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Malaysia court rules opposition leader can challenge rejection of royal pardon

January 18, 2017 02:23:14 PM

The Malaysian court of appeal ruled Wednesday that jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim can continue challenging the rejection of his petition for a royal pardon. Anwar, the former deputy prime minister, is serving a five-year jail sentence for...

January 18, 2017 11:14:30 AM

US President Barack Obama granted 64 pardons and 209 commutations yesterday, including commuting the sentence of Chelsea Manning. Manning worked as a low-level intelligence analyst where she leaked documents regarding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in 2010...

December 15, 2016 12:13:11 PM

A Malaysian federal court on Wednesday rejected a final appeal by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to set aside his sodomy conviction. Anwar was convicted of sodomy in 2014 and sentenced to a five-year jail term. This...

September 23, 2016 03:52:53 PM

Chelsea Manning, a former US soldier imprisoned for leaking classified documents, was sentenced on Thursday to two weeks of solitary confinement as a punishment for a suicide attempt, as well as for keeping a banned book in her quarters. According...

September 16, 2016 12:05:41 PM

A Swedis appellate court in Stockholm on Friday upheld the arrest warrant and detention order issued six years ago against Julian Assange . The warrant, which Assange has challenged multiple times, was issued in 2010...

September 15, 2016 09:57:13 AM

Chelsea Manning ended her five-day hunger strike Wednesday after the Army agreed to allow her to undergo gender reassignment surgery. Manning, a former military private serving a 35-year prison sentence on an espionage conviction...

September 10, 2016 01:23:51 PM

Chelsea Manning, a former US soldier imprisoned for leaking classified documents, has gone on a hunger strike to protest her mistreatment at the Fort Leavenworth facility in Kansas where she has been imprisoned since her conviction in military...

August 7, 2016 09:23:09 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Albert E. Scherr of University of New Hampshire School of Law discusses Donald Trumps's recent statements...The spectacle of Donald Trump's invitation to the Russian government to either hack Hillary Clinton's e-mail or provide to him the results...

July 29, 2016 10:48:13 AM

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Thursday that Chelsea Manning is being investigated for charges in relation to her recent attempt at suicide. Manning, the Army solider convicted of releasing classified and sensitive military...

May 26, 2016 08:33:29 AM

The Stockholm District Court upheld the arrest warrant for Julian Assange on Wednesday, finding he was not illegally detained in absentia. Assange has been held on allegations of rape dating back to...

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UK parliament rejected J.S. Mill's proposal to give women the vote

On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

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On May 20, 1940, the United States Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment applied to state governments in Cantwell v. Connecticut under the incorporation doctrine, which applied the protections of the Bill of Rights to state governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learn more about the Incorporation Doctrine from the Cornell Law Schools' Legal Information Institute.