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New Article on Insurrection, Rebellion, and Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment

Michael Stokes Paulsen and I have a new draft article: The Sweep and Force of Section Three, that is forthcoming in the Pennsylvania Law Review. Here is the abstract: Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids holding office by former office holders who then participate in insurrection or rebellion. Because…

Reason

Sri Lankan president vows to strengthen provincial governments to share power with Tamil minority

Sri Lanka’s president says he will strengthen provincial governments to meet long-standing demands for self-rule from the ethnic Tamil minority, an issue that led to a bloody quarter-century civil war in the island nation

The Independent UK

The most controversial Spider-Man stories of all time

Marvel is promising a sequel to Spider-Man's "most notorious" story - and these are the ones that most qualify

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Niger: with a key deadline passed, Nigeria must take decisive steps to prevent a civil war in its neighborhood

The deadline set by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) for the elected president of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum – who was deposed in a coup on July 26 – to be reinstated to office has passed. West Africa is now bracing to see how Ecowas, which has threatened…

The Conversation

A brief history of the Ku Klux Klan Acts: 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump

In the indictment against former President Donald Trump and his role in the Jan. 6 violent attack against the U.S. Capitol, special prosecutor Jack Smith charged the former president with violating four different federal laws – and Trump pleaded not guilty to each one of them on Aug. 3, 2023.

The Conversation

At Yemeni prosthetics clinic, the patients keep coming even though the war has slowed

The civil war in Yemen seems to be cooling off, but its deadly legacy of land mines will be felt for decades. At a prosthetics clinic near the the front line, children bear a disproportionate burden.

WEKU

America is on the brink of another civil war, this one fuelled by Donald Trump

The indictment of former United States president Donald Trump on charges he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election is the most serious test of America’s experiment in constitutional government since December 1860, when the state of South Carolina seceded from the Union and set in motion…

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The charges facing Trump in the Jan. 6 investigation, explained

Trump was charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, witness tampering, conspiracy against the rights of citizens, and obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding.

WEKU

Why Trump is charged under a civil rights law used to prosecute KKK terror

Trump is accused of conspiring to undermine Americans’ right to vote – a charge with roots in the Civil War’s aftermath but used to more broadly prosecute voter fraud conspiracies and election interference, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK

Israeli PM Netanyahu: Judicial Reform Debate Won’t Lead To Violence

Netanyahu assures no civil war amid judicial reform debate in Israel

Zenger

Timeline: A history of ECOWAS military interventions in three decades

The West African bloc has a history of successful military interventions to restore constitutional order in the region.

Al Jazeera

Spain identifies 212 German, Austrian and Dutch fighters who went missing during Spanish Civil War

Spain’s government researchers say they've identified hundreds of foreign fighters who disappeared in the region during the Spanish Civil War

The Independent UK

Will Israel escape civil war? Even if it does, it will surely lose its soul

The new law suffocating judicial independence will bring autocratic rule to Israeli citizens as well as Palestinians

The Guardian - UK

Debate Over Judicial Reform In Israel Raises Concerns Of Societal Division And Potential Civil War

Israel's Judicial Reform Sparks Divisions and Fears of Societal Crisis

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Salon

Has Trump unleashed a new civil war?

This struggle isn't violent, so far — but if states break away from federal control, the United States is finished

Al Jazeera

What are Black July massacres that triggered Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war?

Long-simmering ethnic tensions between mainly Buddhist Sinhalese and largely Hindu Tamil minority led to the civil war.

The Conversation

Has Russia contained the Prigozhin threat? Its long history of managing violent mercenaries suggests so

A month on since pundits declared the imminent start of a new Russian civil war, we’re still waiting. Moreover, we still know very little about what went on when Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a brief rebellion against the Kremlin.

The Guardian - US

Kentucky man finds ‘hoard’ of civil war gold coins worth millions in cornfield

The 800 gold coins date back from 1840 to 1863 and may have been buried as a result of state’s declaration of neutrality during war

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Manipur: why is there conflict and how is the government responding?

As violence between the Meitei and Kuki communities continues in north-east Indian, campaigners criticise the authorities’ response and both sides warn of civil war

The Independent UK

Myanmar's generals unveil giant Buddha statue as they seek to win hearts and minds during civil war

The military-controlled government of strife-torn Myanmar has unveiled a new giant statue of a sitting Buddha that is scheduled to be consecrated on Aug. 1

Salon

Trump DOJ letter signals "ironic twist"

DOJ cited a post-Civil War law targeting white Southerners including KKK who deprived freed slaves of voting rights

The Guardian - UK

Civil war ‘has been embarrassing’: Laurie Canter hopes for golfing peace

The low-profile LIV Englishman fears the sport’s reputation has been harmed but he has high hopes for a ‘blockbuster’ Open

The National (Scotland)

Twitter users come up with new nickname for Sir Keir Starmer

TWITTER users have rebranded Sir Keir Starmer as Sir Kid Starver – as a Labour civil war erupts over the two-child benefit cap.

The Guardian - UK

Rebellious robes and stitches from the civil war: the radical story of Palestinian embroidery

From dresses sewn using forbidden colours to the needlework of political prisoners, a new exhibition threads together rural life in Gaza and today’s modern art

Zenger

Inside The Lillian And Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: Exploring The Rich History Of Jewish Washington

Discover the stories of Jewish life in the nation's capital region, from immigration to civil rights, at the new museum.

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