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5 天之前 · November 20, 2024 04:11:35 pm. The Los Angeles City Council voted to pass an ordinance Tuesday that bans the city’s resources from being used for federal immigration enforcement or by federal immigration agents. Council members unanimously voted to pass the ordinance. LA Mayor Karen Bass and City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto drafted the ...
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The rule of law ensures that laws are applied consistently and predictably, protecting individual rights and freedoms, fostering public trust, and preventing arbitrary exercise of power. Historically, the rule of law has been associated with various political systems, ranging from autocracies to …
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5 天之前 · November 4, 2024 12:41:38 pm. In the wake of a bitterly divisive election campaign, American citizens officially go to the polls on Tuesday, November 5. This is the seventh US election that JURIST has covered since 2000, when for 36 days this university-based legal news non-profit, then not even five years old, chronicled the highs and lows of ...
Amid Political Turbulence, US Lawyers Need to Bolster Respect for …
2 天之前 · The author, a former federal and international prosecutor, argues that as America navigates political uncertainty, lawyers must serve as vigilant guardians of democracy by upholding constitutional principles, challenging injustice, and ensuring the rule of law transcends partisan divisions...
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4 天之前 · November 21, 2024 03:11:41 pm. The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, restricted the use of gendered bathrooms in the House to biological members of each sex on Wednesday. The measure has triggered anger among legislators and advocates and has once again brought the issues of transgender rights and their inclusion in ...
Editorial: America’s Rule of Law in Crisis — A Warning and an …
2024年11月4日 · In the wake of a bitterly divisive election campaign, American citizens officially go to the polls on Tuesday, November 5. This is the seventh US election that JURIST has covered since 2000, when for 36 days this university-based legal news non-profit, then not even five years old, chronicled the highs and lows of the recount that only ended when the US Supreme Court effectively stopped the ...
Electoral Concession Serves as Democracy’s Critical Safeguard
2024年11月1日 · Voter anomalies are part of the election process, and rarely are elections problem-free. Retail anomalies are voting irregularities committed by individuals, such as duplicate voting, impersonation, voting in the name of …
The Erosion of Respect for the Rule of Law in America
2024年10月29日 · The rule of law has long been considered a cornerstone of American democracy, safeguarding individual rights, ensuring justice, and regulating the conduct of public officials within a framework of established laws. However, a troubling trend has emerged in recent years — a significant erosion of ...
The Legal Framework of Extradition and the Case of Julian Assange
2024年2月22日 · Julian Assange is among the most polarizing public figures of the 21st century thus far. In the nearly two decades since he established WikiLeaks, a website that gained infamy in the aughts for its release of millions of classified documents and related analyses, Assange has galvanized free speech advocates, incensed national security stalwarts, and fostered debate over the relative limits of ...