ジャック・リード上院議員は公聴会にて、国防長官がトランプ氏に対しイランでの戦争に関する正確な状況を伝えていないと述べた。US politics live – latest updatesSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email ピート・ヘグセス氏は、ドナルド・トランプ氏に対しイランとの戦争の正確な実態を伝えず、「危険なほど誇張された」発言を繰り返すことで米軍の勝利という不正確なイメージを作り出していると、民主党幹部が木曜日の連邦議会議事堂での公聴会で語った。上院軍事委員会の民主党筆頭委員であるジャック・リード氏は、ヘグセス国防長官に対し、勝利とは程遠く、米国民は燃料価格の上昇という形で、自らが支持していない戦争の代償を負わされていると述べた。 Continue reading...
Home secretary is challenging high court decision that PA’s proscription interfered with freedom of speechThe ban on Palestine Action has created a “culture of fear” among those campaigning for Palestinian rights and judges were right to deem it unlawful, the court of appeal has heard.Shabana Mahmood is challenging the high court’s decision in February that Palestine Action’s proscription, the first of a direct action protest group, represented a “very significant interference” with the rights to freedom of speech and assembly. It also found that the ban, which remains in place pending the appeal, was a breach of the home secretary’s own policy on proscription. Continue reading...
Lawyer for DoJ argued actions taken in public while in possession of a smartphone afforded no expectation of privacyThe US supreme court is considering whether sprawling warrants for smartphone location data infringe on Americans’ privacy rights and violate the constitution.Justices heard opening arguments in Chatrie v United States on Monday that concerned law enforcement’s reliance on so-called “geofence warrants” in difficult cases. The case was originally brought by Okello Chatrie, whose phone location data helped police in Richmond, Virginia, track him down after he robbed a bank at gunpoint and escaped with $195,000 in 2019. Chatrie pleaded guilty to armed robbery and was sentenced to 12 years in prison, but his lawyers argue none of the evidence against him should have been admissible in court. Continue reading...