Category: Sovereignty Rights

Members of the Scottish Parliament have tabled a motion to repeal the new hate crime law that critics view as hostile to free speech. The legal nonprofit ADF International announced in a statement Tuesday that an effort to repeal Scotland’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act was tabled by the Scottish Parliament.

After adoption, Nigeria said it was “distasteful” and “unacceptable” that controversial language was being spread in all UN agreements. She called on the UN system to respect national laws and religious and cultural values.

AntiFems face a dilemma. On one hand, they want to affirm, protect, and promote the distinctiveness of women. On the other hand, they oppose what at present seems like the only viable strategy for achieving that end, the recovery and extension of an authentic feminism.

The research team I work with is currently knee-deep into categorizing the legal approach that each nation takes with regard to prostitution. This project has really opened my eyes to the wide variety of approaches taken. For example, in some countries, buying sex is perfectly legal but providing that sex for money is strictly illegal. In other cases, we’ve seen countries do abrupt legal U-turns as they discover that the approach they are taking is making things worse.

The Supreme Court will soon hear what may be the most important case of the term, one that epitomizes the broken political culture of our time. Murthy v. Missouri involves, in the words of the district court that first took it up, “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.” Missouri, Louisiana, and other state, individual, and associational plaintiffs have uncovered substantial evidence of the federal government coercing and otherwise pressuring social media companies to take down constitutionally protected speech.