The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday introduced the new Conscience and Freedom of Religion Division . The purpose of this program is to reinforce preexisting legislation protecting “fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious freedom.” Other forms of enforcement authority include Church, Coates-Snow, and Weldon Amendments , on abortion, Section [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a memo Wednesday outlining policy changes to help combat the caseload backup throughout immigration courts over the past few years. This memo seeks to address the former policies that added confusion and ambiguity to the immigration court process and according to DOJ spokesperson Devin O’Malley, “contribute to a [...]
The UK House of Commons voted 324-295 on Wednesday to pass the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill , also known as as the “Brexit” bill, after concluding its third and final reading of the bill. This is the primary bill that the parliament must pass to successfully accomplish UK’s withdrawal from the EU, and, among other [...]
A bipartisan group of senators unveiled an immigration proposal on Wednesday as more Republicans offered support for immigration reform. Senator Lindsey Graham announced that Republican Senators Susan Collins (ME), Lamar Alexander (TN), Lisa Murkowski (AK) and Mike Rounds (SD) will join Republicans Graham, Jeff Flake (AZ) and Cory Gardner (CO) in backing the Immigration Reform [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Wednesday: one concerning overtime-pay, and another concerning constitutional protections to criminal defendants. The first case, Encino Motorcars v. Navarro , asks the court two questions. First, whether the overtime-pay requirement under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) applies to “service advisors” at a car [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Tuesday. Hall v. Hall questions which judgments are final under Rule 42 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Rule 42 refers to the consolidation of cases versus separate trials. If actions involve a common question of law or fact, sometimes courts can join a [...]
Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed Tuesday to complete the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya within two years. According to a statement released by the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the repatriation will be completed within two years from the commencement. Under this agreement, Bangladesh will establish five camps. They will then move the Rohingya [...]
Attorneys general from 21 states and the District of Columbia filed a Protective Petition for Review in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday asking the court to review the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision to rescind net neutrality laws that prohibited internet service providers (ISPs) from deliberately blocking [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday that it plans to seek Supreme Court review of a trial court’s decision to block the rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which gives undocumented immigrants brought into the US as children, known as “Dreamers,” protection from deportation. The DOJ also filed a [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Mohit Gupta of South Asian University discusses the legacy of the ICTY… International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), an ad hoc international criminal tribunal established by mandate from United Nations Security Council officially came to its end on December 21, 2017. The tribunal was created in response to atrocities committed [...]
