International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Wednesday reported to the statement to the UN Security Council (UNSC) on the efforts to arrest Libyan special forces commander Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf Al-Werfalli. The warrant for his arrest was issued in August 2015 following the release of video evidence of Al-Werfalli performing seven different executions, resulting [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday authorized prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate potential crimes against humanity and war crimes in Burundi. The decision of Pre-Trial Chamber III was the result of a preliminary examination launched in Spring 2016. Welcoming the decision, Bensouda noted that the opening of an investigation does not presume an outcome. [...]
Residents of Maine on Tuesday voted to expand access to Medicaid to an additional 70,000 low-income individuals under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) , making it the first state to implement this expansion by referendum. Maine was one of the remaining 19 states that refused to expand Medicaid under the ACA, and the referendum
Redistricting has taken on increasing importance nationally as controversies over the political gerrymandering of House seats in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have moved into the spotlight. However, redistricting controversies are not confined to the national level. At the local level, redistricting causes emotions to run high, frustrates politicians and, sometimes, causes befuddlement. A survey [...]
Ohio voters on Tuesday approved an amendment that will give Ohio crime victims more Constitutional rights. Issue 1 passed with over 82 percent of the vote , giving crime victims more rights and requiring that those rights be as well protected as the rights of the criminal suspects. The rights provided by this amendment include [...]
The Indonesian Constitutional Court on Tuesday found that a 2013 law requiring people who adopted indigenous native faiths to not disclose that religion on their ID cards was discriminatory and unconstitutional. The Indonesian government only recognizes six official religions and anyone who fails to identify with one of the religions is often denied equal access [...]
The Instanbul 14th High Criminal Court on Tuesday upheld Enis Berberoğlu’s 25-year prison sentence, finding the appeals court did not have grounds to order a retrial . Berberoğlu, deputy of the main opposition party, Republican People’s Party (CHP), was convicted of military espionage in June after he allegedly reported video of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization [...]
Syria announced on Tuesday during UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, that the nation is poised to send its ratification of the Paris Climate Accord to the UN. The Syria People’s Assembly voted to approve ratification of the agreement last month. Syria, a nation engrossed in a civil war since 2011, was not [...]
A three-judge panel for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied in part a motion to dismiss filed by intervenor defendants in Agre v. Wolf , a Pennsylvania redistricting case. The initial complaint in the lawsuit, filed on October 2, alleges that the current Pennsylvania districting maps favor Republicans and violate [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday in Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago that a court-made time limitation rule was not jurisdictional. The issue was whether the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred in dismissing the case for lack of jurisdiction under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure (4)(a)(5)(C) . The [...]
