The bill mentions maintaining local biodiversity and ecosystems as reasons that member states could invoke to ban the crops, but Marco Contiero, agriculture policy director at Greenpeace EU here, says the wording is not enough to withstand legal scrutiny if seed producers challenge a ban in court. (sciencemag.org)
He urged the EFCC to channel its energy to a thorough investigation that could withstand legal scrutiny in the court stressing that the media trial could never be an alternative to the courts of the land. (nigeriapoliticsonline.com)
Republicans hold a 32 - 30 majority in the Senate and would be the ones most likely to be impacted if the prison counting law withstands legal scrutiny. (nystateofpolitics.com)