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Trudy Rubin: Elected leaders in Israel, Poland, and Hungary are following the 'autocrat's playbook'

A couple of weeks ago, as I moderated a discussion at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House on the heated battle to control Israel's courts, the talk turned to "the elected autocrat's playbook."

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Commentary: Even as mass shootings multiply, federal judges are erasing gun safety laws

Once again a mass shooting is in the headlines — this time in Nashville, with three children among the six victims. This latest horrific tragedy is prompting renewed calls for gun reform, but what most Americans don’t know is that a different kind of gun revolution is already underway.

Los Angeles Times

Ethan McPherson sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for killing David Murphy in Springfield Lakes in 2019

Ethan McPherson is sentenced in the Supreme Court in Brisbane after pleading guilty to a downgraded charge of unlawful striking causing the death of David Murphy.

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Former FTC chair urges agency not to tarnish a bipartisan legacy from Reagan to Obama: ‘We can’t ignore the last 40 years of antitrust based on protecting consumers’

Fromer FTC chair and law professor Timothy J. Muris critiques the FTC's new enforcement approach for breaking with precedent.

Fortune

Oscar Pistorius' lawyer: 'Mistake' to deny parole, appealing

Oscar Pistorius' lawyer says there was an “obvious mistake” in the process to deny him parole last week

The Independent UK

Supreme Court rejects appeal from Louisiana man on death row

The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from a Louisiana death row inmate seeking a new sentencing hearing

The Independent UK

'Chuvit Garden' plans face scrutiny

Many Bangkokians not living in the Sukhumvit area may not realise that there used to be a small park, named Chuvit Garden, at the entrance of Soi Sukhumvit 10.

Bangkok Post

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Israelis continue protests over judicial overhaul plans

Demonstrators take to the streets days after Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to freeze the controversial proposal.

Al Jazeera

Benjamin Netanyahu has been a political magician for years. Has Israel's leader finally run out of tricks?

Benjamin Netanyahu planned to remake Israel's justice system to give the government greater powers to appoint judges to the Supreme Court. But the public response plunged Israel into its worst upheaval in decades.

ABC News

Navjot Singh Sidhu walks out of Patiala jail to grand 'dhol' welcome

Cricket-turned-politician and Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu was released from Patiala jail today. Read further on Dynamite News:

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The other Perth Mint scandal: The Mickelberg brothers and the great gold swindle

Revelations aired by the ABC’s Four Corners about the Perth Mint have been startling to many, but it's not the first time the institution has been embroiled in a scandal.

ABC News

Expert: Indictment won't help Trump

The spectacle of a criminal trial in state or federal court would have a dramatic effect on a presidential campaign

Salon

Federal Court Strikes Down Obamacare Preventive Care Insurance Mandates

The ruling is based on separation of powers and Religious Freedom Restoration Act grounds.

Reason

Pakistani parliament approves new law to curtail chief justice's powers

Pakistan's parliament has passed a new law to curtail the powers of the Supreme Court's chief justice, Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said on Friday, a move that comes amid a row between the higher judiciary and the government.

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The Conversation

Trump indictment won't keep him from presidential race, but will make his reelection bid much harder

A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict former President Donald Trump. The specific state charges, reports The New York Times, “remain a mystery” but will be related to the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation of Trump for making hush money payments to a porn star just before the 2016 presidential…

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'Shaman' accused of drugging and raping women on the Gold Coast used accomplice to 'silence' victims, police allege

Court documents obtained by the ABC show detectives allege a man was recruited to "silence" the alleged victims of a 50-year-old "shaman".

Salon

How abortion bans impact pregnant people

Leading legal scholar Mary Ziegler and Tennessee OB-GYN Dr. Nikki Zite talk to ProPublica about ominous trends

Al Jazeera

Pakistani court strikes down sedition law in win for free speech

Ruling says the colonial-era law, which governments have used against their political opponents, is ‘unconstitutional’.

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Daily Mirror

Why there are protests in Israel as country 'on fire' during catastrophic demonstrations

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wants to give his government almost total power over who is appointed to the courts and hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been taking to the streets to protest changes

The Independent UK

Kenya opposition in fresh protests amid government warning

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has led thousands of protesters in a third round of anti-government demonstrations as the interior ministry in charge of police has warned that no more violent protests will be tolerated

The Times of India

Murder of 12-year-old: SC notice to Delhi govt on father's plea seeking CBI probe

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has sought a response from the Delhi government on a plea seeking a CBI investigation into a kidnapping and murder of a 12-year-old boy in 2014.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trudy Rubin: Israeli democracy is still under threat, even if Netanyahu has hit the 'pause' button

The urgent threat to Israeli democracy that brought that entire country to a halt on Sunday is far from over.

Tribune News Service

Jan. 6 committee shows Congress can’t enforce subpoenas alone

WASHINGTON — The House Jan. 6 select committee spent nearly a year trying to get former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify, winning a protracted court fight to defend its subpoenas and voting to refer Meadows for prosecution of contempt of Congress.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel’s Palestinians Mostly Sit Out Democracy Protests

Amal Oraby is usually a fixture at street protests.

Dynamite News

No different rule for MP, MLA, common people on suspension of conviction: SC

The Supreme Court on Wednesday remarked that there cannot be a separate rule for a lawmaker and common people on the issue related to the suspension of conviction and sentence in a criminal case while hearing a matter pertaining to Lakshadweep MP Mohammed Faizal plea. Read further on Dynamite News:

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