The US Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision Friday on the legality of President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). In a 6-3 decision, the Court held that the IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose tariffs. The IEEPA was enacted in 1977 to address significant The post US Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs as unlawful appeared first on JURIST – News.

Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday after the Seoul Central District Court found him guilty of leading an insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law on December 3, 2024. The court held that Yoon’s decision to declare martial law and deploy military and police forces against The post Former South Korea president sentenced to life in prison appeared first on JURIST – News.

Four plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to block President Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot “Independence Arch” at Memorial Circle near Arlington National Cemetery. The plaintiffs, Vietnam War veterans Michael Lemmon, Shaun Byrnes, and Jon Gundersen, and retired architectural historian Calder Loth, are represented by the The post Trump’s planned ‘Independence Arch’ facing lawsuit from US veterans, historian appeared first on JURIST – News.

On February 12, the High Court of Kenya struck down Section 95(1)(b) of the Penal Code as unconstitutional. The Section made it a crime to “create a disturbance in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace,” meaning a person could be arrested for causing public commotion, shouting loudly, or behaving in a way police believed The post Kenya dispatch: a win for freedom of expression as High Court quashes controversial disturbance charge appeared first on JURIST – News.