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DECEMBER 26, 2020

Groups including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have issued calls for an investigation into the death Sunday of a prominent Pakistani activist who had sought asylum in Canada. Karima Baloch was a 37-year-old human rights activist from the Balochistan region of Pakistan. She had applied for asylum in Canada in 2015 following persecution in her native country, and she continued to be an outspoken activist for human rights in Balochistan while living in Toronto.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

Federal Rule of Evidence 106 states that If a party introduces all or part of a writing or recorded statement, an adverse party may require the introduction, at that time, of any other part — or any other writing or.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

Can Dündar, the former editor-in-chief of Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, was convicted Wednesday on charges of terrorism in Turkey and sentenced in absentia. The Istanbul court convicted Dündar of aiding an armed terrorist organization and espionage. It sentenced him in absentia to 27 years and six months in prison. Dündar was first sentenced to five years in 2016 on espionage charges and attempting to topple the government for publishing footage that allegedly showed Turkey’s state intelligence

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

“Are tattoos free speech that should override coronavirus restrictions? California artists say yes.” Lila Seidman has this article in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 26, 2020

The Turkish Parliament began Friday debate on a controversial new law that would grant the government more power to regulate non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The title of the proposed law is “Preventing the Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction,” and it purports to help the government crack down on the financing of terrorist organizations as well as on money laundering in general.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 26, 2020

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Ripple Labs Inc. , a leading cryptocurrency and blockchain firm, and two of its executives. The SEC alleges that Ripple raised over $1.38 billion through an unregistered offering of a digital asset security called “XRP.”. The SEC filed the complaint before a federal district court in Manhattan.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

“The Ohio Supreme Court decided dozens of cases in 2020 — on topics ranging from Amazon to Kanye West”: Laura Hancock of The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this report.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 26, 2020

President of Burundi Evariste Ndayishimiye pardoned Thursday four journalists who were imprisoned for “attempting to undermine state security.”. The Head of the Information and Communications Division for the Office of the President, Willy Nyamitwe, tweeted Thursday that Ndayishimiye “has favorably responded” to a letter from journalists Agnès Ndirubusa, Christine Kamikazi, Egide Harerimana, and Térence Mpozenzi requesting a presidential pardon.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

“Judicial Notice: December 25, 2020; Notable legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Kosovo is preparing for early elections after the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional the election of Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti. The court annulled the parliamentary vote that confirmed Hoti’s coalition cabinet because one of the participating MPs had been convicted for fraud and embezzlement. Hoti was installed as prime minister in June after his party, supported by two other smaller ethnic minority parties, got the majority in Parliament by a margin of 61-24.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

“Coronavirus stalls long-awaited day in court for historic opioid lawsuit”: Meryl Kornfield of The Washington Post has this report.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

The Brexit deal (officially the [ draft] EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement ) was agreed upon, finally, on December 24. Relief in many quarters (except Universities participating in the Erasmus program, which is discontinued in the UK). But private international lawyers worry what happened to judicial cooperation in civil matters: is there any agreement at all?

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JURIST

DECEMBER 26, 2020

A coalition of human rights groups joined Wednesday WhatsApp’s lawsuit against Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group and accused the company of selling Pegasus surveillance software to government agencies to target human rights activists under the guise of terrorism laws. The groups filed an amicus brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, alleging that NSO Group’s use of surveillance software violates free speech and privacy rights under international law.

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

DECEMBER 26, 2020

The military trial judge erred in concluding that the search authorization required AFOSI complete information to determine probable cause for defendant’s DNA in a sex assault case. It’s not. Just because there were differing versions of how dressed the victim was when she woke up doesn’t make the authorization without probable cause. After the first DNA search was [erroneously] suppressed, the independent source doctrine permitted a second search authorization with more information backing it u

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

“Flight of the Barr Bros: They’re young, white, male, and ready to cash in on their work for Trump’s Justice Department.” Ankush Khardori has this post at “The Soapbox” blog of The New Republic.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

Stuart Ford’s article, Has President Trump Committed a War Crime by Pardoning War Criminals ? 35 AM. U. INT’L. L. REV. 757 (2020) seeks to answer that from an international law perspective through the lens of command responsibility. Command responsibility generally has two sides–the duty to prevent and the duty to punish. One interesting question is whether clemency after trial would be a war crime under the author’s theory.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

“Donald Trump’s pardons must not obstruct justice; Abuses of constitutional clemency power should be investigated and prosecuted”: Law professor Laurence Tribe has this essay online at Financial Times.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

Below is my column in the Hill on grounds for and against the appointment of a Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation. By refusing address the underlying allegations, Joe Biden is magnifying the concerns over possible conflicts of interest and his own possible exposure. Biden is maintaining that he will not ask potential Justice Department nominees about the investigation but he is also refusing to answer specific questions.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

“Trump’s court appointments will leave decades-long imprint”: Mark Sherman, Kevin Freking, and Matthew Daly of The Associated Press have this report.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

“Trump rails at Justice Dept., Supreme Court as stimulus bill deadline nears; The president took aim at the FBI and DOJ for not pursuing baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election”: Evan Semones of Politico has this report.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

“Amy Coney Barrett steers the Supreme Court to the right, but not toward President Trump”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

“Trump tweet rant rips Congress, Senate Republicas, Supreme Court, Justice Department”: S.A. Miller of The Washington Times has this report.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

“The Trump Paradox”: Law professor Eric Posner has this essay online at Project Syndicate.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

“Trump’s Fraud Claims Died in Court, But the Myth of Stolen Elections Lives On; For years, Republicans have used the specter of cheating as a reason to impose barriers to ballot access; A definitive debunking of claims of wrongdoing in 2020 has not changed that message”: Jim Rutenberg, Nick Corasaniti, and Alan Feuer will have this front page article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

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