The report’s call on the organised bar was tested almost immediately. In a letter dated August 28 and reported on September 3, the Florida Bar declined to investigate James Percival, general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security, over posts on his official account naming four sitting federal district judges under the heading “Worst of the …
The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress adopted an amendment to the Lawyers Law on August 28, effective September 1. The revised statute makes support for the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party an explicit legal qualification for admission to practice, alongside upholding the Constitution and the socialist rule-of-law system, and adds a provision requiring …
Rafael Henrique Silva de Mello, 45, was killed on the night of August 27 after scheduling a meeting at a Campinas property with people who had presented themselves as new clients. Security cameras recorded two men arriving by motorcycle, forcing him out of the building onto the pavement, and shooting him during a struggle; his phone was taken. …
On September 2 the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute condemned the suspension in recent weeks of the licences of around 2,000 lawyers and notaries, both inside Nicaragua and in exile. Those affected received no prior notice, no opportunity to be heard, and no published legal basis; many learned of it only when they tried to file documents or appear in court, or when they noticed changes …
The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported on August 29 that Razieh Hashemi, a licensed attorney from Abdanan in Ilam province, was seized by security forces on August 27 without presentation of a warrant and taken to an undisclosed location. Three days later her family’s repeated inquiries had produced no information on her whereabouts, condition, place of detention, or …
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 …
On August 26, Rep. Jamie Raskin, ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, sent letters to the top federal prosecutors in five districts — the District of Columbia, Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and the Northern District of Illinois — opening an inquiry into what he characterized as a pattern of Justice Department attorneys misleading …
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 …