UPDATE 2:32PM ET: Manafort and Gates have pleaded not guilty. Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Monday revealed charges against two former Trump campaign officials, and a plea agreement with a third, marking the first criminal charges to come from a probe into possible Russian influence in US political affairs. The three individuals charged were Paul [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Susan Farooqi of St. John’s University School of Law discusses the regression in womens’ rights in Afghanistan in recent decades… When we think of women in Afghanistan, we often assume that they are oppressed, and recall images of women in burqas and stories of women being brutalized. Although there is a lot [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists Christina Pesavento and Ashley Baker, of the Committee for Justice: Thanks to a sex trafficking bill, the Internet’s days as the bullhorn of democracy may be limited… In Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997), Justice John Paul Stevens extolled the virtues of the Internet as a medium for speech. In this [...]
Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: The US Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on seven individuals and three organizations for human rights abuses in connection with the US State Department‘s “Report on Human Rights Abuses and Censorship in North Korea.” The State Department’s report heavily focused on [...]
Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: Human Rights Watch on Thursday released a report detailing the lack of respect for the rights of intersex individuals in the United States. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Latino Justice PRLDEF on Wednesday announced a settlement with New York City Board of [...]
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Latino Justice PRLDEF on Wednesday announced a settlement with New York City Board of Elections (NYCBOE) to end their voter suppression suit filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York . The consent decree requires the NYCBOE to develop and implement [...]
The US Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on seven individuals and three organizations for human rights abuses in connection with the US State Department‘s “Report on Human Rights Abuses and Censorship in North Korea.” The State Department’s report heavily focused on the activities of the North Korea military and characterized [...]
TheConnecticut House of Representatives on Thursday passed SB-1501 that could allow the state’s nuclear power plants to enter into a competitive procurement process with other zero carbon energy sources. Before the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection and the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority is able to start the competitive procurement process, however, his department must [...]
The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday granted injunctive relief preventing the Department of Defense (DoD) from blocking fast-tracked citizenship applications for US Army Reserve soldiers under the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest (MAVNI) program. The MAVNI program allowed the enlistment of foreign-born soldiers if they possessed language skills or [...]
The legal world is a busy place. Here are a few stories we didn’t get to this week that we thought you might be interested in. • The 9th Circuit held Monday that Montana’s statutory limits on campaign contributions were both justified by and appropriately tailored to goal of combatting corruption or its appearance, reversing [...]
