The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania released a map on Monday intended to remedy what the court declared as the unconstitutional gerrymandering present in the 2011 redistricting plan. While the court gave the legislature 18 days...
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) released two letters on Thursday stating that it would consider requests from two Congressional Representatives to release the hearing transcripts which caused former Trump advisor Carter Page to be...
A federal grand jury in Washington, DC, indicted 13 Russian citizens and three Russian organizations for interfering in the 2016 US presidential election. The indictment alleges that the citizens were working with the organizations. All 16 defendants...
Human Rights Watch urged Liberia's new president George Weah in a letter Monday to investigate and prosecute atrocities committed during Liberia's recent civil wars. Liberia experienced civil war from 1989-1996 and 1999-2003....
The Supreme Court of Ireland formally ruled in a unanimous decision on Friday that the complete employment ban on asylum seekers was unconstitutional. Chief Justice Frank Clark said the ban is...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Monday denied a request to stay a Pennsylvania Supreme Court order to redraw the 2011 congressional map. If granted, the stay would have blocked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's ruling [opinion,...
Federal district judge Sam Cummings on Thursday ruled that an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guideline limiting employers' use of criminal background checks in the hiring process is unenforceable. Texas, the plaintiff, claimed that the...
The UN expressed concern Thursday about human rights abuses in Mali despite the Malian government signing a peace agreement in 2015 with several armed groups. The UN monitored the situation in Mali from January 2015 to...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Sudanese government on Monday to immediately release peaceful protesters from detention or grant them full due process. The demonstrators were arrested while protesting Sudan's 2018 budget, which triples the...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized the government of Sri Lanka on Monday for not repealing its "Draconian" counterterrorism law. HRW accused the government of using the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to arbitrarily detain...