The US District Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday rejected atheist Michael Newdow’s argument that “In God We Trust” violates the US Constitution and federal law. Newdow initiated the lawsuit in 2016 in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio seeking the removal of the phrase “In God We [...]
Women in Afghanistan are often pressured to pursue mediation for violent crimes, and officials are often reluctant to file criminal charges against the accused, even for so-called “honor killings” according to a UN report released Tuesday. After a two-year period of observation in Afghanistan from January 2016 to December 2017, the UN Assistance Mission in [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday that Syrian Law No. 10 of 2018 will allow the government to take private property without compensation, which will discourage refugees from returning to the war-devastated country. The new law allows the government to create redevelopment zones, which allows the government to seize the land in that area if [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from prematurely cutting off the Office of Adolescent Health funding awarded for science-based programs aimed at reducing teen pregnancy. King County sued the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) when it ended funding [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Lagos v. US that the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996 (MVRA) applies only to government investigations and criminal proceedings, and not to a victim’s own private investigation or expenses incurred during civil or bankruptcy proceedings. In this case, the petitioner refused to pay $5 million to GE [...]
“Where will it end? When will it all be lulled back into sleep, and cease, the bloody hatreds, the destruction?” -Aeschylus, presenting the conclusion of Agamemnon If US President Donald Trump should sometime manage to re-start the cancelled nuclear summit talks with Kim Jung Un, his core focus should be on achieving stable nuclear deterrence, [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the case of City of Hays, Kansas v. Vogt , deciding that the writ of certiorari was “improvidently granted.” At issue was whether a defendant’s Fifth Amendment rights are violated when statements are admitted into evidence at a probable cause hearing even though they are not admitted during [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a case in which a branch of Planned Parenthood challenged an Arkansas abortion law. The law requires any doctor prescribing an abortion pill to have an agreement with another doctor who can admit the patient to the hospital in the case of an emergency. A federal [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Fourth Amendment’s automobile exception does not permit a police officer to enter the area around a home to search a parked vehicle without an invitation or a search warrant. In Collins v. Virginia , the defendant was convicted of receiving a stolen motorcycle after a police officer [...]
Pakistan’s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, passed a Constitutional amendment Thursday that merges a region known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province along Pakistan’s northwest Afghanistan border. The move extends a number of political, administrative, and human rights reforms to the FATA, and extends jurisdiction of [...]
