In January 2025, a group of researchers who would later become part of LADD gathered at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington for Lawyers as Agents for Change in Countries Facing Distress, a two-day symposium co-sponsored by LADD and hosted by the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. The event was organized …
The Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) announced on August 21 that it will file criminal complaints against prison administrators and guards after its members documented evidence of physical abuse during visits to detainees in Antalya. The association says prisoners were beaten on August 13 after objecting to a routine count order, dragged along the ground, and …
Justice Department lawyers filed notice on a Friday evening, “after the courts were closed,” that the U.S. Postal Service had transmitted a final rule to the Federal Register for August 26 publication with a retroactive effective date of August 21 — despite standing injunctions from U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani barring implementation of Section 3 …
A divided Second Circuit panel held on August 21 that John Sarcone III was not lawfully serving as acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, invalidating subpoenas he issued to New York Attorney General Letitia James. Judge Guido Calabresi wrote that delegating the office’s full duties …
In this PBS NewsHour segment, justice correspondent Ali Rogin interviews two federal judges about the surge in threats against the judiciary. The U.S. Marshals Service reports that security incidents of significant concern jumped nearly 60 percent in fiscal year 2025 and are on pace to climb further. Chief Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island describes …
Turkish police detained lawyer Alişan İnci on August 21, the second defense lawyer for government critic and Islamic preacher Alparslan Kuytul taken into custody within three days. Bilal İpek, another of Kuytul’s lawyers, was detained on August 19 and had his phone seized, reportedly after commenting on a social media post by a presidential aide …
Democracy Docket reported on August 21 that David Michael Levin — a Florida attorney who pleaded guilty after using SQL-injection attacks to breach the Lee County Supervisor of Elections and Florida Division of Elections websites in 2016 — appears to have joined the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Levin was photographed at Assistant Attorney General …
On August 20, 128 retired federal and state judges, joined by the Democracy Defenders Fund and Lawyers Defending American Democracy, filed a Florida Bar complaint against Department of Homeland Security General Counsel James Percival, alleging that his social media posts “threaten the rule of law and increase the risk of violence against judges.” On July …
On August 18 the U.S. Secretary of State sanctioned International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane, a Japanese judge, and Abdoulaye Seye, a Senegalese senior trial lawyer in the Office of the Prosecutor who has been investigating conduct in the West Bank and is nominated for election as an ICC judge. The Court condemned the designations …
In an August 18 filing in the Eastern District of North Carolina opposing James Comey’s vindictive-prosecution motion, federal prosecutors argued that presidential direction of subordinates exercising executive functions is “a feature, not a bug” of the constitutional system, and characterized the tradition of Justice Department independence from the White House as a historical “myth.” The …