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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 [...]

A lawsuit challenging the use of a commercial messaging app by members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet to coordinate military strike plans in Yemen was assigned on Wednesday to Judge James Boasberg, the same federal judge whose ruling on Venezuelan deportations to El Salvador recently sparked tensions between the White House and judiciary. The latest [...]

Part one of this series can be found here: Return of the Torture Monsters: Here We Go Again  Recently, the ACLU highlighted one of the torture architects of our past. In early 2002, then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice appeared in a video outlining then-President George W. Bush’s role in establishing the 54-country torture regime [...]

Part two of this series can be found here: Return of the Torture Monsters Part II: Remembering Abu Ghraib Pete Hegseth, confirmed by the Senate on January 24 as US President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense, gave noncommittal answers to two key questions at his confirmation hearing: 1) if the president ordered him to use [...]

The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced on Monday the transfer of 11 Yemeni detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison to Oman, marking a significant step in reducing the population of the detention facility. The DOD stated that the Periodic Review Board (PRB) “determined by consensus” that the detention of the Yemeni prisoners under the law [...]

The Pentagon announced Monday that the US has repatriated Guantánamo detainee Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi to Tunisia after more than two decades in detention. Al-Yazidi, identified as ISN 038, was transferred to Tunisia after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin informed Congress on January 31, 2024, 11 months prior, about the agreement reached for his repatriation. [...]

The US Congress on Thursday failed to pass a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights Act (NKHRA). The NKHRA reauthorization bill seeks to renew funding for humanitarian efforts in North Korea and reaffirms the key purposes of the law. Apart from renewing the funding, the reauthorization bill also criticizes the executive branch’s [...]

US President Joe Biden granted clemency Thursday to nearly 1,500 Americans in the largest single-day use of presidential clemency powers in modern US history. The action includes sentence commutations for approximately 1,500 people who were moved to home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with pardons for 39 individuals convicted of non-violent crimes. The bulk [...]

In the wake of a bitterly divisive election campaign, American citizens officially go to the polls on Tuesday, November 5. This is the seventh US election that JURIST has covered since 2000, when for 36 days this university-based legal news non-profit, then not even five years old, chronicled the highs and lows of the recount [...]

JURIST Editorial Director Ingrid Burke Friedman contributed to this report. In a decision that fell along starkly partisan lines, the US Supreme Court reversed the bribery conviction of former Portage, Indiana mayor James Snyder on Wednesday. The case, Snyder v. United States, involves James Snyder, the former mayor of Portage, Indiana. Snyder was convicted under 18 U.S.C. [...]