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The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to fully implement an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that seeks to impose additional restrictions on mail-in voting. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer called an order by a federal judge in Massachusetts that paused portions of the order in 23…

Some Supreme Court arguments seem relatively easy to read. After the court reheard Louisiana v. Callais, SCOTUSblog reported that the court appeared “ready to curtail [a] major provision of the Voting Rights Act.” Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch had questioned the constitutionality of race-conscious redistricting, while Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested that such remedies might require…

Articles 76 and 143 of theFourth Geneva Conventionrequire that representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) be granted access to places of detention, with “full liberty” to choose the facilities they wish to visit. Article 143 further provides that delegates must be allowed to interview detainees privately, without representatives of the detaining…