Amid worsening famine conditions in Gaza, the UK on Tuesday threatened to recognize Palestinian statehood at the United Nations in September unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire and to take immediate steps to allow unhindered aid shipments into the territory. The ultimatum is diplomatically significant as the international community grapples with how to approach the [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday granted President Donald Trump’s request to stay a lower court order that would have prevented him from firing three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission without cause. The order allows Trump to immediately terminate commissioners Mary Boyle, Alexander Hoehn-Saric, and Richard Trumka Jr., whom he removed in [...]

Amid soaring child deaths, rising malnutrition, ceaseless bombardments, and a shattered health system, conditions in Gaza have deteriorated to “unspeakable” levels, top UN officials warned the Security Council on Wednesday. Gaza has remained under near constant bombardment by Israeli forces since October 2023, when a terrorist attack coordinated by Hamas killed some 1,200 people in [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to proceed with mass layoffs at the Education Department while legal challenges continue. The court granted the administration’s request to lift a lower court injunction that had blocked the firing of more than 2,000 department employees—roughly half the agency’s workforce. Education Secretary Linda McMahon [...]

Noor Ul Huda is a JURIST staff correspondent in Pakistan and a recent graduate of Punjab University Law College. She files this dispatch from Lahore.  Pakistan has long been a nation where the winds of change blow frequently, especially when it comes to its judiciary. Ever since the 26th Constitutional Amendment, there hasn’t been a [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to allow Florida to enforce a state law criminalizing entry into the state by undocumented immigrants, leaving in place a federal judge’s preliminary injunction that blocked the measure while legal challenges proceed. The law, SB 4-C, which was enacted in February, creates state crimes for undocumented immigrants who enter [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. On Monday, the Supreme Court of India (SCI) agreed to hear a batch of petitions challenging the Election Commission’s (ECI) decision to verify and revise the State of Bihar’s electoral rolls as it awaits assembly elections later this year. This [...]

A federal judge in Rhode Island issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday blocking the Trump Administration’s plans to undertake a sweeping reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that would have terminated approximately 10,000 employees and drastically restructured critical public health programs. On March 27, HHS announced plans to “streamline the functions” of [...]

The author of this dispatch is a law graduate and JURIST correspondent in Tehran who must remain anonymous. They are warning us to leave Tehran since they are going to attack the city. Tehran is our homeland and many of us have nowhere else to go. The exit routes of the city are heavily jammed [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday called on Jordanian authorities to reverse a sweeping ban on 12 online news outlets accused of “spreading media poison and attacking Jordan” after they reported that the government profited from humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza. CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa program director Sara Qudah stated: “These [...]