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Marissa Zupancic is JURIST’s Washington DC Correspondent, a JURIST Senior Editor and a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She’s stationed in Washington during her Semester in DC. Today I attended oral arguments at the US Supreme Court for Trump v. US, a case concerning whether a president has absolute immunity after they [...]

North Korea announced Tuesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was gifted a Russian-made Aurus limousine by Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to state-owned broadcasting service KCNA. Russia handed the limousine to North Korean Secretary Pak Jong Chon and Deputy Department Director Kim Yo Jong on Sunday. The UN Security Council expanded sanctions it [...]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced Monday that North Korea will no longer pursue reconciliation with South Korea and called for a constitutional change to identify South Korea as the “number one hostile state,” according to the state-controlled Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Kim claimed that reconciliation between the two states is not possible [...]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Thursday that the U.S. State Department has imposed sanctions on one individual and three Russian entities engaged in transferring and testing North Korea’s ballistic missiles, intended for use by Russia against Ukraine. The entities and individual subject to US-imposed sanctions include the 224th Flight Unit State Airlines, [...]

“The conflict is long. The conflict is brutal. The conflict is intense,” said David M. Crane, formerly a chief war crimes prosecutor with the UN. Global Accountability Network , an organization Crane founded to monitor atrocities around the globe, has been following the war since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. GAN has meticulously documented [...]

North Korea’s government Wednesday recognized two breakaway states claiming internationally-recognized Ukrainian territory as independent. North Korea is the third country to recognize the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, after Russia and Syria. Ukraine, and much of the international community, recognizes them as part of Ukraine. On February 22, two days before Russia [...]

The US House Committee on Oversight and Reform expanded its investigation Friday into former President Donald Trump’s removal, loss, and destruction of presidential records. Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney sent a letter to National Archivist David Ferriero requesting additional information relating to Trump’s handling of those records. In the letter, Maloney stated: The National Archives [...]

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) confirmed Friday that it found classified documents among 15 boxes former President Donald Trump took from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago residence. US National Archivist David Ferriero confirmed the finding in response to a letter from Carolyn Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform for [...]

Credo quia absurdum. “I believe because it is absurd.” -Tertullian Macrocosm and Microcosm One thing is certain. If Donald J. Trump should decide to run again, various condemnations and justifications would instantly spring forth from absolutely every segment of the political spectrum. The deepest and truest explanations, however, would not be discoverable in day-to-day politics. [...]

Seoul-based rights group Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG) released a report Wednesday on human rights abuses in North Korea. The report, titled “Mapping Killings under Kim Jong-un: North Korea’s Response to International Pressure” pulls information from six years of research and 683 escapee interviews to track killing sites, mass graves, and other locations which may contain [...]