West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey Thursday announced that his office plans to “fight for fairness in women’s sports” and will ask the US Supreme Court to lift an injunction on H.B. 3293, a law restricting transgender students from “participating on athletic teams” that match their gender identity. During a news conference, Morrisey stated that [...]

College students across Florida staged walkouts this week in protest of Governor Ron DeSantis’ proposal to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs and associated “belief systems” on college campuses. House Bill 999 targets diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and the study of critical race theory at public Florida universities. The bill includes a ban [...]

Human Rights Watch Thursday released a report arguing that Lebanese authorities have “failed to uphold the right to electricity by mismanaging the sector for decades”. The 127-page report, titled “‘Cut Off from Life Itself’: Lebanon’s Failure on the Right to Electricity,” asserts that the internationally-protected right to an adequate standard of living includes “the right [...]

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Thursday denied plotting to assassinate the president of the Russian-backed breakaway state Transnistria. The denial comes after the Transnistrian Ministry of State Security (MGB) said it thwarted an SBU-orchestrated terrorist attack targeting multiple Transnistrian government officials. The MGB claimed in its statement that a number of suspects in the [...]

Law Students for Climate Accountability (LSCA), a non-profit coalition of law students advocating for climate justice, Thursday released a report criticizing top US law schools with a disproportionate amount of graduates entering corporate fossil fuel legal positions. LSCA argued that fossil fuel lawyers often wreak havoc on the environment by lobbying against environmental regulations, drafting [...]

Freedom and democracy are slumping worldwide, trends spurred on by rising authoritarianism, media suppression, and myriad governments’ failures to adhere to the rule of law, advocacy group Freedom House warned in its 2023 Freedom in the World report, released Thursday. The annual report, which ranks the world’s countries and territories from most to least free, [...]

The so-called Anti-Homosexuality Bill, introduced to Uganda’s parliament on Thursday, seeks to ban all forms of homosexual relations, as well as vaguely described “related matters.” Under the legislation, introduced by Member of Parliament Asuman Basalirwa, individuals convicted of the “offense of homosexuality” would face 10 years in prison. Notably, this offense includes not only sexual [...]

An unidentified woman Wednesday filed a civil lawsuit against former Idaho Representative Aaron von Ehlinger and state Representative Priscilla Giddings for allegedly harassing her after disclosing that Ehlinger raped her when she was a teenager. The woman who filed the complaint brings claims that von Ehlinger and Giddings violated and conspired to violate her equal [...]

The US District Court for the Northern District of Florida Wednesday ruled that President Joe Biden’s alternatives to migrant detention programs are unlawful. The court relied on US Supreme Court precedent that only Congress, rather than the President, has “complete and absolute power” over immigration issues and “plenary power” over the “admission and exclusion of [...]

Georgia’s governing coalition Thursday agreed to withdraw a controversial ‘foreign agent’ bill after large civilian and international protests, according to an official Facebook page. The ruling Georgian Dream Party said they were in agreement with their partners in “unconditionally” withdrawing support for the bill. The post placed blame for the bill’s withdraw on the “machine [...]