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OSMAN: The Commission calls upon Government to ensure that all those persons who were recently sentenced to death and are on death row, should have their sentences commuted to life The Malawi Human Rights Commission(MHRC) has commended the Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda’s led Supreme Court of Malawi for abolishing death sentence in country as right step towards restoring dignity to human rights especially right to life. On 28th of April, 2021 the Supreme Court ruled that death sentence is unconstitutional and illegal on Khoviwa vs Republic case. “For the past two sessions of the Universal ...

MSU law professor speaks out against the use of his research by Donald Trump's defense team President Donald Trump gives remarks at Dana Inc. in Warren, Michigan, on Jan. 30, 2020. — Photo by Matt Zubik | The State News Former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is underway as Congress is determining if Trump was responsible for the riots that occurred at the U.S. Capitol o...

Back in 2001, I wrote a long law review article exploring an abstract question: Can Congress impeach and try ex-officials for their misconduct in office? The issue of what I labeled “late impeachment” was just a hypothetical back then. It was still only a hypothetical when I wrote a book on weird presidential constitutional issues in 2012 and included a chapter on impeaching ex-presidents. Then last month … well, you know. When it became clear that Donald Trump’s impeachment trial would not begin until after his term ended, I knew my old work would come in handy for both the House man...

A Michigan State University law professor claims that former President Donald Trump’s legal team took him out of context when citing his work in their impeachment trial memorandum.

Print this article The sun rises over the Capitol ahead of former President Trump’s second impeachment trial in Washington, D.C., February 8, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) A law professor says that former president Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team “misrepresented” a 2001 article laying out the arguments for and against late impeachment “quite badly” — a claim the Trump team denies. Brian Kalt, a professor at Michigan State Law School, published a Twitter thread on Monday after the Trump team released its brief ahead of the former president’s second im...