The Justice Department has revealed that police in Phoenix violated the Constitution and federal law by discriminating against Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and others. Following a three-year investigation into allegations of brutality and discrimination, the department concluded that Phoenix police engaged in unlawful practice. These ...
The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a ban on bump stocks. It was enacted by the Trump administration after a 2017 deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas. By a 6-3 vote the justices found the Trump administration had exceeded its power when it prohibited an attachment that enables a semiautomatic rifle to fire at […]
Judge Ryan Nelson of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has recused himself from a case challenging the Biden administration’s Gaza policy. Nelson had participated in a judicial delegation that toured Israel. Plaintiffs, including Palestinian human rights organizations, and Palestinian and American nationals, argued Nelson’s involvement compr...
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has initiated an investigation into Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito over what is being called an “improper” interview with the Wall Street Journal. In it, Alito claimed Congress has no authority to regulate the Supreme Court. The statement was made just before revelations about a luxury fishing trip fu...
Wilmington, United States – AFP A jury found Hunter Biden guilty on Tuesday of federal gun charges in a historic first criminal prosecution of the child of a sitting US president. The 54-year-old son of President Joe Biden was convicted on all three of the counts facing him, CNN and other US media reported. Hunter […]
Steve Bannon, the former strategist of ex-president Donald Trump, has been ordered to begin his four-month prison sentence by July 1. A federal jury had found Bannon guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress in July 2022. In October, he was sentenced to four months in prison and ordered to pay a $6,500 fine. […]
The Columbia Law Review journal removed its entire website after publishing an article on the Nakba by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah, who is also a Harvard Law student. The Nakba, meaning “Catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to the mass displacement of Palestinians during Israel’s war on the region in 1947 and 48, whic...
Washington, United States – AFP US Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the Justice Department on Tuesday against what he called “repeated attacks” and conspiracy theories floated by Republican lawmakers. “I will not be intimidated,” Garland said in remarks at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee. ̶...
Pakistan’s Islamabad High Court has acquitted former prime minister Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the cipher case. IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb announced the verdict on Monday. This was after accepting the appeals of the former premier and diplomat against their convictio...
WASHINGTON, NEW YORK – AA / AFP Former US president Donald Trump vowed on Friday to appeal his criminal conviction for falsifying business records, saying that his legal team had several grounds to challenge the verdict handed down by a New York jury. “We’re going to be appealing this scam… on many different things,R...
