Brazilian President Michel Temer said Sunday that he will block a controversial bill that would grant amnesty to politicians who received illegal campaign donations. Temer, along with Speaker of the Lower House of Congress, Rodrigo Maia, and Speaker of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, stated that it would be “impossible” to sanction such a proposal and [...]
The Parliament of Iraq on Saturday voted to give militias fighting Islamic State” (IS) militant group legal status in the country. The 208 votes allow Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd Al-Sha’abi) to fight the militant group throughout the country as long as they keep their identity and character . The bill legitimizes and recognizes the militia [...]
Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a referendum to phase out the nation’s nuclear power program. The referendum failed with 54.2 % of voters agreeing to keep nuclear power programs with only 45.8 % voting to do away with nuclear options. The referendum was sponsored by the Green party of Switzerland who hoped to remove nuclear [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Markus Rauschecker of University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law discusses the effects of a new Chinese cybersecurity law and the need for response by the US Congress… China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress recently adopted a new comprehensive cybersecurity law. Throughout its drafting the law has been [...]
A lawyer for Hillary Clinton on Saturday announced that the Clinton campaign is joining Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s recount in Wisconsin, and the campaign promised it will look into allegations of voter fraud. General counsel Marc Elias , in a post on blog website Medium, responded to the “hundreds of messages, emails, and calls [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave his condolences to the Cuban people and the family of the nation’s former President Fidel Castro, who passed away late Friday night. Ban spoke on the last conversation he had with Castro in January 2014 where the two discussed climate change, sustainable development, and other global developments. Ban applauded Castro’s [...]
The government refused a plea offer from accused white supremacist Dylann Roof on Friday. Roof, the man charged with killing nine black church members attending Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, offered to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life in prison. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced her decision in May to pursue the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Hilary Bricken, of Canna Law Group, discusses the Trump administration and how it could impact the status of cannabis at the state level… With a recent Gallup poll showing 60 percent of Americans favor cannabis legalization, it should come as no surprise that eight out of nine states voted for marijuana legal [...]
A 66-year-old woman and six-year-old boy have died in a fire in the Greek migrant camp of Moria on Lesbos, causing some experts to question humanitarian conditions at several Grecian migrant camps. Two others were seriously burned in the fire which is suspected to have been caused by an accidental gas canister explosion. The fire [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Don Resnikoff of Counsel to Rubin PLLC discusses the need for injunctive relief in the ATM anti-trust case … JURIST previously reported that the US Supreme Court published an order stating that it would no longer hear the appeal in two antitrust suits by ATM operators and consumers against Visa, MasterCard and [...]
