A US federal grand jury indicted five Memphis Police Department officers involved in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols on Tuesday on four new federal criminal charges. The same officers also face Tennessee state charges under a grand jury six-count indictment handed down earlier this year. All five have already pleaded not guilty to the [...]
Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who lived in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she is a rising 2L. Following seven months of protests the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) Monday passed the first of its proposed and highly controversial reform bills. The bill seeks to restrict the [...]
Chairman-elect of the Israel Bar Association Amit Bechar said in a live-streamed meeting Sunday the Association will petition the Israeli Supreme Court to cancel the Israeli Knesset’s decision on the “reasonableness doctrine” if the reform passes in a vote expected Monday. Bechar also announced that the Bar Association may cease providing services to its members [...]
Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who lived in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she is a rising 2L. As of early Sunday morning, more than 300,000 protestors have gathered in major cities across Israel prior to the final debate on the reasonableness standard reform. that [...]
Sharon Basch is a rising 2L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The most recent spate of United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decisions handed down late last week have left American citizens more divided than ever. Within the last few years, the US Supreme Court has seen a large volume of what are [...]
A French Parliamentary report leaked to the French press Thursday claimed Marine Le Pen’s far-right party “Rassemblement national” knowingly spread Kremlin talking points. Le Pen called the report “sectarian, dishonest and politicized,” despite the fact that it was Le Pen herself who demanded an investigation into foreign interference in French politics. Le Pen is known [...]
Israeli officials Sunday arrested Jordanian parliament member Imad al-Adwan for allegedly smuggling over 200 weapons and an estimated six million dollars worth of gold into the West Bank. Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sinan al-Majali issued a statement saying that “the ministry and all relevant agencies in the kingdom are working to ascertain the details [...]
A Delaware court Tuesday began hearing the defamation case between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News Network. Tuesday morning, Judge Eric Davis finalized jury selection and appointed a special master. By 1:30 PM EST, the court expected to begin opening statements. However, when court resumed after a significant delay around 4:00 PM EST, the parties [...]
Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who spent the last two years living in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Following the firing of Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant Saturday, tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets all over Israel. Protestors in Tel Aviv blocked the [...]
Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who spent the last two years living in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. In a short national TV address Saturday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called for the immediate suspension of pending judicial overhaul legislation as well as an immediate stop [...]
