Category: Law & Courts
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Representative Rashida Tlaib has called for the arrest of an Israeli soldier linked to the killing of Hind Rajab, the five-year-old girl whose death in Gaza in 2024 became internationally known. What a legislator can and cannot set in motion.
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on the use of race in school admissions. Agreeing to hear a case is itself a decision, and what the court chooses to take up is often a better signal than how it eventually rules.
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Three men have been sentenced to 158 years each in Ensenada for the 2024 killings of two Australian brothers and an American surfer. The number is arithmetic rather than theatre — and the conviction rate for homicide in Mexico is the context around it.
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Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation naming Israel Katz and twelve senior officials over the alleged mistreatment of flotilla detainees. What an investigation of this kind can and cannot reach — and why most never get to a courtroom.
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A federal judge has ruled the president cannot exclude news organisations from the White House because he dislikes their coverage — for now. There is no right to a seat; the restriction is on the reason for taking one away.
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Russia has detained Hokkaido Shimbun correspondent Yuki Imai in Sakhalin on espionage charges carrying up to twenty years. No evidence has been published, and Russian espionage trials are held largely in closed session.
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The full Fifth Circuit has ruled that the Constitution guarantees no right to clean drinking water, or to truthful information from officials in a health crisis, dismissing a suit by Jackson, Mississippi residents over lead contamination.
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An operation across 134 countries produced a record 4,640 seizures, including nearly 30,000 live animals. A record seizure figure can mean enforcement improved or that the trade grew — and the animals that die in transit are never counted at all.
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Marshals in Ohio say they have recovered nearly eighty missing children in the state’s largest such operation. Most missing children are not abducted by strangers — and understanding what the category actually contains explains both why the work matters and where it usually falls short.
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The World Court has heard arguments on whether an 1899 arbitration validly set the border between Guyana and Venezuela. Two-thirds of Guyana’s territory turns on the answer. Hearings ended in May and judgment is pending, with almost no coverage in between.