Supreme Court poised to revisit and potentially overturn marriage equality
By Luis Marquez, Marc Wells. A reactionary petition by Kim Davis seeks to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, threatening to strip hundreds of thousands of couples of legal protections and accelerating the bipartisan assault on democratic rights.
Kremlin steps up internet censorship
By Evgeny Kostrov. For ordinary users, this means virtually no privacy in their online lives. Moreover, the constant updating of the list of extremist materials makes it possible to ban content that has long been publicly available and widely popular. In effect, this means virtually unlimited possibilities for restricting what
US-Israeli attack on Iran: German politics and media abandon international law
By Justus Leicht. There is hardly any war that violates international law as flagrantly as the US-Israeli attack on Iran in June of this year. On this, virtually all reputable international law experts agree. Nevertheless, the government and significant sections of Germany’s leading media have openly supported the war.
Trump administration revives medieval “kin punishment”
By Tom Mackaman. The entire American legal system is founded on the concept that the individual, not the family or a kin group, is responsible for his or her own actions.
White House adviser Stephen Miller: Trump could suspend habeas corpus unless courts “do the right thing”
By Kevin Reed. Stephen Miller’s threat to suspend habeas corpus is a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s erection of a political dictatorship.
Australian state Supreme Court dismisses legal case of public housing towers’ residents
By Margaret Rees, Patrick O’Connor. Public housing tower in Flemington, Melbourne The Victorian Supreme Court earlier this month flatly rejected a legal challenge to the state Labor government’s planned demolition of public housing towers in Melbourne, which was brought by a group of residents in three of the targeted apartment blocks. The court