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Human Rights Campaign (HRC), an LGBTQ+ rights group, declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the US on Tuesday in a new report that highlights the steep increase in laws and harassment targeting the LGBTQ+ community. This is the first time HRC, founded in 1980, has taken such an action. HRC president Kelley [...]

Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School.   Anti-choicers are continuing their march toward near-total control over reproductive health in the United States. Since the overturn of Roe v. Wade last June, anti-abortion proponents have turned their attention to trying to ban medication abortion and even birth [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Monday ordered the reinstatement of an appeal of a ruling regarding a Connecticut school policy on transgender students’ participation in sports. The ruling dismissed a claim that the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Association’s (CIAC) policy, which provides transgender student athletes with an opportunity to participate in athletic [...]

A coalition of 22 states Friday filed an amicus brief opposing a proposed preliminary injunction that would withdraw or suspend the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion medications Mifepristone and Mifeprex. The case is in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas Amarillo Division. The brief asserts that [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Friday that four cisgender girls do not have standing to challenge the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Association’s (CIAC) policy, which allows transgender athletes to compete in sports according to their gender identity. Judge Denny Chin authored the opinion from the three-judge panel. The court held that [...]

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Thursday rejected a bid to prevent New York City from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for teachers, firefighters and police officers. Sotomayor was unwilling to grant the emergency request, received on November 4, to block the policy. Petitioners brought the emergency request alongside their ongoing appeal of a lower [...]

European Parliament (EP) Thursday adopted its interim report wherein it declared Hungary as no longer a democracy with 433 votes for, 123 against, and 28 abstentions, and alleged Hungary is becoming a “hybrid regime of electoral autocracy.” In 2018, the EP passed a resolution asking EU member states to determine whether Hungary is at risk of [...]

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds Tuesday announced her administration would seek to reinstate a 2018 state law prohibiting abortion after six weeks, when embryonic cardiac activity is detected. The law was blocked by a state judge back in 2019 for violating the Iowa Constitution, but Reynolds’ administration is hoping that the recent Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s [...]

“History is an illustrious war against death.” – José Ortega y Gasset, Man and Crisis (1958) Afghanistan and “Palestine”: Newly Emerging Linkages At first glance, there are no obvious connections between the Taliban victory over the United States in Afghanistan and Palestinian terrorism against Israel. Upon closer inspection, however, the recent Taliban triumph reflects more [...]

The lower house of Poland’s parliament voted 228-216 to narrowly pass a media reform legislation on Wednesday that the US Department of State fears will “significantly weaken the media environment the Polish people have worked so long to build.” Stating that he is “deeply troubled” by the legislation, Secretary of State Antony Blinken emphasised the importance of media freedom [...]