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25 Mar 2022, 5:27 pm
Community Highlights and Recent News ● The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has issued its first report dedicated to the right of access to information which provides guidance to state actors on the development of appropriate and effective laws and policies. [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 9:03 pm
Under the new rule, some individuals seeking asylum in the United States—particularly, adults and families who are subject to expedited removal—will have asylum officers, rather than immigration judges, evaluate their claims. [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 6:01 am
Every generation in the United States confronts this dilemma anew. [read post]
23 Mar 2022, 3:08 pm
Profound understandings and traditions about the nature of marriage and human sexuality that grounded western civilization for centuries are today deemed offensive and hateful by many. [read post]
22 Mar 2022, 4:00 am
This determination was particularly troubling because the United States has not only ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), but the US constitutional and rule of law also evoke the fundamental principles of the ICCPR. [read post]
21 Mar 2022, 9:41 am
”Other law professors—several of whom asked me not to identify their institution, their area of expertise, or even their state of residence—were similarly terrified.Nadine Strossen, the first woman to head the American Civil Liberties Union and a professor at New York Law School, told me: “I massively self-censor. [read post]
20 Mar 2022, 9:00 pm
No one gets elected to any significant political office in the U.S. by promising to protect or expand prisoner’s rights. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 2:19 pm
Right. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 5:31 am
His justification for the courthouse standoff centered on his belief, as reflected in the “Affidavit of Criminal Complaint” he carried with him on April 20, that Tennessee officials had committed “treason” by being engaged in “constructive levy of war against the United States and Citizens of the United States” through “forcible resistance” to the U.S. [read post]
28 Feb 2022, 8:40 am
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.: The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties will hold a hearing on the discrimination and civil rights of the Muslim, Arab and South Asian American communities. [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 4:57 pm
“Today, as we watch freedom and liberty under attack abroad, I’m here to fulfill my responsibilities under the Constitution to preserve freedom and liberty here in the United States of America,” he says. [read post]
24 Feb 2022, 9:50 am
He was invited to testify because he is regarded as an expert in the area of supremacist and far-right violence in the United States. [read post]
18 Feb 2022, 2:30 pm
The core claims are brought under the federal statute banning conspiracy "to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof. [read post]
11 Feb 2022, 1:11 pm
Duties include legal representation and work for the Pueblo on the following priority areas and issues: (1) Environmental, water and land use laws, including land acquisitions, placing lands into trust, rights-of-way and easements for utility purposes; (2) Aamodt water rights adjudication, acequia water rights, and federal and state relations respecting the Pueblo water rights and uses; (3) Infrastructure development (including and advising the Pueblo on… [read post]
11 Feb 2022, 3:00 am
Moms for Liberty, a controversial Florida-based political action group started by two former school board members and a Republican activist, has made parental rights its rallying cry and is hoping to harness anger over mask mandates and diversity education in schools into power at the polls. [read post]
10 Feb 2022, 5:12 am
In 1649—with their lives and liberties under severe threat - the Levellers adopted a more pragmatic stance and opened the door for excluding Catholics refusing to reject Papal supremacy from holding public office. [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 7:30 am
In a December 2020 letter, during his presidential transition, he asked Democratic senators to recommend public defenders and civil rights lawyers, who have generally been underrepresented on the federal bench, for judgeships. [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 7:05 am
United States, 526 U.S. 314, 326 (1999). [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 6:48 am
Notable commenters in this camp include the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Google, and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). [read post]
24 Jan 2022, 6:04 pm
The term is connected to a number of other similar terms that seek to give meaning to the same set of practices or states of social being: for example, the German-English Weltanschauung) or perhaps “lifeworlds. [read post]
