This dispatch was co-authored by Divyabharthi Baradhan (JURIST Staff, Malaysia) and Sarisha Harikrishna (Queen’s University Belfast School of Law, United Kingdom). In a landmark ruling, the Permanent People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan (the Tribunal) on December 11 in the Hague, Netherlands, found that the Taliban de facto authorities have committed crimes against humanity under [...]
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to end its six-month federalization of the California National Guard, ruling the deployment lacks legal justification. US federal law (10 USC § 12406) permits the president to federalize National Guard troops only when the nation faces invasion, rebellion, or the president is unable to execute federal [...]
The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. Two high-profile extradition cases unfolding this month highlight India’s obligations under domestic and international law: the potential extradition of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India back to her home country, and India’s efforts to extradite diamond merchant Mehul [...]
A coalition of civil and human rights organizations is calling for the closure of a massive immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, Texas, alleging guards have beaten detainees and threatened violence, criminal charges and imprisonment in attempts to coerce even non-Mexican migrants into crossing the border into Mexico. The groups, including the ACLU and Human [...]
Noor Ul Huda is a JURIST staff correspondent in Pakistan and a recent graduate of Punjab University Law College. She files this dispatch from Lahore. A profound constitutional crisis is gripping Pakistan. Two of the country’s most respected Supreme Court justices, Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Athar Minallah, have resigned in protest, declaring that the [...]
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that New York cannot, at least for now, regulate statements by faith-based pregnancy centers promoting “abortion pill reversal,” finding their speech is likely protected under the First Amendment. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a preliminary injunction blocking Attorney General Letitia James from pursuing enforcement actions against three [...]
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a lawyer who represented US President Donald Trump in a number of civil and criminal matters between his first and second presidencies cannot serve as acting US attorney for the District of New Jersey. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals found the Trump administration’s efforts to install Alina Habba [...]
A federal judge on Monday dismissed criminal indictments against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that the prosecutor who secured the charges was appointed unlawfully. Judge Cameron McGowan Currie of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found that Attorney General Pam Bondi exceeded her [...]
Israeli military operations in the northern West Bank constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday in a report documenting the forced displacement of approximately 32,000 Palestinians from three refugee camps beginning in January 2025. The report charges that Israeli forces carried out mass forcible displacements as part of a [...]
President Donald Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law Wednesday, one day after the Senate passed the legislation by unanimous consent, requiring the Department of Justice to publicly release all unclassified records related to Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days. The House on Tuesday had voted 427 to 1 to pass the bill. Hours [...]
