Search Results for: 2015-06-01

US Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) filed a lawsuit Monday against the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin attempting to block the federal...

Under the auspices of combating terror, the Bush administration took many steps following 9/11 that according to some have curtailed civil rights. Chief among these was the passage of the USA Patriot Act of 2001, which was signed by Bush...

The international response to the crisis in Syria has been mixed since the conflict began in 2011. While Assad maintains some international support, much of the world has condemned his regime's response to the protests against his regime since the...

Protests in Syria began as candlelight vigils in early February 2011, a sympathetic response to the escalating rebellion in Egypt. HRW released the first reports of violence against demonstrators on February 9, 2011, and stated that Syrian activists were urging...

While the Syrian conflict began during the Arab Spring of 2011, it was fueled by decades of political oppression. On March 6, 2011, schoolchildren, inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Libya, graffitied anti-Bashir al-Assad messages on several buildings in Daraa....

Maxwell Slackman, George Mason University School of Law

Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn on Tuesday signed the most restrictive fracking legislation in the country into law. The bill was a joint effort between government and industry specialists and is receiving high praise ...

The New York State Assembly on Wednesday approved a bill imposing an over two-year ban on fracking , or hydraulic fracturing, in the state. The measure was passed by a margin of 95...

The State Council Information Office (SICO) of China said Wednesday that they are in the process of drafting a new human rights plan to be fully implemented by 2015. Declaring the National Human Rights Action...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit decided Thursday there is no conflict with the Anti-Injunction Act (AIA) and that it can rule on two challenges to the health care reform [text; JURIST news...