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US Attorney General Merrick Garland Friday announced the appointment of a special counsel to oversee two criminal investigations into former President Donald Trump. Former International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Jack Smith will oversee investigations into whether on January 6, 2021, “any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday denied an application for stay and injunction, allowing the US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on the Capitol to obtain the phone and text records of Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward. Ward filed an emergency application for a stay and injunction on October 24, after a [...]

Former US president Donald Trump Friday filed a lawsuit against the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol and several members of the House of Representatives. Last month, the Committee issued a subpoena to compel Trump to hand over documents regarding his communications with several individuals connected to the attack. [...]

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Ciara Dinneny is a trainee with the Law Society of Ireland. She files this dispatch from Dublin. The Irish Government approved legislation last month that will provide for a payment scheme and [...]

The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Thursday instructed the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to dismiss Marjorie Taylor Greene’s lawsuit over a challenge to her congressional candidacy. Green maintained her candidacy eligibility and is presently on the Georgia ballot, making the dispute moot. In March, a group [...]

Justin Lindsay is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He served 10 years as an Officer in the United States Army. Threats to election safety are rising to a crescendo in the United States. The US “midterms” (called that because they occur between presidential [...]

“That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the entire Torah; the rest is commentary…: Rabbi Hillel, Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a Israel’s continuous support for Donald J. Trump represents a grim irony of Jewish history. Even before the latest revelations concerning this former president’s anti-Semitic outbursts (that is, his [...]

Opening arguments Monday began in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s criminal fraud case against the Trump Organization. Prosecutors claimed that the Trump Organization defrauded tax authorities for 15 years, while the Trump Organization legal team attempted to cast blame solely upon former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg. Susan Hoffinger led with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office [...]

Following a unanimous vote on October 13, the US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on the Capitol Committee Friday issued a subpoena to former President Donald Trump regarding his potential involvement in 2021 attack. The subpoena, signed by Chairman Bennie Thompson, discusses Trump’s false assertions of election fraud and their contribution to [...]

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states.  Panagiotis Lampropoulos is a recent graduate of the University of Bristol Law School (UK). He is currently doing a year of required military service in Greece.  On September 17, 2013, Pavlos Fyssas, [...]