The Supreme Court will review the Trump administration’s denial of bond hearings for detained immigrants. The court will consider whether immigrants have a right to a hearing to determine if they should remain detained while challenging their possible deportations. Appeals court judges from nine of 11 federal circuits have separately concluded that detaining immigrants without a bond hearing violates federal law. Those decisions conflict with rulings by the 5th and 8th circuits, which held that immigrants accused of illegally entering the United States must be detained while their deportation cases are pending. – Associated Press

A failed execution in Tennessee is drawing scrutiny to capital punishment systems. Convicted of murder in the 1990s, Christa Pike was set to become the first woman to face the death penalty in Tennessee in more than 200 years. After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal, the planned execution moved ahead, but Ms. Pike was not killed by two efforts to administer a lethal drug dose. Her lawyers said Ms. Pike was receiving medical care in a Nashville hospital.
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The family of Renee Good sued the Trump administration over her killing during deportation sweeps. Ms. Good was fatally shot in her car by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Jan. 7, when she joined a protest against masked and armed federal agents deployed to Minnesota to arrest migrants for deportation. The two lawsuits say Trump administration officials were negligent and violated the civil rights of Good and others in Minneapolis, demanding a jury trial and damages. – Reuters

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The former Dallas police officer who killed Botham Jean has been released on parole. Amber Guyger shot Mr. Jean in his apartment in 2018, saying she thought she was in her own and had mistaken him for an intruder. The Dallas Police Department fired her after the incident, and she was convicted of murder in 2019. She had served seven years of a nine-year sentence. According to the Texas Pardons and Parole Board, the reasons for her release include that she does not have “a documented pattern of violent or assaultive arrests/convictions.”

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Two months ago, Morocco made large-font, boldface global headlines. Some 70,000 of its citizens forcibly crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on the tip of North Africa.

A few days ago, the country’s appointment of its first female head of government was also reported in the international press – but with somewhat less prominence.

Yet, this step is a significant marker for Morocco and the broader Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Governments from tiny Qatar and Kuwait to much larger Saudi Arabia and Algeria are navigating shifting attitudes around the role of women – while also confronting economic and employment challenges.

Most of the mostly young Moroccans who flooded Ceuta – frustrated with a sluggish economy and encouraged by social media posts – returned home in a few days. Last October, their calls for clean government and more democratic freedoms had spilled over into street protests. These demands will top the to-do list for Prime Minister Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, the French- and U.S.-educated lawyer who was named to the post on Sept. 29.

“We are fully aware … of the high expectations of citizens, particularly young people,” she said, promising “realistic and concrete solutions.”

Much of the MENA region is recognizing that women’s inclusion and participation is one key to achieving “realistic” solutions. Neighboring Tunisia has had two women prime ministers and Morocco leads the way in parliamentary representation of women (at 27%), followed closely by Egypt and Mauritania. The Gulf Arab nations have fewer women in politics, although an increasing share in the workforce. Overall, public support for women as political leaders “dramatically increased” in most MENA countries over a 10-year period, according to a 2023 Arab Barometer survey.

In part, these changes have been spurred by – and continue to spur – deeper examinations of Islamic teachings by religious leaders as well as civilian scholars.

“These are questions that concern all of society; they are not the monopoly of theologians or the religious sphere alone,” according to Asma Lamrabet, a Moroccan scholar and rights advocate. In a Q&A on her website, she upholds the religious guidance of Islam’s holy text, the Quran, but notes that many “laws that derive from it are ... human social constructs” that can be reformed.

Earlier this year, the grand imam of Egypt’s widely respected Al-Azhar Mosque and University made statements in a similar vein, as reported in Egyptian media. Under Islam centuries ago, the imam indicated, women had rights to education, inheritance, and choice of a husband. But emerging cultural customs overshadowed these rights, “leading to confusion and social disorientation.”

Announcing resolutions by Al-Azhar’s Council of Senior Scholars in February, Imam Ahmed Al-Tayyeb affirmed a charter that included “women’s right to all professions, including senior state positions,” an “absolute prohibition of domestic violence,” freedom of movement, and rights in case of divorce and division of marital assets.

In Dr. Lamrabet’s view, the benefits of renewed conceptions of religion help uplift more than women alone. They offer a path that can lead nations and citizens toward “what should be just, equitable, and for the common good ... of society.”