Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl pleaded guilty on Monday to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. Appearing before a military judge in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Bergdahl said that understood that his actions violated the law. Bergdahl walked off his Afghanistan base in 2009 and soon after was captured and held captive by the Taliban Haqqani Network [...]
At a meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, on Monday, Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed to begin the process of reducing tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh, which both nations lay claim to the territory. The meeting ended with a joint statement from all parties, “The Presidents agreed to take [...]
A group of UN human rights experts on Monday urged Kenya to lift a new ban on protests and refrain from violence against protesters in the build up to the national elections. The Kenyan authorities made it illegal to demonstrate in the three largest cities in the country last week. This decision was met with [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in four cases, including a Microsoft data privacy case, and an American Express antitrust case. In US v. Microsoft Corp. , the court will focus on US attempts to gain access to data stored abroad from email providers. The US argues that a probable cause-based warrant to [...]
Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: Turkish prisons are committing torture and disappearing citizens, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report Thursday. Palestinian political parties Hamas and Fatah on Thursday announded a reconciliation deal in which Hamas has agreed to hand over administrative control of Gaza to Fatah in Cairo. The [...]
Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: The White House notified the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday that it had instructed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to stop making cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) . Georgetown Law [...]
The White House notified the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday that it had instructed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to stop making cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) . The notice states that the executive branch has “determined that those [...]
Georgetown Law School’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection on Thursday filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court for the City of Charlottesville seeking to prevent armed organizations from returning to Charlottesville. The lawsuit was filed in response to the organizations’ leadership calling on their members to keep returning to the city. The suit claims [...]
On Thursday, US President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum delegating many of the President’s powers to sanction Iran granted by the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 2017 to the Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Homeland Security . The Secretary of State was delegated the presidential waiver [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Leigha A. Weiss, a 3L at St. John’s School of Law, discusses new technology that could help with pretrial release of the indigent defendant … Johnathon Sacks, a renowned British Rabbi, philosopher and scholar, said: “technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power.” [...]
