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US District Court Judge Susan Paradise Baxter ruled Monday that Pennsylvania must count undated or misdated mail-in ballots, finding that rejecting such ballots violated the First Amendment. Plaintiffs Bette Eakin, Ines Massella, Fetterman for PA, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee filed suit against Pennsylvania’s 67 county boards of elections [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced on Friday that it would hear a case brought by Sudan seeking emergency measures against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the crime of genocide. Sudan alleges that the UAE has violated the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) by enabling [...]

An all-too-familiar federal judge to President Donald Trump ordered his administration on Thursday to preserve a set of text messages exchanged between high level government officials on the Signal messaging app, which contained sensitive military and strategic information that included targeted strikes in Yemen. The messages were exchanged over a period of four days between [...]

There’s much talk these days about democracy being under threat at home and around the world. Most of this discussion tends to be focused on efforts by autocrats and their supporters to erode the rule of law and the right to vote; their adoption of policies that discriminate against minorities and women; and their use [...]

In August 2021, the world watched as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, sweeping away two decades of progress toward democracy, human rights and gender equality. While international headlines have since moved on to other crises, millions of Afghan women and girls continue to live under increasingly restrictive policies that have systematically stripped away their [...]

On Sunday, I attended a training by the Diaspora Alliance about the worrying rise of instrumentalized antisemitism. The Diaspora Alliance describes instrumentalized antisemitism as the use by political actors of Jewish peoples’ legitimate fears in an antisemitic environment. The idea is, these actors will manipulate those fears to compel organized action ultimately aimed at shoring [...]

The news about the administration of Donald Trump using the messaging app Signal to plan military operations has galvanized many in the public. On March 24, reports emerged that beginning on March 11, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg had been added to a Signal group titled “Houthi PC small group”. The chat included various Cabinet members [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s recently redrawn voting map and its two Black-majority districts. Plaintiffs claimed that the map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). The civil rights era statute aimed to end voter suppression practices in southern states and specifically prohibits “the denial [...]

Voice of America employees filed an emergency motion on Monday to obtain a temporary restraining order to halt the Trump administration’s efforts to implement sweeping cuts at the federally funded broadcaster. The plaintiffs allege in the motion that the layoffs violate the First Amendment by targeting Voice of America’s editorial independence and claim that the [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday criticized the unlawful expulsion of 238 Venezuelan nationals from the United States to El Salvador, saying the action endangers their lives. The expulsion contravenes a court order, which barred removal of the Venezuelans. In response to the deportation in defiance of the court’s decision, Ana Piquer, Americas director at Amnesty International, [...]