The Missouri Supreme Court on Friday upheld an execution warrant for Marcellus Williams even though a prosecutor filed a pending motion beforehand to vacate Williams’s 2003 first-degree murder conviction and death sentence. The court initially issued a warrant of execution set for January 28, 2015. It later vacated the execution date after Williams petitioned for [...]

Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior told the Sindh High Court on Monday that its ban on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) was legitimate in light of national security concerns and that it did not violate Article 19 of the Pakistani Constitution. The Ministry explained to the High Court that X’s presence in Pakistan without [...]

The Delaware General Assembly on Sunday passed a constitutional amendment proposal restructuring the Delaware bail system. Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 11 passed in the Delaware House of Representatives by 32 – 8 after it passed the Delaware Senate unanimously. The proposed constitutional amendment amends Article 1, Section 12 of the Delaware Constitution. The [...]

The Texas Supreme Court upheld a statutory ban on gender-affirming care for minors on Friday. The plaintiffs are parents whose children are taking or intend to take gender-affirming care, licensed Texas physicians, and LGBTQ+ rights advocate groups. The defendants were various Texas officials and governmental bodies. The trial court granted the plaintiffs a temporary injunction [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal of a controversy between Hungary and Holocaust survivors over Hungary’s confiscation of their property during World War II. This will be the second time the US Supreme Court is hearing this case. Republic of Hungary v. Simon was initiated by fourteen Holocaust survivors in [...]

Togo’s High Authority for Audiovisual and Communication (HAAC) announced the end of its suspension of accreditation for foreign news organizations, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Friday. The decision comes two months after accreditations were suspended, something RSF called “a flagrant violation of press freedom.” French journalist Thomas Dietrich entered Togo to cover the political unrest [...]

Alabama inmate Alan Eugene Miller on Friday requested the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama block his scheduled nitrogen gas execution, which would be the second of its kind in US history. In 2000, Miller was sentenced to death for the murder of three people. Alabama law lets death row inmates choose [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday granted an en banc rehearing for a case about procedures for Ohio citizens proposing Ohio constitutional amendments through ballot initiatives. In order for an Ohio citizen: o get a proposed constitutional amendment on the Ohio ballot, petitioners must submit their amendment, a summary of [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Sunday upheld a Massachusetts public middle school’s prohibition against one of its students from wearing a shirt with a message critical of transgender ideology. The appeals court found the prohibition to be consistent with the free speech protections of the US Constitution’s First Amendment under [...]

South Korea started playing loudspeaker broadcasts towards North Korea on Saturday after trash balloons from North Korea entered South Korea. The trash balloons were sent around a week after North Korea already made an agreement with South Korea to stop sending the balloons. The Vice-Minister of National Defense of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), [...]