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A standing committee of the State Bar of Texas filed a complaint in the District Court of Dallas County, Texas against former president Donald Trump’s attorney Sidney Powell, claiming that she engaged in misconduct by pursuing baseless lawsuits alleging fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The complaint, which was filed on March 1, was released [...]

The US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced Tuesday that Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio was arrested in Miami after being named Monday in an indictment in the related to the January 6, 2021 insurrection. The Proud Boys are a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) designated hate group with violent white supremacist [...]

Abstract: Earlier, as part of Russia’s escalating aggression against Ukraine – an aggression that now includes armed attack on a nuclear power plant – President Vladimir Putin placed his nuclear forces on high alert. Correspondingly, the United States should now recalibrate how best to “play” the increasingly complex “games” of military nuclear strategy. Most worrisome, [...]

The House Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol said Wednesday that there was enough evidence to conclude that former President Donald J. Trump and some of his allies might have conspired to commit fraud and obstruction by misleading Americans about the outcome of the 2020 election and attempting to overturn the result. According [...]

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) confirmed Friday that it found classified documents among 15 boxes former President Donald Trump took from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago residence. US National Archivist David Ferriero confirmed the finding in response to a letter from Carolyn Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform for [...]

The US District Court for the District of Columbia denied former President Donald Trump’s motion Friday to dismiss three lawsuits seeking to hold him accountable for the January 6 US Capitol Attack of 2021 (“Jan 6 Attack”). In doing so, the judge held Trump lacked absolute immunity and First Amendment protection. The plaintiffs, who include [...]

President Joe Biden Tuesday ordered the National Archives to send the Trump White House visitor logs to a House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, rejecting former President Donald Trump’s executive privilege claims. In January, National Archives provided the Trump White House visitor logs to Biden’s White House. The documents [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week. Here, 2L Brad Henderson reports. On Thursday Ontario’s Attorney General successfully petitioned the Ontario Superior Court to issue an order pursuant to section 490.8 of Canada’s [...]

Ghanian authorities Tuesday fined Spanish company Maxam $6 million for transport law violations following an explosion that killed 13 people. The truck owned by the Maxam Ghana branch was transporting explosives to the Chirano gold mine in January when a collision with a motorcycle caused an explosion in the village of Apiate, killing 13 people and [...]

Credo quia absurdum. “I believe because it is absurd.” -Tertullian Macrocosm and Microcosm One thing is certain. If Donald J. Trump should decide to run again, various condemnations and justifications would instantly spring forth from absolutely every segment of the political spectrum. The deepest and truest explanations, however, would not be discoverable in day-to-day politics. [...]