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A former White House aide Tuesday told the US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack that former US President Donald Trump encouraged January 6 election protesters to go to the US Capitol despite knowing that some were armed with weapons ranging from rifles to bear spray and spears. Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to [...]

More than two years after gunman Gabriel Wortman went on a shooting spree that killed 22 people in rural Nova Scotia, questions of why and how this atrocity happened still weigh heavily on Nova Scotian hearts. Families of the victims and the citizens of Nova Scotia have demanded accountability from the authorities under whose watch [...]

A group of legal and political experts Monday testified before the US House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol that former President Donald Trump’s allegations of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election are unsubstantiated. The second day of publicized hearings included testimony from Trump senior advisor Jason [...]

The US Supreme Court Thursday rejected an emergency appeal that would have prevented the counting of 257 mail-in votes in an election for a Pennsylvania judgeship. The votes, which could tip the scale in the election, are contested on the grounds that their envelopes were not dated in violation of state election law. The election, [...]

The US Supreme Court Tuesday issued an order temporarily blocking the counting of some Pennsylvania mail-in ballots that do not have a handwritten date on their declaration forms. This US Supreme Court ruling, which did not include the Court’s reasoning, could affect the close Republican US Senate primary election in Pennsylvania between David McCormick and [...]

Lauren Ban is a rising 2L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and JURIST’s US Bureau Chief.  Pennsylvania’s primary elections took place May 17, some nine days ago now. Here’s what we know so far: the Democratic and Republican candidates for the gubernatorial race are decided, as is the Democratic candidate for the [...]

Republican US Senate candidate David McCormick Monday brought a lawsuit asking a Pennsylvania court to order counties to count undated mail-in ballots from the state’s May 17 primary. The ballots could impact the outcome of McCormick’s primary race against celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz. McCormick is less than 1,000 votes behind Oz. McCormick, a former [...]

Two US lawmakers introduced Wednesday draft resolution S. Res. 531, calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ) to investigate Russia and President Vladimir Putin for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The press conference to announce the draft resolution was held by US Senator Lindsey Graham and Congresswoman Victoria [...]

Interacting with the dead is no longer science fiction. Digital technologies have evolved to the extent that they can be—and are being used—to emulate the dead. During the last five years, media reports recount efforts of people who have tried and developed, with different degrees of success, chatbots based on a deceased person’s digital data: [...]

Voters, civil rights, and faith groups joined together to file two lawsuits against Alabama’s new state legislature and congressional district maps Monday. The civil rights groups involved include the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund (NAACP LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Alabama, and the Southern Poverty Law [...]