A Turkish court sentenced US consulate employee Metin Topuz to eight years and nine months on Thursday for aiding a 2016 coup attempt. In a statement released Thursday, the US embassy denounced the conviction. The statement claims that the trial lacked credible evidence to support conviction. Further, US embassy officials stated: The allegations made about [...]

Judge Jed Rakoff of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled on Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) must stop targeting those traveling to or at New York courthouses. The case stems from a 2019 lawsuit filed by authorities from the state of New York. They are attempting to [...]

Amnesty International launched a new resource Thursday based on the evidence collected by Crisis Evidence Lab on the misuse of tear gas by police and security forces around the world. The site includes explainers on how tear gas works, interviews with medical and human rights experts, how it is abused, and an incident map. Tear [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas on Tuesday granted a stay of execution for Ruben Gutierrez, a Texas death row inmate who was scheduled to die next week. Gutierrez has continually maintained his innocence in the 1998 murder of Escolastica Harrison when Gutierrez was 20. Harrison reportedly did [...]

US President Donald Trump issued sanctions against International Criminal Court (ICC) war crimes investigators on Thursday, months after the ICC approved an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war in Afghanistan. In the executive order, Trump claimed the investigation “threatens to subject current and former United States Government and allied officials [...]

The US Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday released a draft of a new regulation that would make it more difficult for migrants to claim asylum in the US. The departments propose to amend the current regulations that govern credible fear determinations so that any individual that has a credible fear [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday that the US Postal Service (USPS) 2018 rule that disallowed political content on custom stamps is unconstitutional. Since 2005, USPS has offered customers the opportunity to create their own customized stamps. In 2015 USPS established content requirements that were established and maintained [...]

Nearly 1,300 former US Department of Justice (DOJ) called Wednesday for an internal investigation into Attorney General William Barr’s role in the violent clearing of peaceful protesters outside the White House last week.   This DOJ Alumni letter was written in response to Barr ordering law enforcement to clear protesters out of Lafayette Square with [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit dismissed on Tuesday a lawsuit filed by a member of the Satanic Temple against a Missouri abortion law. Judy Doe, a member of the Satanic Temple, alleged that the informed-consent requirement violates her Satanist beliefs, as well as the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the [...]

Retired federal judge John Gleeson on Wednesday published an 82-page memo accusing the US Department of Justice (DOJ) of a “gross abuse of prosecutorial power,” and urging the court to reject the attempt to drop the criminal case against Michael Flynn. Gleeson also accused the attorney general of giving special treatment to a presidential ally [...]