The Mexican American Legislative Caucus (MALC) and the Texas National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Tuesday filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas challenging Texas’ voter ID law as unconstitutionally discriminatory. The law, they claim violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Hanni Fakhoury of the Electronic Frontier Foundation discusses recent court decisions on constitutional challenges to law enforcement’s use of cell phone tracking…
A judge for the Pierce County Superior Court in Washington state ruled Tuesday that local enforcement officers cannot extend detention of individuals to question them about their immigration status. Judge Kathryn Nelson reasoned that local law enforcement officers do not have the authority to enforce federal immigration laws even if they have probable cause to [...]
The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) said Tuesday that the ongoing Syrian Civil War has victimized those with disabilities . The committee, which is made up of independent human rights experts, noted that Syria is a party to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and is there [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Liesel LeCates, University of Utah – S.J. Quinney College of Law Class of 2014, discusses the recent sentences by an Egyptian military tribunal against protesters supporting of the ousted president Muhamad Morsi, and whether the sentences were legitimate and fair …
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) released a previously classified opinion on Tuesday explaining why a National Security Agency (NSA) program to keep records of Americans’ phone calls is constitutional. The opinion, written by US district court judge Claire Eagan , said that security leaks regarding the NSA surveillance programs have jeopardized national security . [...]
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) , the tribunal covering the Khmer Rouge trials said Wednesday that it has obtained a loan to pay the overdue salaries of its workers. The USD $1.15 million loan from UN donors will cover unpaid salaries for 140 workers who have been on strike since the [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged the head of the Rights and Freedoms Working Group for Yemen’s National Dialogue to incorporate protections for women in the country’s new constitution. Yemen’s National Dialogue conference was created to bring Yemeni society together to decide the country’s future. In a letter addressed to Chairperson Arwa Othman, Executive [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday found that voting restrictions for convicted persons in Turkey are too harsh and in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights . Soyler, a Turkish national who was sentenced to five years for drawing checks without having sufficient funds, brought the suit after he was [...]
Egyptian police on Tuesday arrested Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson Gehad al-Haddad on suspicion of incitement of violence. Al-Haddad has been the primary spokesperson for the supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi and has become the most recognizable face of the movement in international media. He is the son of Essam el-Haddad, a former adviser to Morsi, [...]
