Trump officials now face a temporary restraining order for violating the First Amendment by sanctioning US groups. he U.S. government has long sought to incapacitate the International Criminal Court (ICC), the world’s first global court that was created to prosecute the most atrocious crimes. As the ICC seeks to provide accountability for Israeli crimes, the… Read more »
Speaker Mike Johnson could block the seating of victorious Democrats in the House of Representatives on January 3. After the 2020 presidential election that resulted in a clear victory for Joe Biden, Donald Trump tried mightily to overturn the outcome. He has persistently insisted to this day that he won and Biden lost. On January… Read more »
Supporters of Trump-sanctioned individuals or entities face maximums of $1 million in fines and 20 years imprisonment. The United States has long endeavored to undermine the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Donald Trump has taken the assault to a new level with punishing sanctions against those who seek to hold accountable individuals who commit the… Read more »
Alarmingly, only five members of the nine-person U.S. Supreme Court found the U.S. president’s executive order revoking birthright citizenship unconstitutional. This is a slender thread. In a case the U.S. Supreme Court never should have agreed to hear, its members narrowly rejected Donald Trump’s attempt to eviscerate the Citizenship Clause of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment,… Read more »
Meanwhile, a federal judge in Massachusetts struck down Trump’s executive order that would erect obstacles to voting. With the 2026 midterm elections just four months away, the Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted if they are postmarked by election day and received within five days thereafter. The court’s… Read more »
Since the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the U.S. government has sought to foment regime change in Cuba. In 1961, the C.I.A. orchestrated the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, when C.I.A.-trained Cuban exiles landed at Playa Girón, on Cuba’s southern coast. They were defeated within two days by Cuban military forces. Over the years, the C.I.A. organized… Read more »
Israel is also perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity in Lebanon. While the world’s attention is focused on the U.S.-Israeli aggression in Iran and Donald Trump’s genocidal proclamations, Israel is perpetrating genocide in Lebanon. Trump threatened genocide in Iran on April 7, stating, “A whole civilization will die tonight.” The next day, he agreed to a… Read more »
The prohibition of racial discrimination in voting and the right to have absentee ballots counted are in grave peril. The Supreme Court appears poised to deal a severe blow to the fundamental right to vote in two cases this term. Louisiana v. Callais threatens the right to vote free from racial discrimination and Watson v. Republican National Committee will… Read more »
While affirming that the right to present a defense is “paramount,” the judge refused to dismiss the case — for now. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein refused to dismiss drug trafficking charges against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores on March 26, even though the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control… Read more »
A “Uniting for Peace” resolution in the UN General Assembly can counter the Security Council’s failure to act. Already 555 Iranians — including 180 students at a girls’ elementary school in Minab — have been reported dead in the war of aggression launched February 28 by President Donald Trump and his accomplice, accused war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin… Read more »