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The Pennsylvania Supreme Courtruled Monday that mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect dates will not be counted in the 2024 general election. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that mail-in ballots must contain a date, emphasizing the need to follow instructions in the interest of ensuring fairness in the electoral process.
The Irish High Courtruled Friday that a decision made by the country’s Minister for Justice in 2020 to declare the UK a “safe country” to send asylum seekers back to during processing was “unlawful as a matter of EU law.” The UK has yet to respond to the ruling.
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.” The complaint goes on to argue that “it is possible to draw 16 reasonably compact majority-Black districts,” which would better reflect the number of Black Arkansans in the state population, according to data from the 2020 US Census.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that the Turkish authorities’ refusal to grant detained human rights lawyer, Ramazan Demir, access to certain Internet sites was unjustified under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. in front of the ECHR in 2020.
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