JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University discusses the true nature of President Donald Trump’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin… “I like chaos.” — United States President Donald Trump, March 4, 2018 Credo quia absurdum. “I believe because it is absurd.” In the very best case scenario, President Donald Trump is “merely” [...]
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Authorities in Germany have announced the death of Oskar Groening, a former Nazi SS officer who was known as “the bookkeeper of Auschwitz.” Groening was sentenced last November to four years in prison for being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at Auschwitz during World War II. Previously, Groening’s lawyer had argued that [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland on Monday ruled that a transgender student must be permitted to use both the restroom and locker room that is “in alignment with their gender identity.” Max Brennan, the plaintiff in the matter, is a 15-year-old student at the St. Michaels Middle High [...]
President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday announced that he will immediately pull the Philippines out of the International Criminal Court (ICC) . In a 15 page letter to the media, Duterte declared that the Philippines will immediately withdraw its ratification of the Rome Statute , which established the ICC and was ratified by the Philippines in [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist John Buckleton of New Zealand’s Institute of Environmental Science and Research, discusses the future of DNA software in the courtroom… As anyone who has ever watched CSI can tell you, DNA is well established as the gold standard when it comes to crime solving. Linking the tiniest shreds of DNA evidence together, [...]
The US District Court for District of Massachusetts on Monday rejected a challenge to the Trump administration’s new regulations on birth control that permit employers or health insurers with religious or moral objections to opt out of providing women coverage for contraceptives in their health insurance plans. The suit, seeking a permanent injunction, was filed [...]
The Idaho House of Representatives passed a bill on Monday requiring the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare to provide information to women seeking abortions about reversing a medical abortion once it has begun. The bill is based on a study in which six pregnant women took mifepristone, a medication used to induce abortions, and [...]
The US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday granted a summary judgment against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt, ordering the agency to comply with a new disclosure deadline after missing the first statutory deadline. The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to determine if all counties in the [...]
The ACLU of Southern California , on behalf of several people with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and citizens whose parents have Temporary Protected Status, filed a lawsuit in federal court on Monday challenging the Trump Administration’s termination of protected status that could push over 200,000 people out of the country. The Trump administration has terminated [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday held that Spain violated Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights when the country convicted two of its citizens, Enric Stern Taulats and Jaume Roura Capellera, for setting fire to photograph of the nation’s royal couple stating that the “conviction amounted to an interference [...]
