The German public prosecutor accusesd nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) leader, Frauke Petry Wednesday, of giving false statements about campaign finance under oath. Petry is accused of lying to a committee of the regional parliament in Saxony in 2015 regarding the AfD’s finances during Saxony’s 2014 election. In 2015, she told the committee that [...]
Spain’s High Court announced on Wednesday that Calalonia’s police and organizers are under investigation for sedition, most notably Catalonia’s regional police, Josep Lluis Trapero. Trapero is being called to testify in relation to arrests of high-ranking officials over the organization of a banned independence vote. The accusations refer to the unrest that broke out after [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments for two cases Wednesday. In District of Columbia v. Wesby , police arrested trespassers in a vacant house. The trespassers stated that they were invited by someone else while the homeowner stated they did not invite anyone. The case questions whether the police are able to discredit the [...]
Egyptian authorities are waging an anti-lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and intersex (LGBTI) campaign, having arrested a total of 33 individuals, according to a statement by Amnesty International (AI) on Monday. The crackdown began because of a rainbow flag being displayed at the Mashrou’ Leila concert in Cairo in late September, which resulted into an investigation [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Hawaii Tuesday against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) related to regulations for the administration of the abortion pill Mifeprex. The pill enables a person to end a pregnancy up to 10 weeks. The FDA restrictions [...]
The Supreme Court heard arguments in Jennings v. Rodriguez , a case which will determine whether or not non-citizen aliens may be held indefinitely without a bond hearing on Tuesday. Specifically, the court will decide if alien who are seeking admission into the county and are subject to mandatory detention must be afforded bond hearings; [...]
Through their questions and various statements during a one-hour oral argument on Tuesday, most of the Supreme Court justices indicated at least some consensus about their opinion of the practice of gerrymandering. With the exception of Justice Neil Gorsuch, who focused primarily on the tests that would be used to evaluate the partisan bias of [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists John Radsan of the Mitchell Hamline School of Law and Robert Delahunty of the University of St. Thomas School of Law discuss how President Trump can use the recent devastating hurricanes to make a national security argument to fight climate change… The hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, like the missiles of October [...]
The United States House of Representatives on Tuesday voted 237-189 to approve an abortion bill that would criminalize the medical procedure if performed after the 20 week viability mark. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36), sponsored by Trent Franks (R-AZ) , protects patients from prosecution, focusing instead on medical providers who perform abortions [...]
The Atlanta City Council on Monday unanimously approved an ordinance decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana within the city limits. Following the path of other cities, the council approved, by a 15-0 vote, Ordinance 17-O-1152 to make the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana a non-jailable offense that results in a [...]
