US House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler on Monday announced that he reached an agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain more evidence from the Mueller investigation relating to President Donald Trump’s possible obstruction of justice. Nadler stated that both Democrats and Republicans on the Committee are to receive the evidence that Special [...]

In an opinion by Justice Kavanaugh, the US Supreme Court affirmed the ruling below in Quarles v. United States that intent formed at any time during a burglary is sufficient. Defendant Jamar Quarles was charged with a violation of the Armed Career Criminal Act for committing a felony with a weapon after three prior felony [...]

The US Supreme Court’s Monday orders added five new cases on a range of topics from the EPA to race discrimination in media, but denied a case filed by a current Guantanamo prisoner. A Yemeni national, al-Alwi, has been held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 17 years, since the early days of the war on [...]

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators lined the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday in protest of a new extradition bill that would create a legal mechanism by which individuals could be extradited from Hong Kong to mainland China. Hong Kong was guaranteed the right to retain its own social, legal and political systems for 50 [...]

UN rights experts on Friday called on the UN to enact an independent investigation into human rights violations in the Philippines, citing an increase of unlawful killings and attacks on individuals and institutions defending human rights. The report illustrates the “staggering number” of unlawful deaths and police killings in context of the “war on drugs,” [...]

Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo (Bemba) is the leader of the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) and was the commander-in-chief of its military forces during the Central African Bush War from 2003-2004, during which the MLC was accused of committing war crimes, as well as, crimes against humanity. Bemba was arrested on charges of war [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in Missouri state court against Secretary of State John Ashcroft on Thursday after Ashcroft rejected the ACLU’s petition to allow the people of Missouri to approve or veto the state’s recently passed abortion legislation in a public referendum. Missouri’s Constitution provides citizens with a right to [...]

A bipartisan mix of senators on Wednesday issued 22 separate resolutions to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia. The Arms Export Control Act typically allows Congress 30 days to review potential international arms sales. The Trump administration, though, indicated last month that it intended to use an emergency provision of the act that would bypass [...]

US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he had signed the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act of 2019, which provides aid to areas struck by natural disasters over the last three years. The House passed the bill, HR 2157, on Monday by a vote of 354-58 over the opposition of some Republican holdouts. [...]

Maine’s legislature approved the Death with Dignity Act this week, sending the bill to Governor Janet Mills on Wednesday for her signature. If enacted, the bill would add a new care option for individuals who are terminally ill and have fewer than six months to live. State residents would be able to request and voluntarily self-administer [...]