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Amnesty International Australia issued a statement on Tuesday denouncing the Australian federal government’s newly proposed bill reintroducing punitive measures targeting a group of people released from immigration detention emphasizing that it undermines the recent High Courtdecision and breaches Australia’s international obligations.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday declared the Supreme Courtdecision in the matter of trying armed civilians in a military court martial as ‘wrong’, stating that the method reinforces the civilian judicial system in defending the lives of people against criminals armed with guns.
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The Oregon Supreme Courtruled Friday that all state criminal convictions which resulted from nonunanimous jury verdicts are invalid. The ruling comes after a 2020 US Supreme Courtdecision that held non-unanimous jury verdicts violate the US Constitution’s Sixth Amendment.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Aryeh Deri from his cabinet Sunday morning, complying with a recent Supreme Courtdecision demanding he do so. The post Israel dispatch: PM Netanyahu dismisses cabinet ally Aryeh Deri after mass protests and Supreme Courtruling appeared first on JURIST - News.
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.” Recent rulings in lower courts across the country have mirrored Thomas’s guidance to stay consistent with how states have historically regulated gun ownership, striking down gun restrictions involving young adults, people facing felony charges, and makers of homemade guns.
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