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Immigrant rights groups refile class action to block Trump birthright executive order
Two national immigrants’ rights organizations filed a federal class-action lawsuit on Friday seeking to block US President Donald J. Trump’s controversial executive order ending birthright ...
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US Supreme Court upholds multibillion dollar federal program supporting telecommunications in rural areas
In a 6-3 ruling released Friday, the US Supreme Court found that a universal-service contribution scheme does not violate the nondelegation doctrine, which restricts Congress' ability to delegate ...
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US Supreme Court upholds Texas pornography age-verification law
The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law that mandates that adult consumers of pornographic material verify their ages before accessing the material. Applying intermediate scrutiny, the ...
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US Supreme Court rules in favor of Maryland parents challenging LGBTQ+ curriculum
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted a preliminary injunction to a group of Maryland parents challenging their school board's mandatory instruction of LGBTQ+ themed storybooks in elementary ...
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G7 dispatch (1): reaching the Summit
Darina Boykova is a 2L at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. Last week she attended the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, ...
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US Supreme Court restricts judges’ use of injunctive relief in birthright citizenship ruling
The US Supreme Court granted the government's stay application in the birthright citizenship case on Friday, limiting the ...
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Foreign aid cutbacks worsen education crisis in Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camps
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Thursday on the deteriorating impact of humanitarian funds cutbacks on the education crisis ...
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Netherlands dispatch: Spain rejects NATO’s 5% defense spending guideline, reaffirming legal sovereignty and exposing cracks in alliance cohesion
On Wednesday, at the NATO summit in The Hague, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez formally rejected the alliance’s newly agreed aspirational guideline for member states to increase defense ...
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Amnesty International: widespread human trafficking and forced labor in Cambodian ‘scam compounds’
A new report published by Amnesty International on Thursday revealed that crime groups in Cambodian labor camps regularly subject individuals to human trafficking, slavery and forced labor, ...
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Kenya dispatch: one year after the 2024 Finance Bill Protest, police brutally suppress new street demonstrations
One year down the line, and the streets of Nairobi are still marred with the blood of youth protesters and activists. As ...
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Pope Leo XIV condemns overpowering of international law
Pope Leo XIV denounced what he called the recent violations of international and humanitarian law occurring in Gaza and Ukraine, in a statement made in front of the Reunion of Aid Agencies for the ...
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JURISTnews - law students reporting the rule of law in crisis
The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law that mandates that adult consumers of pornographic material verify their ages before accessing the material. Applying intermediate scrutiny, the court ...