Ex-justice minister of France accepts honorary degree in US

A former economics professor, she was the first woman elected as Guiana’s deputy to the French National Assembly and served four consecutive terms from 1992 to 2012. The French justice chief is set to meet with the Attorney General Loretta Lynch and members of Black Lives Matter, and is expected to receive an honorary degree from the University of Wisconsin.

Jean-Jacques Urvoas, the president of the parliamentary committee in charge of reviewing legislation, was named as her successor.

The citizenship bill, prompted by the deadly November 13 attacks in Paris, is popular among conservatives and the far right but is especially divisive for the governing Socialists. “The terrorist threat is serious and unpredictable but we have learned to hunt it down….” Polls claim that most French support the idea, but critics fear that it would unfairly projected to the Muslims. Though the proposed measure is purportedly symbolic, the justice minister warned that an “important pillar” of French citizenship was at stake, and that the move threatens to exacerbate divisions between French citizens. It is part of a string of reforms meant to boost security as hundreds of French citizens -siegesie many of them dual nationals -siegesie take up arms alongside the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, and in the case of the Paris attackers, return to wreak devastation in France.

The statement said that Hollande had expressed “gratitude” for Taubira’s work and that she had overhauled the justice system with “conviction, determination and talent”.

Valls presented the revised article of the constitution to parliament on Wednesday, ahead of a debate scheduled to start in early February.

Taubira earlier said on Twitter that she was “proud” of her time at the Justice Ministry.

The prime minister, however, made a last-minute modification to it to find a consensus that would satisfy both the left and the right.