Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated following terrorist attacks in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 28 civilians. India accuses Pakistan of sponsoring these attacks, threatening several countermeasures. India has suspended the Indus Water Treaty, and in response, Pakistan has closed its airspace to Indian international flights. It is feared that India might strike Pakistan with [...]
The First Amendment is the crown jewel of the United States Constitution, which is in danger of being pulled out of the crown. The Amendment safeguards a range of liberties, including religious freedom, the right to assemble, and the right to petition the government. However, the words “Congress shall make no law … abridging the [...]
On November 19, President Vladimir Putin announced a revised nuclear strike doctrine that escalated the consequences of the Ukraine-Russia conflict. The Russian nuclear strike has become much more probable than before. The NATO countries, particularly the United States, should not dismiss what Putin says as mere threatening rhetoric but should accept it at its face [...]
Voter anomalies are part of the election process, and rarely are elections problem-free. Retail anomalies are voting irregularities committed by individuals, such as duplicate voting, impersonation, voting in the name of dead people, or voting by felons and noncitizens. Election officials may also perpetrate retail anomalies by preventing individuals from voting. Retail anomalies in a [...]
Far-right movements gaining popularity in many European countries are primarily anti-immigrant and anti-Islam. This study examines Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a far-right political party in Germany. Founded in 2013, the party launched the AfD manifesto, a public document approved at its Federal Party Congress held in Stuttgart from April 30 to May 1 2016. Presently, [...]
Minutes before a New York jury convicted Donald Trump on thirty-four counts of falsifying business records, I had posted the following on social media: Many trial watchers were curious whether the law would prevail over mathematics. Here, I explain why mathematics predicted a hung jury. I also explain how legal realism theories that the Trump [...]
Can a country’s citizens nullify the criminal cases that a popular leader faces by handing them an electoral victory in the general elections? This question raises issues that could prove pivotal to the political processes in Pakistan and the US, pertaining respectively to their former prime minister Imran Khan and former President Donald Trump. Its [...]
On a writ of certiorari to the Colorado Supreme Court, the U. S. Supreme Court will likely decide whether former President Donald Trump (Trump) is disqualified under the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3 (Section Three) from running in the 2024 general election for engaging in insurrection on January 6, 2021. A key argument against disqualification attacks [...]
For nearly the past decade, a surveillance site has been running broad net sweeps through the entirety of the American professoriate in a bid to name and shame those critical of Israeli policies in the occupied territories of Gaza, West Bank, and Golan Heights. Asserting its aim is to combat anti-Semitism by informing the public [...]
Following global practice — including that of the U.S. military justice system — the Pakistan Army Act builds on maintaining good order and discipline among service members, as no military can effectively function without strict discipline. The court-martial, that is, trial by military officers of breaches of service-connected discipline, including crimes, sits at the heart [...]
