Last week, Paul and Democratic Sens. Tim Kaine (Va.), Adam Schiff (Ca.) and Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) filed a war powers resolution to prevent the administration from engaging Venezuela in conflict without congressional approval.
The Kentucky Republican reiterated he and his colleagues’ push on Wednesday, saying that “if you want war, the president should come to Congress, like the Constitution dictates, and he should ask Congress for a declaration of war.
“That’s what should be going on right now.”
The commission has long been a way to challenge human rights abuses in the Western Hemisphere, but the U.S. hasn’t ratified the enforcement treaty and does not consider its findings legally binding. Still, an adverse finding is an embarrassment to a nation that has customarily been seen as an advocate for the rule of law.
The family of a Colombian man believed to have been killed in a US strike in the Caribbean has filed what’s believed to be the first complaint against such attacks with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The petition, filed Tuesday by US human rights attorney Dan Kovalik, alleges that Colombian fisherman Alejandro Carranza was killed when the US struck his boat off the coast of Colombia on September 15.
The family of a Colombian fisherman who died in a U.S. military boat strike in September has filed a formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleging the U.S. government illegally killed him.
Alejandro Carranza was killed in a strike in the Caribbean on Sept. 15, according to the petition, filed on Tuesday.
A portion of Tuesday’s hearing was held in closed session to allow the government to present material it says cannot be disclosed on national security grounds.
During these closed proceedings, known as closed material procedures (CMP), Ammori and her legal team replaced by a special advocate appointed by Ammori.
However, the special advocate is not permitted to share the government’s submissions with Ammori or her lawyers.
It means that if Ammori loses her case based on the secret evidence, neither she nor her team will know what the government argued against her or Palestine Action.
PARKS: How big of a deal are these congressional investigations?
GARRETT: So legally, Congress does have real powerful levers and tools at their disposal. You know, they can call hearings. They can ask for documents, and even, you know, they have the subpoena power. But we‘ll have to wait and see how aggressive these inquiries are.
(November 24, 2025)
Dear Attorney General Bondi and Secretary Hegseth:
We are writing to request expeditious declassification and public release of the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel’s written opinion, dated September 5, 2025, concerning the domestic and international legal basis for recent military strikes of certain vessels near South America and the Caribbean, with appropriate redactions necessary to protect military personnel and sensitive intelligence matters.
Significant and noteworthy precedent exists for the public release of OLC opinions related to overseas military action. After the United States carried out military strikes in Libya in 2011 and in Syria in 2018, the Department of Justice released the applicable OLC opinion justifying each operation.
Few decisions are more consequential for a democracy than the use of lethal force. We therefore believe that the declassification and public release of this important document would enhance transparency in the use of deadly force by our Nation’s military and is necessary to ensure Congress and the American people are fully informed of the legal justification supporting these strikes.
Sincerely,
Richard Blumenthal
United States Senator
Jack Reed
United States Senator
Jeanne Shaheen
United States Senator
Kirsten Gillibrand
United States Senator
Mazie K. Hirono
United States Senator
Tim Kaine
United States Senator
Angus S. King, Jr.
United States Senator
Elizabeth Warren
United States Senator
Gary C. Peters
United States Senator
Tammy Duckworth
United States Senator
Jacky Rosen
United States Senator
Mark Kelly
United States Senator
Elissa Slotkin
United States Senator
In an interview with our Arabic edition Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Awad said: „We defeated him three times in court when he ignored the rights of Texas citizens in the right to boycott against Israel.
We believe this is retaliation against the institution, and US courts do not allow any official in power to take revenge on an institution or place that defeated them in the judiciary.“
Founded in 1994, CAIR is the largest civil-rights and Muslim advocacy organisation in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, DC, it operates more than 35 regional offices nationwide.
(November 18, 2025)
The Texas chapter and national headquarters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today announced that it would carry on its civil rights work in Texas and vigorously defend its right to do so in response to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s “defamatory and lawless” proclamation smearing the organization.
In its response to Abbott’s proclamation, CAIR’s legal team is preparing to take appropriate action to address it. CAIR has also sent a letter to Abbott debunking his claims and detailing the Muslim civil rights organization’s three-decade record of both defending civil rights and condemning all forms of unjust violence, including terrorism. The letter also cites numerous rulings and independent reports debunking efforts to smear CAIR or link it to any foreign entities.
In written submissions, he highlighted a September 2024 report from the National Police Coordination Centre that came after alleged terrorism incidents. The report concluded that Palestine Action was “a risk to UK businesses and legitimate enterprises nationwide” and engaged as a whole in “non-violent direct action”.
Another report from the centre in December last year said incidents in which violence had been used were “not the norm for PA (Palestine Action) action, and any harm or injuries historically are assessed to be the result of unintentional or misjudged action through trying to evade capture”.
Activists from the group painted “Gaza is not for sale” and dug up parts of the green at Mr Trump’s golf course in Scotland in March 2025, with the president writing on social media that the prime minister had assured him that “they caught the terrorists” involved.
The group was proscribed as a terror organisation in an unusual move four months later, after activists broke into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and sprayed two military planes with red paint.
Legal action by Huda Ammori, the cofounder of Palestine Action, has begun in London’s High Court against the decision by the United Kingdom government to designate the activist group as a terrorist organisation.
The interior ministry, or Home Office, proscribed the pro-Palestinian group in July, days after activists protesting against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza broke into an air force base in southern England.
(November 24, 2025)
Senate Democrats are asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi to declassify and publicly release the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel’s classified, written opinion outlining the legal basis for the Trump administration’s strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.
Thirteen Senate Democrats, all members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, are demanding an “expeditious declassification and public release” of the classified opinion, which was drafted over the summer and argued that U.S. troops who participate in boat strikes, which have taken place on both sides of South America, cannot be prosecuted.
Nov 24, 2025 | Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) joined members of the Senate Armed Services Committee in writing to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth requesting the declassification and public release of the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) written opinion on the Trump Administration’s lethal airstrikes in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean.
“Few decisions are more consequential for a democracy than the use of lethal force. We therefore believe that the declassification and public release of this important document would enhance transparency in the use of deadly force by our Nation’s military and is necessary to ensure Congress and the American people are fully informed of the legal justification supporting these strikes,” the Senators wrote.
Brussels- 4 November 2025
On 20 June 2025, the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) filed a formal complaint with the European Investment Bank’s Complaints Mechanism (EIB-CM), urging immediate action to suspend and investigate the EIB’s ongoing financial cooperation with Israeli institutions blacklisted by the United Nations for their involvement in illegal settlements. These investments, amounting to over €1 billion, include support for Bank Leumi, Electra, and other entities named in the UN’s 2020 database for facilitating and profiting from the Israeli settlement enterprise — a core component of the apartheid regime imposed on the Palestinian people.
We are now pleased to announce that this complaint has progressed to the formal assessment phase within the EIB-CM. This development is not merely procedural — it is a political and legal milestone, signaling that a European institution is being forced to reckon with its complicity in grave breaches of international law.
Bereits im Oktober 2024 hatte der Beschwerdeführer beim Verwaltungsgericht Frankfurt Eilrechtsschutz beantragt. Der Antrag sowie die anschließende Beschwerde beim Hessischen Verwaltungsgerichtshof in Kassel wurden abgewiesen. Mit der nun eingereichten Verfassungsbeschwerde wendet sich der Beschwerdeführer gegen diese Entscheidungen, die ihm einen wirksamen Rechtsschutz versagt haben.
Er beruft sich auf sein Grundrecht auf Leben und körperliche Unversehrtheit (Art. 2 Abs. 2 GG) sowie auf sein Recht auf effektiven Rechtsschutz (Art. 19 Abs. 4 GG). Er fordert eine verfassungsgerichtliche Klärung, ob die Verweigerung von Eilrechtsschutz – angesichts der erkennbaren Risiken durch deutsche Waffenlieferungen – seine Grundrechte verletzt.
Der Fall macht deutlich: Deutschland muss Menschen vor den Folgen seiner Waffenexporte schützen. Entscheidungen über Rüstungslieferungen sind nicht nur juristisch, sondern auch faktisch von unmittelbarer Bedeutung für Menschenleben – in den vergangenen zwei Jahren dieses verheerenden Krieges ebenso wie heute
As early as October 2024, the complainant had applied for interim legal protection at the Frankfurt Administrative Court. The application and the subsequent appeal to the Hessian Higher Administrative Court in Kassel were rejected. With the constitutional complaint now filed, the complainant is challenging these decisions, which denied him effective legal protection.
He invokes his fundamental right to life and physical inviolability (Article 2(2) of the Basic Law) as well as his right to effective legal protection (Article 19(4) of the Basic Law).
He is seeking a constitutional clarification as to whether the denial of interim legal protection – in light of the recognizable risks posed by German arms deliveries – violates his fundamental rights.
This case makes clear: Germany must protect people from the consequences of its arms exports. Decisions about arms deliveries are not only legally but also factually of immediate significance for human lives – during the two years of this devastating war as much as today.
After the ruling Ms Ammori said: ‚This is a landmark victory: not only against one of the most extreme attacks on civil liberties in recent British history, but for the fundamental principle that Government ministers can and must be held accountable when they act unlawfully.
‚The Government‘s effort to avoid judicial scrutiny of its blatantly anti-democratic proscription – branding a protest group as ‚terrorists‘ for the first time in British history – has backfired spectacularly, and we now head into the judicial review in November with an even stronger legal footing.
‚Arresting peaceful protesters and those disrupting the arms trade is a dangerous misuse of counter-terror resources, with over 2,000 people having now been arrested – a staggering 3,100 percent increase in counter-terror arrests.
‚Rather than being used to protect the public, the Terrorism Act is being used as a political tool to silence them.
During the judgement, four judges, including the Lady Chief Justice, also granted Palestine Action‘s co-founder, Huda Ammori, two further grounds to challenge the ban, that were previously rejected.
These grounds include that the Home Secretary, at the time, failed to consider relevant information or/and considered irrelevant information, and that she failed to follow her published policy „which prescribes that certain factors may be taken into account“.
Following Friday‘s judgement, Ammori praised the decision and described it as an „authoritarian ban“ that must be opposed.
“The court recognized what we’ve said all along: there is no rebellion, no invasion, and no justification for militarizing our communities,“ Rayfield said in response to the ruling. „The President cannot keep playing whack-a-mole with different states’ Guard units to get around court orders and the rule of law.”
Oregon and Portland went back to the court — this time with California as an additional party to the lawsuit — and asked U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut for a new temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from sending the California National Guard to Oregon.
In her ruling, Immergut barred any National Guard members from being relocated from any state for service in Oregon. One day earlier, she had temporarily blocked the Trump administration from federalizing the Oregon National Guard.
(October 5, 2025)
President Donald Trump deployed 300 California National Guard troops to Portland after a federal judge blocked the president’s call-up of Oregon’s National Guard, a workaround that has already drawn a new round of legal challenges.
Late Sunday, Gov. Gavin Newsom joined Oregon leaders’ pending lawsuit, asking Portland-based U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut to block Trump’s effort to sidestep her initial ruling by deploying California troops.
(September 28, 2025)
The state of Oregon filed a lawsuit Sunday to block President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy 200 National Guard troops to Portland.
The suit was announced by Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield within hours of Gov. Tina Kotek receiving a memo from Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth, in which he authorized the troop deployment for 60 days.
Though Netanyahu continues to act with the same old arrogant attitude that he, his government, and country are above the law, including international law, it is incumbent on all of us to remind him and other war criminals that no individual, no entity, and no government is immune to accountability when it comes to the blood of the innocent.
This struggle is not solely for the sake of Gaza; it is for the very soul of humanity. Should Netanyahu’s actions succeed in normalizing genocide in the 21st century, this horrific crime could become a sanctioned political strategy for tyrants and regimes worldwide. The world cannot afford to let this happen. The future of global justice hangs in the balance.
Berlin, den 19. September 2025
Strafantrag
Sehr geehrter Herr Rommel,
hiermit stellen wir Namens und in Vollmacht von ….
S t r a f a n t r a g
wegen sämtlicher in Betracht kommender Straftatbestände, insbesondere aber wegen Beihilfe zum Völkermord gem. § 6 Abs. 1 VStGB i.V.m. § 2 VStGB, § 27 Abs. 1 StGB, Beihilfe zu Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit gem. § 7 Abs. 1, 3, 5 VStGB i.V.m. § 2 VStGB, § 27 Abs. 1 StGB
sowie Beihilfe zu Kriegsverbrechen gem. § 8 Abs. 1 bis 4, § 9ff. VStGB i.V.m. § 2 VStGB, § 27 Abs. 1 StGB
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1. Herrn Olaf Scholz, Bundeskanzler a.D.;
2. Frau Annalena Baerbock, Bundesministerin des Auswärtigen a.D.;
3. Herrn Robert Habeck, Bundesminister für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz a.D.;
4. Herrn Friedrich Merz, Bundeskanzler;
5. Herrn Dr. Johann Wadephul, Bundesminister des Auswärtigen;
6. Frau Katherina Reiche, Bundesministerin für Wirtschaft und Energie;
7. Herrn Boris Pistorius, Bundesminister der Verteidigung;
8. Dr. Jörg Stratmann, Geschäftsführer der Rolls-Royce Solutions GmbH;
9. Herrn Dr. Alexander Sagel, Vorstandsvorsitzender der RENK Group AG seit 1. Februar 2025;
10. Frau Susanne Wiegand, Vorstandsvorsitzende der RENK Group AG bis 31. Januar 2025;
11. Michael Humbek, Geschäftsführer der Dynamit Nobel Defence GmbH.
Es wird namens unserer Mandanten beantragt,
1. ein Ermittlungsverfahren gegen die Beschuldigten einzuleiten,
2. die Beschuldigten verantwortlich zu vernehmen,
3. öffentliche Anklage gegen die Beschuldigten zu erheben
(September 20, 2025)
Konkret wird den elf Beschuldigten zur Last gelegt, mit der Lieferung von Waffen, Komponenten und Ersatzteilen an Israel die Militärmaschinerie des Apartheidstaates zu unterstützen und das genozidale Vorgehen im Gazastreifen erst möglich zu machen. Auf 110 Seiten mit über 600 Fußnoten werden die Anschuldigungen mit Zahlen, Fakten und Expertenaussagen untermauert. Beschuldigt werden neben den eingangs genannten Politikern zudem die beiden amtierenden Minister Johann Wadephul (Auswärtiges Amt) und Katherina Reiche (Wirtschaft und Energie) sowie die Rüstungsmanager Jörg Stratmann (Rolls-Royce Solutions GmbH), Alexander Sagel, Susanne Wiegand (beide Renk Group AG) und Michael Humbek (Dynamit Nobel Defence GmbH).
We demand:
The immediate establishment of an international military force to protect Palestinian civilians.
Immediate cessation of all military actions by Israel against the civilian populations of Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Enforcement of United Nations resolutions and international legal frameworks that recognize the rights of the Palestinian people to peace, security, and self-determination.
Accountability for those responsible for war crimes and violations of human rights.
We call on governments worldwide to stand against these atrocities and fulfill their moral and legal obligations to protect the Palestinian people .
Unsere Forderungen:
– Sofortiger und dauerhafter Waffenstillstand!
– Das tödliche Verteilsystem der sogenannten Gaza Humanitarian Foundation stoppen!
– Die Blockade von Hilfslieferungen in den Gazastreifen beenden!
– Medizinische Evakuierungen aus dem Gazastreifen möglich machen!
– Medizinisches Personal, Patient*innen und Gesundheitseinrichtungen schützen!
On Tuesday morning pro-Palestine campaign group Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA) instructed a legal team to apply for an arrest warrant to be issued for Herzog on „charges of aiding, abetting or procuring direct and indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian objects“.
The Met responded to FOA that afternoon in an email seen by MEE.
In the email, officers confirmed that „the Counter Terrorism Division received the papers relating to your request in respect of Mr Herzog.
President Lee Jae Myung instructed officials to take all-out measures to protect Korean nationals after a U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai Motor–LG Energy Solution battery plant construction site in Georgia detained 475 people, including more than 300 South Koreans.
Foreign Minister Cho Hyun confirmed the figure during an emergency task force meeting at the Government Complex Seoul on Saturday, saying he felt a “serious sense of responsibility” over the incident.
Cho added that the ministry may dispatch senior officials to the site and that he himself could travel to Washington if necessary.