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Texas Attorney General Ken Pax­ton filed a lawsuit Friday against the city of San Antonio for unlawfully using public funds to subsidize out-of-state abortion travel. This follows a similar injunction filed against the city of Austin in September. The San Antonio City Council recently approved $100,000 towards the city’s Reproductive Justice Fund (“the fund”) in [...]

  “In the end, we must depend upon creatures of our own making.” Goethe, Faust It’s clear and straightforward: the United States must avoid nuclear war or all other national obligations will become moot. It follows that all available fiscal and intellectual resources should be vested in this obligation. Prima facie, during the self-inflicted chaos [...]

Escalating protests and clashes between pro-monarchy protesters and security forces has prompted the Nepali government to impose a curfew in the Tinkune, Koteshwor and Sinamangal areas of Kathmandu on Friday afternoon. The curfew comes in response to rival protests turning violent, resulting in property damage and vandalism in various parts of the city. The curfew [...]

Facing recurrent cycles of terror-violence in a “state of nature,” Israel must defend itself in both law and strategy. Though generally unacknowledged, this dual-level defense could prove gainful not just for Israel, but also for other “civilized nations” in world politics. A patently core obligation, it is universal in scope and justice-seeking in objective. Multiple [...]

Hungary’s House of National Assembly voted to ban LGBTQI pride marches Tuesday. The law imposes fines on organizers and attendees of pride marches, citing child protection as the justification of the law. The parliament swiftly adopted the bill, one day after it was tabled in the parliament. Following the enactment, a protest took place outside [...]

A group of US probationary government employees who lost their jobs as part of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal workforce filed a lawsuit Tuesday, claiming the mass firings were illegal and should be reversed. The lawsuit was filed by employees from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of the Treasury, the Department [...]

Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got Till it’s gone — Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi (1970) Decades of my professional life have been devoted to the topic of expertise and experts — their qualifications, basis of knowledge, standards by which we evaluate them in court, and their proper [...]

On Friday, March 7, just ahead of the Jewish Sabbath, a South Carolina firing squad will shoot to death my longtime pen pal and friend Brad Sigmon. This will mark the first American firing squad execution to take place in 15 years. Accordingly, it will be the first since I co-founded the 3,800+-member-strong L’chaim! Jews [...]

In the article, Giuliana Himont, a postgraduate student at Nottingham University’s School of Law, explores the UK’s proposed Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill, introduced in the House of Lords.  Himont places this Bill within a global context of advancing responsible business practices, comparing it to similar European laws and [...]

A US federal judge held Saturday that President Donald Trump’s decision to terminate Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is unconstitutional. The Special Counsel’s Office protects the merit system in the federal civil service. The judge held that the Dellinger’s removal was not within Trump’s power and violated the removal [...]