Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday dismissed two judges from the country’s constitutional court, terming their actions a threat to national security. The move deepens the political crisis that emerged in October after the constitutional court canceled provisions of certain anti-corruption reform laws touted by Zelenskyy’s government. The judges dismissed are Oleksandr Tupytsky, the top [...]

Thousands of tribal people protesting the alleged killings of four teenagers broke through a police blockade Sunday in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (North-West Frontier) of Pakistan. The protesters were attempting to march to the capital Islamabad through the city of Bannu in order to demand a government probe into the deaths. They were carrying the [...]

The murder trial of Derek Chauvin—the white former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd—began on Monday, 10 months following Floyd’s death and the ensuing protests it sparked across the nation. In May, Chauvin, along with two other police officers, arrested Floyd for allegedly using a counterfeit bill in Minneapolis, Minnesota. During the arrest, [...]

The Arkansas Senate on Monday approved a bill that would ban access to gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Titled the “Arkansas Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act,” the legislation specifically prohibits “gender transition procedures for minors.” The bill would make it unlawful for any physician or other healthcare professional to “provide gender transition procedures to [...]

A court in Crimea sentenced a Jehovah’s Witness to 6.5 years in a penal colony Monday for violation of Russian law on membership in an extremist organization. The accused, Viktor Stashevskiy, was tried in the Gagarinsky District Court of the City of Sevastopol for continuing activities and promoting the ideas of Jehovah’s Witnesses, holding meetings [...]

The US Supreme Court released an unsigned opinion Monday in Mays v. Hines, summarily reversing a lower court decision that had ordered a new trial for a Tennessee death row inmate. In the opinion, the Supreme Court held that the evidence for conviction was straightforward. Anthony Hines was accused and found guilty of murdering Katherine [...]

JURIST law student staffers have drafted and launched a petition calling on law students worldwide to support Myanmar law students defending democracy, human rights and the rule of law following the February 1 military coup that led to the overthrow of the elected civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The petition demands that junta [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Goldman Sachs Group v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System. In this class action suit, Arkansas’ largest retirement fund and other shareholders claim to have lost more than $13 billion between 2007 and 2010, due to false statements in the bank’s regulatory filings and public comments. They allege [...]

Following the release of a report on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) in government, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Friday that they have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in order to gather details about how national security and intelligence agencies are using AI in ways that may violate people’s [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called upon Qatar Monday to eliminate discriminatory male guardianship rules that severely limit women’s rights to make life decisions. According to HRW’s report, women in Qatar are largely denied the ability to make decisions on things such as marriage, travel and reproductive health care. Women are required to obtain permission from [...]