The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Damon Landor, a Rastafarian man imprisoned in Louisiana, could not sue the Louisiana Department of Corrections (LDOC) officials who restrained him and cut off his dreadlocks. Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the 6-3 opinion, which focused on the applicability of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that immigration officers are not required to have clear and convincing evidence that a returning lawful permanent resident committed a crime involving moral turpitude before treating the resident as an applicant for admission rather than as someone already admitted to the United States. The 6-3 decision in Blanche v. [...]

In a January dispatch by JURIST, we noted that former Ghana Finance Minister Kenneth Ofori-Atta was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pursuant to Ghana’s December 10 formal extradition request to the US Department of Justice for Ofori-Atta, who faces 78 counts of corruption and corruption-related offenses. However, on June 5, ICE’s removal proceedings against him were terminated after a [...]

Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee ‌Feldstein Soto announced on Sunday “a legal victory” for the city, stating that a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by US President Donald Trump’s administration over its sanctuary city ordinance. Feldstein Soto stated: “This order reinforces the well-established principle that local governments have the authority to decide how to use [...]

A coalition of human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch (HRW), issued a joint statement on Monday urging the government of Bangladesh to refrain from adopting the current version of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Bill, 2026, a draft law that replaces the National Human Rights Ordinance 2025. They recommended that authorities amend the [...]

Keir Starmer announced his resignation as UK prime minister on Monday, setting in motion a leadership transition within the Labour Party and positioning newly sworn-in Prime Minister Andy Burnham as the leading contender to become the UK’s next head of government. Starmer’s announcement brought an end to weeks of speculation surrounding his political future. Labour [...]

A US federal judge found Monday that the Trump administration unlawfully created a centralized voter database containing American citizens’ private information. The database at issue was created after President Trump issued Executive Order 14248. Pursuant to the order, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration (SSA) altered the existing Systematic Alien Verification [...]

I was scrolling through Instagram when I came across a post circulated by Iranian musicians and cultural activists responding to the flogging sentence imposed on Parastoo Ahmadi, and what struck me was not the legal formulation of the statement nor its political framing, but a sentence that refused to settle into any category, a sentence [...]

Mihai Coca-Constantinescu, who holds an International and European Law LLB from the University of Groningen and an International Trade and Investment Law LLM from the University of Amsterdam, is a PhD candidate in Transboundary Legal Studies at the University of Groningen, based in the Netherlands, where he covers legal developments in Romania as a JURIST [...]

The state of California filed a suit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday over the federal government’s continued efforts to interfere with the state’s ability to enforce its own emission standards and anti-pollution regulations. Last week, the EPA submitted four preemption waivers, granted to California under the Clean Air Act, to Congress for [...]