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International human rights organizations called upon the Kenyan government on Tuesday to halt illegal and forceful evictions in the Mau Forest, located in the Rift Valley of Kenya. Amnesty International, the Minority Rights Group International and Survival International stated that more than 700 people have been displaced from the Mau Forest and urged that the [...]

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US federal prosecutors in Brooklyn Tuesday indicted a fundraiser for the Donald Trump campaign on multiple charges amidst allegations that he illegally lobbied on behalf of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Thomas Barrack, the owner of a private equity firm, DigitalBridge Group has been charged with receiving funds from the UAE amounting to $374 million [...]

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Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a law student in Kabul reports on recent developments in the Taliban’s treatment of women in Afghanistan. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding his name. The text has only been lightly edited to [...]

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The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held Thursday that Michigan’s redistricting commission can bar people with political connections from serving on the commission. In 2018 61 percent of Michigan voters approved a constitutional amendment that creates a 13-person commission to draw the state legislative districts following the 2020 election. The amendment prohibits [...]

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Four conservative lobbyists filed suit in federal court on Wednesday seeking to block Nevada Governor Stephen Sisolak’s COVID-19 emergency orders. The lawsuit calls the shelter-in-place order a “draconian” restriction on Nevadans’ rights, alleging violations of plaintiffs’ due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and plaintiffs’ right to petition under the First Amendment to [...]

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A redacted memorandum opinion from the US District Court for the District of Columbia unsealed Monday revealed that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating a potential bribery scheme for a presidential pardon. On November 25, the government submitted a status report asking that the record remain unsealed. After the court directed the government [...]

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Southern Ohio US Attorney Dave DeVillers has announced the arrest of Republican Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder in connection with “what is likely the largest bribery-money laundering scheme ever perpetrated against the people of the state of Ohio.” Lobbyists Juan Cespedes and Neil Clark, along with former Ohio Republican Party Chair Matt Borges and Householder adviser [...]

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