Search Results for: 2008-09-11

Federalist Society president Leonard Leo was subpoenaed by the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday as part of the committee’s ongoing ethics investigation into the Supreme Court. The subpoena was authorized by the committee in November of last year when Durbin stated their goal “has been to ensure that like all other federal judges, Supreme Court [...]

The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Kosovo officially set April 21 as the scheduled date for conducting referendums regarding the dismissal of four Albanian mayors from municipalities. These mayors, whose elections took place last year, have been a source of heightened tensions between Serbia and Kosovo.  Citizens of Serb-dominated municipalities, including North Mitrovica, Leposaviq, Zubin [...]

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Sunidhi Das, a JURIST Assistant Editor and a second-year student at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.    On February 27, 2002, a tragic incident unfolded at the Godhra station in Gujarat, India, when a train [...]

The Supreme Court of India allowed a petition by Bilkis Bano on Monday against the premature release of convicts involved in the 2002 Gujarat communal riots. The 11 individuals were charged with the gangrape and murder of Bano family members and convicted in 2008. The court concluded that the writ petition filed under Article 32 [...]

Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army Colonel who held key roles in government, including serving as Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005. Wilkerson played a role in preparing US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s presentation in 2003 at the United Nations in making the case for [...]

The Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights (CARDH) announced on Thursday that they would temporarily suspend their operations in Haiti due to escalating threats against its staff. CARDH has operated in Haiti since it was founded in 2008, but has steadily reduced its operations over recent months due to intensifying gang violence within [...]

Former President Donald Trump will stay on Colorado’s ballot as a state court judge ruled against disqualifying him from the 2024 presidential primary ballot on Friday. The decision comes as part of a series of lawsuits challenging Trump’s candidacy under the US Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment. While Denver District Court Judge Sarah B. Wallace ordered Colorado’s [...]

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Thursday told Reuters approximately 700 casualties occurred in the wake of clashes between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the city of El Geneina on November 4 and 5. The IOM further revealed that a hundred individuals were injured, and an additional 300 [...]

The father of the Constitution of India, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, emphasised the centrality of equality as a measure of societal progress when he stated, “I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.” In a significant stride toward advancing gender equality, the president of India gave assent to [...]

Conservationist groups Center for Biological Diversity and 350 Colorado filed a petition for review in the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Monday against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its air pollution practices. Specifically at issue in the petition is the EPA’s approval of parts of the 8-Hour Ozone Attainment [...]