Brother of US attorney general Pam Bondi, seeks to lead the Washington, D.C. bar association which oversees the ethical obligations of Washington attorneys
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Midwives could be allowed to prescribe abortion pills in Sweden under new abortion legislation – home abortions without prior clinic pill visit to be permitted
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Reasoning backward and forward: US birthright citizenship and the horseshoe
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Denmark is to ban mobile phones in schools and after-school clubs on the recommendation of a government commission
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US President Donald Trump sets the stage for legal chaos by reaffirming that Elon Musk actually runs Department of Government Efficiency
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TikTok ban fueled by Israel, not China: US Congressional insiders spill the beans on how the law was passed
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The legal blueprint for radical federalism - to protect state autonomy in the US
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Attorneys are resigning in response to orders from US President Donald Trump's government
US attorney - Danielle Sassoon US attorney - Hagen Scotten
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Interview - how Elon Musk blurs the lines of US free speech and raises tough first amendment questions
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Denmark's policy of dispersing residents from neighbourhoods with large ethnic minorities is discriminatory, an adviser to the European Union's top court said
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Sweden's government has announced its intention to pursue a gun control reform law after an attack in the city of Örebro killed eleven people
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US President Donald Trump appointed prosecutor Ed Martin withdrew Jan. 6 case against his own client
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US DeepSeek users could face million-dollar fine and prison time under proposed bill
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Greenland plans to ban foreign political donations over fears about potential interference in its forthcoming elections after attracting Donald Trump's interest
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An interview with Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s president
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US President Donald Trump’s executive orders already face pushback, legal challenges
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South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol arrested as agencies probe his short-lived martial law decree
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Sweden's political parties have agreed that dual citizens who commit crimes that threaten national security should lose their citizenship
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Ohio woman sues hospital, medical staff, city, and police after being arrested for miscarriage
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More than a dozen US states have passed new laws that led to restrictions on pornography. Now, the Supreme Court will weigh in.
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Abortion bans seem to be driving young people to move out of state
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US Republicans introduce constitutional amendment to impose term limits
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What to know about the siege outside South Korea’s presidential compound
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As the European Jewish Association’s first diplomatic envoy, Michael Freilich will go to battle as Jews’ and Muslims’ religious freedoms are systematically shrunk in the EU
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US state courts will also have a strong impact on Donald Trump's plans through their authority over state officials and residents
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South Korea’s President is impeached after martial law crisis
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Texas attorney general Ken Paxton sues New York doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to Texas woman
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What new laws go into effect on Jan 1 in your area?
I don't know how common this is but in Illinois, USA a lot of our new laws signed each year have an effective start date of Jan 1 of the next year. I thought it might be interesting to share some...
I don't know how common this is but in Illinois, USA a lot of our new laws signed each year have an effective start date of Jan 1 of the next year. I thought it might be interesting to share some new laws going into effect in your state and country, if not on Jan 1 specifically then in the coming year.
(Apologies, the tags aren't pre-populating anything useful so I'll leave this to the pro-taggers.)
Edit: fixed my parentheses
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South Korean president declares emergency martial law
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Ballot proposal to end qualified immunity in Ohio in process of getting signatures
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Civil cases against Donald Trump for trying to interfere with the 2020 US election can continue while he is president - analysis
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Turkish woman convicted under anti-terror laws for sharing Guardian article on social media
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Donald Trump expected to try to halt US TikTok ban, allies say
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The case against California Proposition 36
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Billions in election bets are raising the stakes in the US presidential race
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The insidious legal theory behind the US abortion rights rollback
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German government plans to reform adoption law, allowing unmarried couples to adopt and a child to have two mothers
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Swedish government accused of trying to ‘outlaw poverty’ over begging ban – critics say proposal may not be lawful and would not tackle root cause of vulnerability
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Young Donald Trump appointed US judge declares centuries old qui tam case practice unconstitutional
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California just passed the Freelancer Worker Protection Act (SB 988)
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EU supreme court will hear arguments on whether Danish law limiting the concentration of ethnic minorities in certain neighbourhoods violates EU anti-discrimination law
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Mexico's Senate just approved changing the constitution
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California lawmakers pass bill allowing Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes
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Norway's government wants to relax restrictions on abortion to make it legal for women to terminate pregnancies up to the eighteenth week of gestation
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Local Canadian news loses 58% of online engagement, thanks to the Online News Act
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Coinbase appears to have violated US campaign finance laws with a $25 million super PAC donation
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Finland's deportation law puts EU's migration norms to the test – human rights organizations sound the alarm over the controversial measure
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National security or legal niceties? Norway picks a path – closing down opportunities for members of the authoritarian axis is not always as easy as it looks.
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Finnish lawmakers narrowly approved controversial bill that will allow border guards to turn away third-country migrants attempting to enter from neighboring Russia
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Finland's PM Petteri Orpo urged parliament not to weaken a deportation bill that would allow Finnish border authorities to refuse to accept asylum applications in certain circumstances
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