I can’t believe America missed the opportunity to let this man wield executive power. The amount of crazy we would have seen from a Gingrich administration would have made Trump look like Dwight Eisenhower.
I may have used strong language but in case this hasn’t been clear the war in Iran is unquestionably illegal (the great @oonahathaway.bsky.social already wrote about this). I completely agree that, after the broadest possible interpretation of military necessity, states no longer bother to justify
This is such a good point. Transitions are a point of vulnerability for authoritarian systems, and the decapitation strike against Khamenei denied the Iranian people any meaningful opportunity to push back against the ascension of another hardliner.
Also I’m sure the authors, as fair minded academics, would have no trouble applying the same logic to justify Iranian, Hezbollah, and even Hamas attacks against Israeli civilian targets. The Israeli population overwhelmingly supports their military, so presumably they’re fair game as well.
It’s pretty telling that six months after publishing an article purporting to refute the genocide allegations, these same four authors put out a piece essentially asserting the collective responsibility of Gaza’s civilian population.
Peak Israel logic: we didn’t do it, but it was also justified.
I've spent the bulk of my career working on freedom of expression, and argued vociferously against attempts to smear anti-Israel speech as antisemitic - but I'm very comfortable classifying the second post, in particular, as just straight up hate speech.
Legal writers: I've posted to SSRN a short user's guide about how to use the Zotero citation manager and its Word plugin to automatically generate Bluebook citations that are 95%* compliant. The paper explains which fields to use for which type of source, and examples of generated citations.
The short peak season has begun in the strawberries on CA's Central Coast. In this 9 hour day, "Irma" managed to pick 90 flats or 1,020 of the plastic 1 pint boxes we buy at a supermarket. (A flat holds 12 plastic one pint baskets). She earns $2.20 a flat. #WeFeedYou
Any time your understanding of the world leads you to justify political violence should be cause to stop and reflect about the moral perspectives that brought you to that place.
Dems should pledge to sign and ratify the ICC treaty that Clinton signed but W (smartly for his ppl) refused to push thru.
Make it clear we will arrest these ppl… and ship them someplace no future vice-signaling GOP Pres’s pardon power can reach.
America's strategy bros about to discover why they should have read all of the Peloponnesian Wars and not just the bit about strong states vs weak states
Inside the Department of War are two wolves:
"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."
"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
The Embassy of Lebanon in Washington, D.C., and the Lebanese Consulate in Detroit issued a statement strongly condemning the terrorist attack on a Jewish synagogue in Michigan, rejecting all violence against places of worship and innocent civilians. 🇱🇧
The last world leader I recall who bombed demonstrators was Basher Assad.
Part of this is surely just the passage of time, but I think students are objectively getting more impressive.
The thing about crimes against humanity is you never stop with one.
Concentrations of wealth are the biggest threat to democracy around the world and it's not a particularly close call.
These people/families have too much money, too much ego and too much time on their hands, and the result is constant disruption to the functioning of our governance institutions.
i think jamelle bouie is where i got this point from (though its obviously not unique to him): trump doesnt escape consequences so much as the institutions designed to impose consequences refuse to penalize him. this is absolutely not the same thing. hes not magic, people are just lazy and stupid.
just posted a new paper, How Tech Took Over, to SSRN.
It's about how decades of legal and policy interventions made the tech industry an essential partner in public governance. I map the kinds of functions tech cos are performing today, and I argue that their activities are salient to con law.
It gets better. Here's Vance and Rubio in the Oval Office...
I believe Grammarly's legal team consists of Atticus Finch*, Thomas Jefferson*, Clarence Darrow*, Perry Mason*, and Portia*.
(* May be AI)
So, does Grammerly have, y’know, lawyers?
And assuming the answer is yes, what exactly do they spend their days doing?
Because if I could see this lawsuit coming a mile away, how is it possible their in-house counsel gave it the green light?
First article I've seen claim to have direct confirmation that Bahrain has re-invited foreign forces into the country to help suppress protestors. Interestingly, in this case it is alleged that the kingdom is using Jordanian anti-riot police.
Talk about a Temu trademark threat.
They heard INDOPACOM saying the PLAN was the enemy and they decided the plan was the enemy
It's not really my area of expertise, but shouldn't Eva and Bruce (and anyone else the machine is trying to ape) have a colorable right of publicity claim here?
Especially if they argued that the feature is potentially competing against consulting work they might themselves do in this space?
Hard to be optimistic after everything that’s happened, but it’s quite possible that the 2026 elections mark a real and lasting paradigm shift around America’s support for Israel.
And if the U.S. posture changes, Canada and other democracies are unlikely to continue to hold the line.
One of the most underrated tragedies of the Biden interregnum is that he and his most trusted advisors looked at a model of regional order designed by Jared Kushner and, for whatever their reasons, thought it was a good idea.
UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project is Hiring a Staff Attorney electionlawblog.org?p=154734
Revoking citizenship is one of the darkest paths a democracy can go down.
Canada actually grappled with this 10 years ago, and Trudeau's response that "A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian" was a very affirming moment of our culture and values: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/video...
