Amnesty International (AI) on Friday released a report detailing humanitarian crisis incidents that may amount to war crimes in the Philippines. The report is titled ‘The Battle of Marawi’: Death and destruction in the Philippines and is a look at the five month battle that occurred in Marawi earlier this year. AI found that during [...]
The US House of Representatives approved HR 1 , a bill which will overhaul the US tax code, by a vote of 227-205 on Thursday. The bill proposes a $1.5 trillion dollar tax cut for business and individuals throughout the country. The legislation currently proposes a cut in the corporate tax rate from 35 percent [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Krauss of the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School discusses the “crime fraud exception” to attorney-client privilege and how it applies to the recent situation with Paul Manafort and Robert Mueller… The attorney-client privilege is a common law privilege against testifying about the content of confidential communications between clients and [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
