Federal court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs under emergency powers law
By AP and published by Yahoo!News and BBC Washington – A federal court on Wednesday (May 28) blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law, swiftly throwing into doubt Trump’s signature set of economic policies that have rattled global financial markets, frustrated trade partners and raised broader fears […]
Read MoreSupreme Court’s juggling of Thaksin lawsuit unprecedented phenomenon: Academic
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE EVENT IN WHICH the Supreme Court lifted a lawsuit filed against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra but simultaneously decided to open a court trial on it may be viewed as an unprecedented phenomenon in Thai judicial history, a prominent Thammasat University academic commented […]
Read MoreSupreme Court lifts law-breaking case against Thaksin, Corrections Dept
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE SUPREME COURT has again waived a repeated lawsuit against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra as a former convict at large as well as the Corrections Department on charges of otherwise deliberately breaking the law. The Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits […]
Read MoreNominees for Charter Court judges rejected by senators
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a preplanned, concerted move of pro-Bhumjaithai senators, a couple of prominent nominees for judge of the Constitutional Court were overwhelmingly denied by those senior lawmakers today (March 18). In a weekly Senate session, a prevailing majority of the senators, over 100 of whom are known […]
Read MoreConstitutional Court urged to hold polling agency guilty, annul senatorial races
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT was today (March 12) pleaded to hold the Election Commission guilty of failure to hold last year’s senatorial elections in fair and clean fashion and to declare the notorious races to parliament null and void, albeit in retroactive fashion. Nataporn Toprayoon, a former adviser to the Office […]
Read MoreFresh bid hatched to have Thaksin returned to jail
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE SUPREME COURT will be formally asked to pass a retroactive ruling to return de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra to prison after he had practically failed to serve a royal pardon-curtailed, one-year jail term last year. Former Democrat MP Charnchai Issarasenarak will shortly petition Supreme Court judges in […]
Read MoreFormer Democrat MPs moving against Thaksin: Lawyer
A LAWYER said in a Facebook post today (Oct. 20) that some former Democrat Party MPs are gearing up to petition the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Persons Holding Political Positions to determine whether the Corrections Department violated the law by moving de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra to Police Hospital for medical […]
Read MoreAll election commissioners may be booted out for alleged senatorial election fiasco
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ALL ELECTION COMMISSIONERS might possibly be deposed by court for alleged failure to hold a clear-cut and clean election for senators a few months earlier. The seven election commissioners could possibly not only be immediately ousted by the Constitutional Court but subsequently face criminal indictments for the alleged failure to […]
Read MorePeople’s Party slams Constitutional Court’s budget
A PEOPLE’S Party MP lambasted a budget for a Constitutional Court course which allegedly did not meet the objective during the last day of deliberation of the 3.75 trillion baht 2025 budget legislation in the House of Representatives today (Sept. 5), Naewna newspaper said. Ms. Sasinan Thamnithinan, People’s Party MP for Bangkok, said the […]
Read MoreSrettha deposed by Constitutional Court as Pheu Thai-attached PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SRETTHA THAVISIN was today (Aug 14) immediately deprived of his status as prime minister at an order of the Constitutional Court under an impeachment lawsuit. The Constitutional Court judges voted 5:4 to remove the Pheu Thai-attached Srettha from his elected premiership as he was finally found guilty of having severely […]
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