The chief judge of the EU’s rule of law mission in Kosovo, Malcom Simmons, resigned Thursday over frustrations with corruption, he alleged in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde. The mission, known as EULEX, exists to promote the rule of law in Kosovo, mentor lawyers and judges in that young nation’s justice system, [...]
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Russia’s State Duma , the lower house of parliament, voted unanimously Thursday to require foreign media organizations to label their materials as the work of foreign agents. Additionally, the law could potentially force media organizations to disclose their sources of funding, finances and staffing. Two broadcasters with ties to the US, which operate seven regional [...]
An unnamed transgender woman being held in an all-male prison in Massachusetts filed suit Wednesday alleging unfair treatment. The lawsuit, filed by GLAD Legal Advocates and Defenders in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts , names the Massachusetts Department of Correction, Commissioner Thomas A. Turco III, MCI-Norfolk Superintendent Sean Medeiros, Americans with [...]
An LGBT rights activist filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging a Tennessee law that allows counselors to refuse to serve clients based on religious views. The law, signed in April 2016 by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam , allows therapists to refuse to treat patients based on religious objections, when that patient’s “goals, outcomes or behaviors” [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri issued an order Wednesday placing restrictions on how the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department may interact with protesters. The order states that the City of St. Louis will not give the police the authority or discretion to declare an unlawful assembly against [...]
PennLive’s Wallace McKelvey tours Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District, calling it “one of the nation’s most gerrymandered.” The Seventh spans a wide swath of southeastern Pennsylvania, from the Delaware border in to the suburbs outside Reading. While we’re talking about the federal and state court cases challenging Pennsylvania’s district lines, it’s worth considering the actual communities [...]
Five House Democrats on Wednesday introduced five new Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump. Tennessee Representative Steve Cohen sponsored the measure, joined by Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, Al Green of Texas, Marcia Fudge of Ohio, Adriano Espaillat of New York and John Yarmuth of Kentucky. The representatives submitted five Articles of Impeachment , alleging [...]
The Cambodia Supreme Court dissolved the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) , the nation’s primary opposition party, on Thursday, effectively opening the door for Prime Minister Hun Sen to extend his 30-year reign as leader of the nation. The ruling follows the arrest of CNRP’s leader Kem Sokha following accusations that the party was plotting [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Wednesday ruled for the city of Philadelphia in a dispute over Attorney General Jeff Sessions withholding federal law enforcement grants in response to the city’s refusal to adhere to his heightened immigration security measures. In granting Philadelphia’s motion for preliminary injunction, [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused the Myanmar military of committing sexual crimes against Rohingya women and girls. HRW conducted interviews with 52 women and girls who fled from the Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships. Twenty-nine of them were identified as survivors of rape. Survivors reported experiences of gang rape, and murder of children and [...]
