Mauritius Supreme Court upholds LGBTQ rights, dignity, and sodomy laws unconstitutional
By Staff Writer In two landmark judgments, delivered on Wednesday (12), the Supreme Court of Mauritius has struck down the provision in the 1838 Criminal Code that criminalized consensual anal sex between men, rejecting the law as a discriminatory colonial relic. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), one case was brought by
Popular cartoonist Awantha Artigala and journalist activist Shantha Wijesooriya petition against the Online Safety Bill
By Staff Writer Renowned Cartoonist Awantha Artigala and senior journalist Shantha Wijesooriya today (12) filed a case (SD No. 91/2023) in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka challenging the "Online Safety Bill", one of the draconian law proposals of the President Ranil Wickremasinghe's government. Since October 03, when the Bill was placed
Mass protests erupt against Netanyahu’s Judicial Reform Bill
Staff Reporter Mass protests have erupted across Israel after its parliament approved the first reading of a controversial judicial legal reform bill early on Tuesday (11) morning.Police used water cannons against protestors and have arrested at least 80 people. The Israel judicial reform bill and the protests surrounding it have been a
A Rogue Judiciary: America has a Supreme Court Problem
By Molly Jong-Fast A decade ago, the idea that a radical Supreme Court would remake our country might have seemed hyperbolic. But that’s exactly what happened. In just the past two terms, the Trumpified Supreme Court ended women’s constitutional right to an abortion, limited the state of New York’s ability to
Brazil’s Electoral Court bars fascistic former president Bolsonaro from running for office
By Miguel Andrde On June 30, Brazil’s Electoral Court (TSE) concluded its vote on the first of 16 indictments of fascistic former president Jair Bolsonaro, declaring him ineligible to run for office for eight years. The trial focused on a meeting called by Bolsonaro on July 18, 2022, with foreign ambassadors
The US Supreme Court’s rampage against democratic rights
By Patrick Martin Since the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision 13 months ago, which overturned Roe v. Wade and deprived women of the constitutional right to access abortion, the ultra-right majority on the court has engaged in a rampage against basic democratic rights and the social rights of the working class. Members of the Supreme Court
Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s partial student loan forgiveness plan, 43 million borrowers denied debt relief
By Barry Grey The US Supreme Court on Friday with a stroke of the pen blocked a measure that would have provided limited relief for 43 million Americans suffering under a crushing debt burden of $1.7 trillion in outstanding federal student loans. On the same day that the Supreme Court struck down
US Supreme Court majority abolishes racial preferences in university admission
By John Burton, Tom Carter On Thursday, the corrupt far-right majority on the US Supreme Court issued a decision effectively abolishing racial preferences in university admissions. By a 6-3 vote, the court held that racial preferences in the admissions process at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, also known as
One year since the US Supreme Court’s abolition of the constitutional right to abortion
By Barry Grey Today, June 24, 2023, marks the one-year anniversary of the US Supreme Court ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion established five decades earlier in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. Writing on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling by five unelected far-right justices, the World Socialist Web Site stressed at the
The destruction of an independent judiciary in Ukraine
By Maxim Goldarb This essay was submitted to the WSWS by Maxim Goldarb, the chairman of the Union of Left Forces (For a New Socialism) party, which has been banned by the Zelensky government because it opposes the US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. An independent judiciary is one of the