Alabama certified Democrat Doug Jones’ special election win over Republican Roy Moore Thursday, rejecting Moore’s Wednesday bid to halt such certifications and proceed with an investigation into election fraud. In a last ditch effort Wednesday night, Moore filed suit in the Alabama State Circuit Court of Montgomery County asking for the Alabama Secretary of State [...]
The US and Germany embassies released a statement on Wednesday urging China to release human rights activist Wu Gan, known as the “Super Vulgar Butcher,” who was sentenced to imprisonment for eight years for undermining governmental authority. According to the statement, the countries are both “deeply disappointed” by the imprisonment of Wu Gan , as [...]
Former Peru President Alberto Fujimori was pardoned by President Pedro Pablo Kuzynski on Sunday after serving almost half of a 25-year prison sentence for human rights abuses and corruption committed during his authoritarian regime in the 1990s. Fijumori, now 79 years old, received a medical pardon after being diagnosed with arrhythmia and tongue cancer. On [...]
The cities of New York, San Francisco, and Philadelphia filed a lawsuit on Friday against the US Department of Defense (DOD) for its failure to report criminal conviction records in the military justice system needed for the national gun background-check database. The support for filing the lawsuit comes after the US Air Force revealed that [...]
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction against President Trump’s third travel ban last Friday. The three-judge panel stated that under the Immigration and Nationality Act , the President must first “make a legally sufficient finding that the entry of the specified individuals would be ‘detrimental to the interests of the [...]
Over the course of the past week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has revoked a total of 25 Obama-era Department of Justice (DOJ) guidelines. Among them was a 2016 guideline that advised local courts to not hand down or enforce unnecessary and excessive fines on those without the means to pay them. The 2016 guideline was [...]
US District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Saturday ruled that the US must allow the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLUF) access to an American citizen being held in US military custody in Iraq. On or about September 12 of this year, the American detainee surrendered to Syrian Democratic Forces whereupon he was transferred to the [...]
Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: The Ugandan parliament voted on Wednesday to eliminate the presidential age limit of 75 years. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday marked its official closure with with a ceremony held in the Hague. Polish President Andrzej Duda signed judicial reform legislation [...]
Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: US President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law on Friday, making sweeping changes to US tax rates, exemptions and deductions. US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday denied the Trump Administration’s bid to forestall transgender recruits from military [...]
US President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law on Friday, making sweeping changes to US tax rates, exemptions and deductions. At the signing ceremony, Trump touted what he sees as the law’s promise, including providing incentives to business to invest in capital projects, increasing take-home pay for American workers and [...]
