On September 25 the convictions of eight lawyers from Gilan province in a joint case before the Revolutionary Court in Rasht were reported, on charges of “propaganda against the system” and insulting Iran’s current and former supreme leaders. This report places the verdicts within a wider pattern: defendants in certain security cases may choose only …
Acting Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter filed notice on September 11 that the Justice Department will appeal to the Eleventh Circuit from Judge Kathleen Williams’s July order dismissing the President’s and his two eldest sons’ ten-billion-dollar suit against the IRS and Treasury. Williams found the case non-adversarial, collusive and jurisdictionally improper because the plaintiff …
Azul A. Aguiar Aguilar. “Backlash Against the Courts: The Path Toward Authoritarianism in Mexico.” Law & Policy 48, no. 3 (2026): e70014. https://doi.org/10.1111/lapo.70014 This article examines how leaders with autocratic tendencies capture the judiciary in order to concentrate power legally, using Mexico under Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018–2024) as its central case. Aguiar Aguilar argues …
Seven international and regional legal bodies set out a documented sequence surrounding Zambia’s August 13 general election. On August 24, the penultimate day of the constitutional deadline for filing a presidential election petition, the Constitutional Court, High Court, Supreme Court and other courts across the country were closed and cordoned off by police and military …
Judge Patrick J. Schiltz and six other members of Minnesota’s federal bench gave on-the-record interviews about the winter 2026 immigration crackdown known as Operation Metro Surge. Schiltz, a former Scalia clerk who was chief judge during the operation, said the federal government’s conduct created a grave threat to the rule of law. His district received …
Between September 12 and 14, coordinated police raids across five Turkish cities targeted organisations defending LGBT rights, part of an operation the justice minister said involved 162 people under investigation; Human Rights Watch reported that at least 112 people were arrested and that a court in Mersin detained six activists including a lawyer. When lawyers …
At a September 16 hearing on six district-court nominations, Senator Dick Durbin argued that the Justice Department has lost the presumption of regularity. That presumption is a longstanding judicial doctrine under which courts ordinarily presume that public officers have properly discharged their official duties absent sufficient evidence to the contrary; Durbin used it here to …
The Associated Press sets out how the collapse of Banco Master, a mid-sized bank shut down last November after a fraud investigation, has reached the Brazilian Supreme Court three weeks before a presidential election. According to documents in the investigation, Justice Alexandre de Moraes provided legal advice to the bank’s former head Daniel Vorcaro, who has …
A review of cases documented between September 2025 and September 2026 finds at least 135 attorneys across Iran subjected to judicial and security measures, including summonses, arrests, prison sentences, bans from practising law and travel restrictions. The compiler, HRANA, verified the identities of 60 lawyers across fourteen provinces and documented at least 75 further cases in …
Attorney General Todd Blanche spoke on September 16 at an event for Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley in North Carolina, a week after addressing the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, and held a White House press briefing on September 15. At the Whatley event he called the President the greatest of his generation and ranged …