The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that it would monitor the Wisconsin recall election taking place on Tuesday to prevent voter fraud. The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will be one of the jurisdictions that the DOJ will oversee to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) , which prohibits discrimination [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Brynne Madway, The George Washington University Law School Class of 2013, offers insight on the Obama administration’s public endorsement of gay marriage and examines the current state of LGBT initiatives… Earlier this month, North Carolina preacher Charles Worley said that gays and lesbians should be placed behind an electric fence so that [...]
Buzeid Dorda, spy chief under former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi , appeared in court on Tuesday, facing a number of charges associated with the conflict in Libya in 2011 which ultimately deposed Gaddafi and his regime. Dorda denied all charges , and the case was adjourned until June 26. Libyan Prosecutor-General Abdul Azizi al-Hassadi told [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged the Kimberley Process (KP) a multi-government initiative to monitor and prevent the sale of conflict diamonds, to put further pressure on the Zimbabwe government to comply with established regulations. HRW expressed particular concern about the ongoing abuses of diamond miners by government officials and police, and the continued [...]
The lawyers for media magnate Conrad Black on Monday filed a motion in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to dismiss the remainder of their client’s convictions because the prosecution had deprived him of his right to an attorney. Black argued that the government, among other fallacies, improperly seized his funds [...]
JURIST Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that a recent survey conducted by the National Democratic Institute reveals changing attitudes regarding federal authority and regional independence in Iraq…
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Monday that an Illinois tax-payer does not have standing to sue the state legislature for a $20,000 grant provided to the Bald Knob Cross of Peace Organization for the restoration of a landmark Latin cross. The money was part of a $5 million appropriation for [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said Monday that economic or other aid should be refused to those countries that assist Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir in evading the arrest warrant that was issued against him in 2010. Al-Bashir’s government has dismissed the case against its president as politically motivated and without sufficient [...]
The Ukrainian Parliament on Tuesday passed the first reading of a controversial bill that would allow Russian to be spoken in official settings in particular regions of the Ukraine. Opponents to the bill expressed concern that the inclusion of Russian would divide the nation. The new bill would preserve Ukrainian as the official language of [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona heard oral arguments on Monday to determine whether Arizona citizens may join in a class action lawsuit challenging the state’s controversial immigration law . Allowing class action status would permit thousands of Arizona residents to join in a recent lawsuit challenging the immigration [...]
