The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled on Monday that immigrants cannot be detained solely at the request of federal law enforcement officials. The decision comes out of Lunn v. Commonwealth, a case concerning a Cambodian refugee who was arrested for unarmed robbery in Boston last October. When the charges were dismissed because the prosecution [...]
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro announced on Sunday that a controversial election for a new national assembly will go forth as planned next weekend. The new Constituent Assembly will have the power to rewrite the nation’s constitution which was adopted in 1999. Opponents to the move, including the European Union and other Latin American countries, are [...]
Polish President Andrzej Duda announced on Monday that he is vetoing two proposed laws that threaten to limit the judiciary’s independence. One of the bills, passed by the Polish Parliament last week with two others aimed at judicial reform, would allow members of parliament to appoint Supreme Court judges, a move that many citizens of [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University, in part two of this two part series, continues his discussion on how Higher Law supports the prospective impeachment of President Trump… II. What is to be done when positive law (which now includes US Constitutional law) is at variance with true law? The Romans had [...]
On Saturday, Venezuela’s opposition party, Unidad Democratica , made a call for a 48-hour general strike to be held next Wednesday and Thursday. The strike comes in response to President Nicolas Maduro’s call to rewrite the country’s constitution and to elect a new assembly next week. The opposition party had organized a separate 24-hour strike [...]
On Saturday, Poland’s upper house of parliament, the Senate , passed a law that would give the government control over the Supreme Court. The law still needs to be approved by President Andrzej Duda . The law would allow the president to force Supreme Court judges into retirement and appoint new judges. The president has [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University, in part one of this two part series, discusses how Higher Law supports the prospective impeachment of President Trump… “The legality of the Constitution, its supremacy, and its claim to be worshipped alike find common standing ground on the belief in a law superior to the [...]
The House of Representatives and the Senate reached an agreement on Saturday to impose a new sanctions bill on Russia that would give Congress a new veto power in any presidential attempt to roll back the sanctions. The development was brought by both congressional Republicans and Democrats following concerns that President Donald Trump may return [...]
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released a report on Friday welcoming a program, almost five years in the works, to register undocumented Afghans living in Pakistan. UNHCR estimates that between 600,000 to one million undocumented Afghans, currently living in Pakistan, will be now able to receive Afghan Citizen (AC) [...]
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill into law on Friday directing New Jersey school boards to “addres common issues concerning the needs of transgender and LGBTQ students, and to assist schools in establishing policies and procedures that ensure a supportive and nondiscriminatory environment for transgender students.” S-3067/A-4652 directs the Commissioner of Education to [...]
