The United Nations Security Council decided on Friday to expand existing sanctions placed on Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and applied those sanctions to 14 individuals and four organizations. The expansion of resolution 1718 (2006) will impose an asset freeze and travel ban on those that new resolution 2356 (2017) names as being [...]
President Donald Trump made a series of tweets on Saturday to profess the need for his travel ban stemming from the London attack . Trump also phoned British Prime Minister Theresa May to offer condolences and give support if Britain would need it, according to a White House statement. Currently seven people have died from [...]
The California State Assembly passed two bills on Thursday which, if passed by the senate, will strengthen protections for undocumented immigrant students in public schools from kindergarten through college. Assembly Bill 699 passed by a 60-13 vote , with seven members not voting, and will provide numerous protections for students attending K-12 public schools in [...]
The California State Assembly passed a bill on Thursday with the bare minimum 41 out of 80 votes that, if passed by the Senate, will prohibit state and local authorities from assisting federal agencies in the enforcement of marijuana laws without a court order. Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer , who authored and introduced the bill, says [...]
The city of Austin filed a lawsuit on Thursday joining San Antonio and two other Texas cities in challenging the constitutionality of Texas Senate Bill 4 (SB4) , a new immigration enforcement law signed by Governor Greg Abbott early last month. The San Antonio lawsuit , filed on the city’s behalf by the Mexican American [...]
The California Supreme Court , in an opinion overturning three Kern County attempted murder convictions for alleged jury tampering, unanimously ruled on Thursday that judges must thoroughly examine prosecutor decisions to exclude potential jurors to ensure there is no racial bias. In so ruling, the Court concluded that the trial judge erred in rejecting the [...]
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein called on the Government of Bahrain on Friday to investigate the deaths of five protesters that occurred during a security operation last week. The protesters were killed and 286 individuals were arrested when Bahraini security forces were conducting an operation concerning a sit-in held [...]
Eric Schneiderman , New York’s top prosecutor, accused ExxonMobil in a court filing Friday of misleading investors about climate change risks and demanded the corporation turn over internal documents. Schneiderman, Attorney General for New York, said in the filing that he had evidence of “potential materially false and misleading statements by Exxon” that could have [...]
Family members of human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong said Friday that police have informed them of his formal arrest and his decision to dismiss all legal counsel. The legal activist disappeared in November after publicizing the plight of families of human rights lawyers and activists that have been detained in an effort to stifle opposition [...]
The Kansas legislature approved SB 235 on Thursday exempting state mental hospitals, community mental health centers and the University of Kansas Health System‘s hospitals from a previously passed law allowing people to carry concealed firearms in such facilities. The bill was written in response to a National Rifle Association (NRA) backed law passed in 2013. [...]
