District Judge Henry T. Wingate temporarily blocked a Mississippi law Tuesday that made it illegal to “knowingly collect and transmit a ballot that was mailed to another person,” with a few exceptions. The case is in the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi’s Northern Division. The court took issue with the law’s [...]

A group of booksellers and publishers filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Texas officials to block House Bill (HB) 900, the state’s new book ratings law. The plaintiffs believe the new law could ban classics like “Romeo and Juliet” and “Of Mice and Men” from state public school classrooms and libraries due to sex-related content. [...]

The Bar Council Tuesday accused UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of undermining public trust in the legal profession by claiming that a “subset of lawyers” is exploiting illegal migrants for profit. This comes in response to a series of tweets from Sunak, forthcoming after a national newspaper exposé included a video from alleged immigration lawyers [...]

A Belgian court on Tuesday handed down verdicts on the 2016 Brussels terrorist attacks targeting the airport terminal and a subway station in which 32 lives were lost and 300 people were injured. Out of the ten individuals facing charges, six have been convicted of murder and attempted murder. Salah Abdeslam, already serving a life [...]

The Chinese government announced a cabinet reshuffle involving the replacement of Qin Gang as the Minister of Foreign Affairs during the fourth session of the 14th National People’s Congress Standing Committee on Tuesday. Qin Gang, China’s youngest-ever foreign minister at 55, has not been seen in public since June 25. He last attended official meetings [...]

New Zealand justice minister Kiri Allan resigned from her position on Monday after she was charged with careless driving and resisting arrest. Allan was taken into custody by police Sunday night after she was involved in a vehicle collision with a parked car in Wellington. Police attended the accident and Allan returned a breath test [...]

The US Department of Education’s (DOE) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced in a Monday letter that it is looking into whether Harvard University’s donor and legacy admissions preferences perpetuates racial discrimination. The announcement comes after a complaint was filed against Harvard University three weeks ago with the DOE, which alleged the university’s preferential admissions [...]

US President Joe Biden expressed disappointment on Monday over the Israeli Knesset’s passage of the judicial reform bill. In a statement released from the White House, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on behalf of the President, “It is unfortunate that the vote today took place with the slimmest possible majority.” The controversial bill, which seeks [...]

A federal judge in California struck down a Biden administration asylum policy on Tuesday that created a “rebuttable presumption of asylum ineligibility” if someone seeking asylum in the US has did not first seek out a lawful, safe and orderly path to the US. The ruling found that the rule, which was set to take effect [...]

Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Senior Correspondent in Kenya. She files this dispatch from Nairobi. What exactly is a country? Is a country its people, or is a country its government? Moreover, do the laws of a country exist to serve its citizens or do they exist to serve the whims of its government? And [...]