In a statement issued by the US State Department Wednesday, the US formally announced sanctions against the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) and one of the Bank’s directors, Iliana Josefa Ruzza Teran. According to the statement, the sanctions were issued “to halt the former Maduro regime’s theft of Venezuela’s assets and destruction of the economy.” [...]
The US Supreme Court heard two oral arguments Wednesday morning. At issue in the first case, United States v. Davis, is whether the term “crime of violence” is unconstitutionally vague in 18 USC § 924(c)(3)(B). This statute deals specifically with the possession of firearms by the defendant during this type of crime. The two respondents [...]
Former president of Peru Alan Garcia died Wednesday during an arrest by Peruvian Police in connection with the Odebrecht corruption scandal. Garcia was president of Peru twice from 1985-1990 and 2006-2011. He was the leader of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, a center-left political party in Peru, and is the party’s only member to take [...]
A Montana district court ruled Monday that a Canadian mining company cannot mine for gold in an area north of Yellowstone National Park. The ruling is a result of a suit brought by the Park County Environmental Council and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. In its decision, the court ruled that certain amendments to the Montana [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday that more than two years of decisions by Colonel Vance Spath, a military tribunal judge who formerly oversaw the case of Abd Al-Rahim Hussein Muhammed Al-Nashiri, should be discarded because he failed to disclose his application to be an Immigration Judge in the Department [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against Twitter, Facebook and Google brought by the victims and the families of the victims of the June 2016 Pulse nightclub mass shooting. The shooting in Orlando, Florida, killed 49 people and injured 53. The plaintiffs’ claim was that the technology [...]
India’s Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear a petition from a Muslim couple to allow entry of women to mosques without restrictions, and issued a notice to the government. Yasmeen Zuber Ahmad Peerzade and her husband Zuber Ahmad Nazir Ahmad Peerzade said the restrictions on the entry of women into certain mosques should be [...]
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday vetoed a joint resolution by Congress that would require the president to withdraw the US military from Yemen. In his veto message to the Senate, the president described the resolution as: an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave service [...]
The Trump administration ruled on Tuesday that asylum seekers are ineligible from posting bail while they wait the months or years for their cases to be heard. Attorney General William Barr’s decision explains that Section 212(d)(5)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides that any “alien” applying for admission may be paroled into the US for [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Tuesday. In Parker Drilling Management Services. Ltd. v. Newton, the question asked is whether California can adopt its own overtime rules over federal wage law, for workers on oil rigs attached to the Outer Continental Shelf. In this case previously decided by the US Court [...]
