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Month: July 2022

Rise in gasoline prices threatens social stability and food security in Latin America

By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN South American countries are bracing for an autumn of discontent, as spiking global fuel prices threaten to provoke more protests in the upcoming months. Rising fuel prices have already brought about protests in Argentina, Ecuador and Panama. Their neighbors could be particularly susceptible to rising prices at the pump, because the

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Justice Jackson dissents in first vote as Supreme Court won’t reinstate Biden immigration policies

By Ariane de Vogue and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to freeze a lower court order that blocked the Department of Homeland Security from implementing new immigration enforcement priorities, in a case marking Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson‘s first vote since joining the court. Jackson and Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and

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DC lawyers’ disciplinary board says ex-DOJ official Jeffrey Clark lied in his attempts to overturn 2020 election

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, whom Donald Trump wanted to install as attorney general so he could use the department to help him overturn the 2020 election, violated his professional code of conduct, the disciplinary office governing lawyers in Washington, DC, said. The DC disciplinary counsel,

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