JURIST Guest Columnist James G. Hodge, Jr. of The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, discusses forthcoming “repeal and replace” strategies regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and how replacements for its provisions must focus on assuring equitable access to quality care… On his first day in office, President Donald J. Trump [...]
A Pakistani man who was convicted of killing a cleric in 2002 can be executed , according to the Supreme Court of Pakistan Friday, despite having been diagnosed with schizophrenia. The court stayed the execution of Imdad Ali last October as his wife, Safia Bano, appealed the conviction on the grounds that he required treatment [...]
The Minister of Security and Justice for the Netherlands resigned Friday, making him the third member of the Dutch government to resign amid a scandal involving a USD $2.1 million deal made between prosecutors and a drug trafficker. Ard van der Steur is a member of Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s Liberal Party , which now [...]
Democrats in the California State Senate introduced a bill on Thursday that would make California the first state to include three gender options on state identification documents: male, female and non-binary. The bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Toni Atkins and co-written by Senator Scott Wiener . If passed, the Gender Recognition Act [...]
Military courts in Lebanon are trying civilians, including children, in matters regarding political activism and protest against the government, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Thursday. HRW said that 14 individuals who protested the 2015 waste management crisis are facing up to three years when their case goes before a military court on Monday. HRW argues [...]
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed HB 1032 into law on Thursday banning the most common abortion procedure employed in the second trimester of pregnancy—dilation and evacuation. Proponents of the law, titled “The Arkansas Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act,” called the procedure “barbaric” and stated that it required “dismemberment” of the fetus, while opponents [...]
Turkish citizens hae filed 5,363 cases in the European Court of Human Rights over a purge carried out by the Turkish government in response to July’s coup, according to the president of the court, Guido Raimondi . At a press conference on Thursday, Raimondi said that the number of cases from Turkey had dramatically increased [...]
The Slovenian parliament passed amendments to the Aliens Act to enact emergency measures to deny refugees entry into the country and to expel those whom did not have their asylum claims properly assessed on Wednesday. Amnesty International (AI) reported that refugees are entitled the protections being stripped by these amendments under international and EU law. [...]
The UN announced on Thursday that the independent panel charged with assisting in the investigation and prosecution of war crimes or crimes against humanity in Syria will be headed by a senior judge or prosecutor with extensive experience in criminal investigation and prosecution. The head of the panel, which is officially called the “International, Impartial [...]
An international lawyer alleged on Thursday that she was attacked by two Dutch police officers due to her race, leaving her in the hospital. The American lawyer, Chaka Laguerre, claims that she was “brutalised, arrested and thrown into jail” after two officers stopped her Tuesday morning for walking her bike across the road on a [...]
