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Senate Passes TRIA Reauthorization as House-Senate Differences Await Resolution
By Zachary Lerner, Dani D'Annunzio
On September 28, 2026, the U.S. Senate passed, by unanimous consent, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2026 (S. 4395), which would extend the federal terrorism insurance backstop…
Michael Geist
Nobody Can Say They Weren’t Warned: Canada’s Threat Assessments Predicted the Belleville Yom Kippur Attack
The shooting outside the Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville on the eve of Yom Kippur should not have come as a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention…
The Southern District of Florida Blog
Alleged Russian Plot Involves Cuban "God"
By jordic-martnez-cidsdfla-blogspot-com
By Jordi C. Martínez-CidThis a glib title for an allegedly serious plot being charged out of the Southern District of New York. The indictment chargies five people, allegedly working at…
The Justice Gap
Birmingham Four: ‘We have truth on our side’
By Jon Robins
One of the four Muslim men known collectively as the Birmingham Four who claimed to have been fitted up by an undercover policing operation addressed a meeting convened to mark…
The Justice Gap
Palestine Action activists appeal ‘terrorist’ sentences never put to jury
Four Palestine Action activists, the ‘Filton Four’, have launched an appeal against being sentenced on the basis of a ‘terrorist connection’ despite never being convicted of a terrorism offence. Charlotte Head,…
Original Jurisdiction
Judicial Notice (09.13.26): Weak Sauce
By David Lat
On June 4, 2013, President Barack Obama announced the D.C. Circuit nominations of Robert L. Wilkins, Cornelia T.L. Pillard, and Patricia Ann Millett, at an event in the White House…
JURIST
Secret court orders deportation of Afghan woman accused of terrorism
The Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC) on Friday ordered the removal of an Afghan woman in its first-ever use, after she had reached an agreement with the US Department of…
9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Claims Blog
A Seventh Moment of Silence: Honoring the Lives Lost in the Years Since 9/11
For twenty-four years, the annual commemoration at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in Lower Manhattan has paused for six moments of silence. Each one marks a defining instant of that morning: the…
Michael Geist
The Lessons of 9/11 We Forgot After October 7th
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sundown tonight. This year, it falls at the same time as the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks and weeks before…
9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Claims Blog
Twenty-Five Years On
September 11, 2026 marks twenty-five years since the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Twenty-five years is a strange measure of time.…