US Attorney General William Barr on Thursday directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to adopt an addendum resuming capital punishment after nearly two decades. Additionally, the Acting Director of the BOP was directed to schedule the executions of five inmates convicted of murdering children and the elderly. In a press release from the Department [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California blocked the Trump administration’s new asylum rule Wednesday. The new rule, announced July 15, requires most asylum-seekers to ask for protection in another country before reaching the US-Mexico border. Under the new rule, Hondurans and Salvadorans would have to be denied asylum [...]
Ramush Haradinaj, the former prime minister of Kosovo, was in The Hague Tuesday to answer questions about war crimes allegedly committed during the 1989-99 war. Haradinaj resigned last week “not to be questioned as the country’s leader” by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers. He ultimately declined to answer any of the prosecutors’ questions, presumably on the [...]
Convicted Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff filed a petition for clemency with the Justice Department Monday. Madoff was arrested in December 2008 for defrauding investors of billions of dollars while head of the investment firm Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. In June 2009 Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for his crimes. According to [...]
Judge Kristine Baker of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on Tuesday temporarily blocked the state of Arkansas, and its officials, from enforcing three recently passed acts pertaining to abortion. The three acts, Act 700, Act 619, and Act 493, all relate to women’s reproductive rights and are the focus of [...]
A former Nazi soldier was charged by German prosecutors for incitement and disparaging the memory of Nazi victims Wednesday after he made inflammatory statements in an interview broadcast on television. The accused was identified by media to be Karl Münter, who had previously been convicted in France over his role in the killing of 86 [...]
After more than three years of legal dispute, a federal judge in North Carolina approved a settlement Tuesday that will allow transgender people to use the bathrooms in state buildings that match their gender identities. North Carolina’s House Bill 2 (HB 2), “the bathroom bill,” was passed in March 2016, requiring transgender people to use [...]
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified Wednesday in two hearings about his findings (released in a 448-page redacted report in May) in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. In his opening statements, Mueller touched on findings of his investigation and made a few remarks. “Our investigation found that the Russian [...]
Utah’s Supreme Court has unanimously struck down a state law requiring medical malpractice plaintiffs to obtain a “certificate of compliance” from a state agency. The court ruled that the law, known as the Malpractice Act, was unconstitutional as it violates the separation of powers doctrine by limiting the role of the judiciary. In Utah, a [...]
India’s federal government on Tuesday introduced two new labor code bills in the lower house of parliament. The Code on Wages and the Code on Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions are expected to affect about 500 million workers if passed. The Code on Wages seeks to regulate wage and bonus payments in all places [...]
