The Separate Regimes Delusion - Last April, Haaretz ran a statement warning the Israeli government against formally annexing its settlements in the occupied West Bank. Opinion polls showed that the public didn’t care much about the issue, but political elites were debating it fiercely. Both proponents and opponents of annexation claimed that the future of Israel and Zionism was at stake. The statement argued that ‘annexation would mean a fatal blow to the possibility of peace and would be the establishment of an apartheid state.’ It was signed by 56 former members of the Knesset, among them former ministers of the interior, foreign affairs,
Ann Claire Williams (right), then still a judge on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, led a discussion with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Auditorium Theatre at Roosevelt University in 2017. Williams was announced Tuesday as the person who will lead an outside investigation of a botched Chicago Police Department raid at the home of a social worker in 2019.
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The first Black woman to become a federal judge in Chicago who was once on the short list for the Supreme Court will lead the investigation into the botched 2019 raid of Anjanette Young’s home.
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TT judge elected to International Criminal Court
Justice Althea Alexis-Windsor - FILE PHOTO
HIGH COURT judge Justice Althea Alexis-Windsor has been elected to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for 2021-2030.
She was one of six judges elected after eight rounds of voting which began on December 18.
There were six vacancies at the court.
Alexis-Windsor was elected in the eighth round with 86 of the 118 votes. She surpassed her rival from Tunisia, Haykel Ben Mahfoudh. Judges who are nominated to the ICC have experience either litigating or adjudicating cases before the International Criminal Tribunals and the ICC itself.
Every candidate for election to the court is also required to have established competence in criminal law and procedure, the necessary experience in criminal proceedings, whether as a judge, prosecutor or advocate, or have established competence in relevant areas of international law such as international humanitarian law and the law of human rights.