International Religious Freedom Summit Fails to Mask Trump’s Scorn for Human Rights
From degrading disabled people, women, LGBT individuals, and other minorities to the forsaking of the United Nation Human Rights Council, and from separating migrant families to the coddling of authoritarians and racists, this presidency consistently ridicules human rights. It follows that the State Department’s first international conference to Advance Religious Freedom might trigger a collective [...]
Among several noteworthy and interrelated Helsinki summit policy derelictions – most obviously, Vladimir Putin’s still unpunished aggressions in Crimea – US President Donald Trump chose to ignore America’s binding legal obligations regarding Russian war crimes in Syria. This sorely evident disregard reflects not “merely” willful antipathy to pertinent international law, but also a concurrent indifference [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Karla McKanders of the Vanderbilt University Law School discusses a recent decision issued by the Attorney General and its implications on the judicial immigration process… Yesterday, in Matter of Castro-Tum, the Attorney General issued a decision unilaterally overturning two precedential immigration decisions; Matter of Avetisyan, 25 I&N Dec. 688 (BIA 2012), Matter [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists, Sarah Wetter and James G. Hodge, Jr. of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, discuss preemptive legal schemes that deprive states and localities of opportunities to implement efficacious interventions to advance public health......
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl pleads guilty to desertion, misbehavior before enemy
Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl pleaded guilty on Monday to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. Appearing before a military judge in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Bergdahl said that understood that his actions violated the law. Bergdahl walked off his...
JURIST Guest Columnist Leigha A. Weiss, a 3L at St. John's School of Law, discusses new technology that could help with pretrial release of the indigent defendant ... Johnathon Sacks, a renowned British Rabbi, philosopher and scholar, said: "technology gives...
Tunisia ends law banning Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men
On Thursday, Tunisia's presidency spokeswoman, Saida Garrach, announced that the country's ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslim men has come to an end. The prior law had required men to convert to Islam and submit a certificate of the conversion...
UN: Ukraine tensions continue to flare despite recent decrease in civilian deaths
Last month marked a welcome trend in the Ukrainian conflict, with civilian deaths decreasing for the first time in three years, according to a report released Tuesday by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights...
El Salvador strikes down part of family code permitting child marriage
The El Salvador Legislative Assembly unanimously voted on Thursday to eliminate a law that allowed men to marry minors that they had impregnated. The legal age to marry in El Salvador was 18 even before...
Senate passes legislation imposing new sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea
In a 98-2 vote , the US Senate on Thursday passed H.R. 3364 , a bill that imposes new sanctions on Russia. This development comes two days after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly...
