On October 1 Supreme Court President Isaac Amit told Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh that a majority of a nine-justice panel would uphold the Central Elections Committee’s decision to bar him from the October 27 election, and recommended that he withdraw. Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara backed the disqualification over an article he published on October …
On October 1 U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian ruled that the President had unlawfully fired Roger Rogoff, a former judge and veteran prosecutor whom the 17 active and senior judges of the Western District of Washington unanimously named U.S. attorney in July after the post went unfilled by a Senate-confirmed nominee, and reinstated him. Rogoff …
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 …
Addressing a special Israel Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv on September 2, Supreme Court President Isaac Amit argued that the road to physical violence against judges and lawyers runs first through verbal violence, and that attacks by public officials and on social media degrade the discourse that reaches courtrooms. He warned that threats may deter …
Votebeat’s August 24 report details the mechanics of the Supreme Court’s order lifting a stay on Trump’s executive order directing the U.S. Postal Service to restrict mail ballot handling for the 2026 midterms. Although a second injunction kept the order from taking immediate effect, the ruling narrowed the judicial constraints on the directive and left …
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson publicly accused the Supreme Court’s conservative majority of injecting “chaos and uncertainty” into the 2026 midterm elections after the Court, on its emergency docket, lifted one of two injunctions blocking President Trump’s executive order restricting mail voting. Jackson’s central objection was procedural as much as substantive: the Court allowed the administration …
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 …
Former Venezuelan judge María Lourdes Afiuni has been granted full freedom, closing a case that ran more than 16 years and became emblematic of the collapse of judicial independence in Venezuela. The ordeal began in December 2009, when Afiuni ordered the release on bail of banker Eligio Cedeño, who had been held in pre-trial detention …
A Minnesota man was convicted by a federal jury in St. Paul on August 7, 2026, on all three counts related to writing and distributing a lengthy manuscript threatening federal judges, Reuters reports. Robert Phillip Ivers, 73, was found guilty of mailing threatening communications and of threatening to murder a federal judge; he had already …
In an August 5 profile, The Washington Post reported on Chief U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of Rhode Island, who spoke publicly about credible death threats and harassment he and his family have received after ruling against the administration. McConnell described the doxxing of his daughter and impeachment efforts launched by members of …