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Late last week, news broke that a group of former associates who resigned over their Biglaw firms’ deals to ingratiate Donald Trump with millions of dollars’ worth of pro bono payola had launched a new campaign targeting partners on their former firms’ management committees. Do partners who have signed on to piss-poor deals with the Trump administration deserve to be on corporate, industry, and nonprofit boards? This group says no, and they’re inviting the public to weigh in as well through a persuasive email-writing campaign. The group — led by Rachel Cohen, the former Skadden associate who publicly condemned Trump’s…

A sign is displayed outside the Internal Revenue Service building on May 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) Patrick Semansky/AP/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP/AP A nonprofit watchdog group sued the Trump administration on Monday for “unlawfully withholding records” regarding President Trump’s actions against Harvard University, including efforts to revoke the institution’s tax-exempt status. American Oversight — which recently sued the White House over its use of the messaging app signal Signal and often works to release government information under the Freedom of Information Act — filed the suit in D.C. District Court. “Our lawsuit seeks to…

The trial has added to rising concerns across East Africa about threats to democracy.The leader of Tanzania’s main opposition party has appeared in court at a hearing in an ongoing trial on charges of treason, in which he potentially faces the death penalty. Tundu Lissu issued a message of defiance to supporters on Monday as he took his place in the dock at Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court in the capital, Dar-es-Salaam. The trial has added to rising concerns across East Africa about threats to democracy. Lissu entered the courtroom with his fist raised in the air as supporters chanted, “No…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation.The court’s order, with only one noted dissent, puts on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month. The justices provided no rationale, which is common in emergency appeals. The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil…

LONDON (AP) — A third man was arrested Monday for a series of fires that targeted property linked to U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, police said.The unnamed 34-year-old was arrested in Chelsea, west London, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life, Metropolitan Police said.A 26-year-old man was arrested on the same charge Saturday, the day after Roman Lavrynovych, a Ukrainian national, appeared in court on charges of setting fire to Starmer’s personal home, along with a property where he once lived and a small SUV he had sold. Police didn’t provide the nationality of the…

LONDON (AP) — A man who tried to help a burglar cash in from the theft of a golden toilet valued at 4.74 million pounds ($6.4 million) was spared jail on Monday after a British judge said he had been taken advantage of by the thieves.Frederick Doe, 37, also known as Frederick Sines, was given a suspended sentence at Oxford Crown Court for his role in helping to sell the 18-carat gold fully functioning toilet which was taken in 2019 from Blenheim Palace — the country mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born.“Those responsible for this audacious heist,…

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzania’s most prominent opposition leader appeared in court Monday to face treason charges after calling for electoral reforms ahead of October’s general election.A conviction for treason carries a death penalty. But a high-spirited Tundu Lissu wore a T-shirt reading “no reforms, no election” — echoing the call that led to his April 9 arrest after addressing a public rally.Lissu had embarked on a hunger strike to protest making a virtual court appearance instead of being allowed to show up in person.The politician, chair of the opposition Chadema party, survived an assassination attempt in 2017…

Indigenous leaders from across Latin America will meet this week for talks on how to enforce legal rulings designed to enforce their rights to justice and territorial protection.The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, a regional tribunal that holds governments accountable for upholding human rights, has made decisions backing Indigenous peoples’ rights — including to their ancestral lands, which they consider essential to preserve their culture and way of life — which are not being implemented by Latin America governments.There is growing concern that without stronger legal protections, government enforcement and adequate resources, the Costa Rica-based court’s rulings will remain largely…

Harmeet Dhillon, now the assistant attorney general in charge of the civil rights division, prepares for her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is in upheaval amid a mass exodus of attorneys as the Trump administration moves to radically reshape the division, shelving its traditional mission and replacing it with one focused on enforcing the president’s executive orders. Some 250 attorneys — or around 70% of the division’s lawyers — have left or will have left the department in the…

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania is asking the International Court of Justice to rule that Belarus breached its international obligations by allegedly organizing the smuggling of migrants to its territory and award it compensation.The Foreign Ministry in Vilnius said Lithuania filed its case to the court in The Hague on Monday. It revolves around alleged breaches by Belarus of its obligations under the United Nations’ Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air.The number of migrants arriving at the borders of European Union member countries from Belarus increased sharply last year, and European authorities have accused Belarus…