The government of Romania passed an emergency law on Tuesday decriminalizing corruption offenses and official misconduct in which the damages is less than €44,000. The measure is effective immediately and will also be applied to cases that were already charged or currently being tried in court. Some provisions will lead to pardons or reduced sentences [...]
The UK announced Tuesday that thousands of gay and bisexual men who were convicted of sexual offenses received a posthumous pardon as their actions are no longer deemed illegal under British law. The pardon is part of the policing and crime bill , which acknowledges thousands of individuals were convicted of offenses because they were [...]
The Arkansas House of Representatives approved a proposal on Tuesday that would reinstate a voter identification law that was struck down over two years ago. This bill, which was passed 74-21, is nearly identical to a law the republican majority legislature enacted in 2013 that required voters to show ID before voting. That law was [...]
The City of San Francisco filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against the Trump administration over the executive order to withhold federal funding from designated sanctuary cities . The lawsuit is the first of its kind in which the city is arguing the federal government [...]
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch of the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the US Supreme Court . Trump stated : Judge Gorsuch has outstanding legal skills, a brilliant mind, tremendous discipline and has earned bipartisan support. … The qualifications [...]
A judge for the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals on Tuesday ordered the release of Turkish judge Aydin Sefa Akay who was detained in July. The order stresses that the Turkish government should release Akay and “cease all legal proceedings against” the judge before February 14 so that he can resume his role in [...]
In a statement Tuesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed “concerned the decisions that around the world have been undermining the integrity of the international refugee protection regime.” While he acknowledged that “ountries have the right, even the obligation, to responsibly manage their borders to avoid infiltration by members of terrorist organizations,” he stated that those [...]
Pakistani authorities on Monday placed militant leader Hafiz Muhammad Saeed under house arrest for his connection to the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the charity known as Jamaat-ud-Dawa . Saeed has been accused of orchestrating the infamous Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 . Though the US has set a $10 million reward for help with [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Joyce Lee Malcolm of George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School discusses the impact that a recent court opinion will have on Chicago residents and their Second Amendment rights… This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof…shall be the supreme Law of the Land; [...]
US President Donald Trump vowed on Tuesday to continue to enforce the executive order instated by Barack Obama that protects lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people working in federal institutions and contracts. A statement was issued by the White House to address growing concerns that Trump would reverse previous policy. “President Trump [...]
