Homosexuality Is Punishable By Death In Iran And Iraq

A few years ago, former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif endorsed the execution of gay people. He even defended his country's draconian policies at a joint press conference with then German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas in Tehran in 2019.

A reporter from German tabloid Bild asked: "Why are homosexuals executed in Iran because of their sexual orientation?"

U.S. SC Orders All Judges To Revisit Transgender Rulings

The Supreme Court tossed aside a handful of lower court rulings last 30 June that sided with transgender Americans, requiring that judges in those cases revisit their decisions in the wake of a blockbuster ruling this month that upheld a ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth.

The justices upended rulings that blocked state policies excluding coverage for gender-affirming care in state-sponsored health insurance plans.

SC Justice Amy Barret Eviscerated Liberal Dissenters

It was a very testy moment last 27 June at the U.S. Supreme Court after Justice Amy Coney Barrett had pointed words for her colleague Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, accusing Jackson of taking an "extreme" position on the role of the judiciary branch.

Writing in her Supreme Court opinion on nationwide injunctions, Barrett said Jackson’s dissent contained "rhetoric," and she signaled that the liberal justice’s arguments were not worth much attention.

Women Were Attacked With Syringe In French Music Festival

There were more than a dozen young women who were hospitalized following a syringe attack at a popular music festival.

On Saturday, 21 June, a call was made to police at around 9:15 p.m. local time during the French music event Fêtes de la Musique about "syringe attacks," Metz Mayor François Grosdidier said in a social media post.

U.S. Supreme Court Sided With President Trump Again

The United States Supreme Court has just strengthen the American rule of law by clearing the way for the administration of President Donald Trump to deport migrants and other noncitizens to random countries where they have no ties or connections.

Federal judges in the lower courts had previously blocked the administration from carrying out such removals by citing the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause. The plaintiffs and the courts cited evidence that the government had provided little to no notice to noncitizens facing such removal and had ignored federal law that gives them an opportunity to challenge it.