The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday overturned a decision allowing the United States Justice Department to withhold records concerning former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates’ 2017 refusal to defend former President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting seven Muslim-majority nations. As one of his firsts acts as president, [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Thursday unanimously denied former president Donald Trump’s effort to block the National Archives from turning over his White House records to the House of Representatives Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot. On January 6, 2021, a mob of Trump supporters attacked the US [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a government ban on firearm accessories known as bump stocks, a device that modifies semi-automatic rifles to fire more rapidly, in Gun Owners of Am., Inc. v. Garland Friday. The Trump Administration outlawed bump stocks after a 2017 shooting in Las Vegas where the rapid-fire [...]
Two elections workers from Fulton County, Georgia filed a defamation lawsuit on Thursday against The Gateway Pundit, a popular far-right website that allegedly spread false accusations that the workers committed mass voter fraud. The lawsuit specifically names The Gateway Pundit’s owner Jim Hoft and his brother Joe Hoft, a contributor to the site. Among other [...]
The Second Chamber of the Federal Criminal Court in Buenos Aires opened a case against the Myanmar military Saturday over atrocities committed against the Rohingyas. In 2017, the Myanmar military and its proxies launched a vicious campaign in the region. A report by the Anadolu Agency shows that nearly 24,000 Rohingya Muslims were killed, 34,000 [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday temporarily suspended its investigation into suspected abuses committed by Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte during his crackdown on drugs. In February 2018, the ICC authorized a preliminary probe into alleged rights abuses committed by President Duterte as a result of a complaint filed with the court accusing the President [...]
A grand jury in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey Wednesday convicted three El Salvadoran nationals on various Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) charges, including murder in aid of racketeering. The three mens’ crimes stem from their participation in Mara Salvatrucha, a violent international criminal racketeering enterprise commonly known [...]
A New York State court in Manhattan held Friday that the Trump Organization does not need to pay millions of dollars in legal bills to Trump’s former fixer and attorney, Michael Cohen. In March 2019, Cohen filed a lawsuit against the Trump Organization, claiming that the Organization owed him at least $1.9 million in legal fees [...]
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case with critical implications for the Highway Beautification Act. City of Austin v. Reagan Advertising considers whether the Austin city code’s distinction between on-premise signs, which may be digitized, and off-premise signs, which may not, is a facially unconstitutional content-based regulation under the First [...]
Two death row inmates in Japan filed suit Friday against the country over Japan’s practice that has prisoners receive a notification only hours before their death penalty sentence is carried out. The inmates are demanding change and seeking 22 million yen in compensation for the impact of the “extremely inhumane” practice. The prisoners filed a [...]
