women on Thursday released a new report regarding mistreatment and violence against women in reproductive health services with a focus on childbirth and obstetric violence. Like the #MeToo movement, the information posted on online platforms reveals that women who are victims of obstetric violence are often silenced because [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday upheld a lower court ruling requiring the president’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, to comply with the subpoena issued by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. The Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to Mazars in April for records related to work performed [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction Friday against President Donald Trump’s proposed plan for funding the border wall for exceeding executive branch authority under the Appropriations Act. Trump issued a proclamation in February declaring a national emergency on the southern border of the US [...]

The European Commission referred Poland to the European Court of Justice Thursday for violating judicial independence. In an April 3 letter, the Commission outlined in detail Poland’s failure to provide an effective right to remedy before an independent and impartial court under Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. Poland has also [...]