Kevin Jon Heller

Donald Trump has fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in a rambling Truth Social post where he put his own name in quotation marks, raising new questions about Biden's mental fortitude.

Nukes to deter threats to my allies. Nukes to deter threats to my ego.

The only voices Trump trusts are the ones he hears in his head.

Israël-Gaza : la CPI dans la tourmente Pressions, menaces, sanctions : les Etats-Unis, leur allié israélien et quelques pays européens ont multiplié, depuis le printemps 2024, les manœuvres visant à empêcher l’inculpation de Benyamin Nétan...

This is another interesting article by
@stephmaupas.bsky.social, one that covers much of the same ground as the @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social blockbuster. www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...

This is one of the coolest flyers ever. If you happen to be in Istanbul next week, come!

But how can you redact a name from a set of files when that name isn’t in that set of files when that set of files doesn’t exist even thought Obama, Clinton, and JFK created the files themselves?

Remember, the hit-pieces at Drop Site News and the Wall Street Journal both alleged that the Prosecutor pursued the arrest-warrant applications to distract from the allegations against him. This report makes clear nothing could be further from the truth.

A blockbuster report.

The difference between how Doug and I understand "casual Friday" provides unequivocal proof that the relationship between signifier and signified is arbitrary.

"The Americans" or "The Expanse," depending on your genre preferences.

My kid is out of the country. As I sit in my room eating Frosted Flakes out of the box, I realise that the biggest drawback to not wanting your kid to eat certain things is that you have to give those things up, too.

Judge Bars Trump Administration From Punishing 2 Law Professors for I.C.C. Work

Great news that a judge in the SDNY has permanently enjoined, on 1A grounds, the Trump administration from applying IEEPA's civil or criminal penalties to Lisa Davis, an OTP Special Adviser, and Gabor Rona, a law professor who works closely with the #ICC. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...

True, although it initially invoked SC Res. 688 and later claimed self-defence when it attacked specific Iraqi aiplanes and missile sites.

Peru and the Domestic Criminalisation of Ecocide Peru’s Justice and Human Rights Commission of the Congress has just published a unified bill that would add the crime of ecocide to the Peruvian penal code. The next step is for Congress to a…

A short new post by me @opiniojuris.bsky.social on the latest national deviation from the definition of #ecocide promoted by
@stopecocide.bsky.social. Thoughts welcome! opiniojuris.org/2025/07/29/p...

Answer: George Kennan!

Kennan is best known as the author of the US's "containment policy" toward the Soviet Union, first articulated in his famous 1946 "Long Telegram."

Pub quiz: which leading Cold War strategist wrote the quote below in response to the environmental devastation of the Vietnam War?

Answer in the next tweet!

That argument is irreconcilable with the Arrest Warrant decision, because the ICJ affirmed Yerodia's personal immunity even in the face of war-crimes charges. But that decision was more than 15 years ago, so it's good to see an important national court reach the same conclusion.

That is important because a number of scholars have recently argued that war crimes are somehow different -- because if a Head of State can be targeted in an IAC, surely he/she can be captured and prosecuted.

Second, the Court specifically notes that personal immunity applies even when a sitting Head of State is accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide.

Two aspects of the decision are particularly important. First, the Court holds that personal immunity applies even if France denies the legitimacy of a particular sitting Head of State.

France's Court of Cassation has issued two decisions that deny functional immunity for international crimes but reaffirm personal immunity. The decision will no doubt disappoint many in the human-rights community, but as a matter of positive law it is spot on. www.courdecassation.fr/en/toutes-le...

That critical meeting between club and ball. (But, yeah, Trump is a terrible golfer, so there will indeed be many meetings.)

I was, of course, thinking preciselly about Frederiksberg Alle...

I love living in Frederiksberg. But we definitely don't have the quality bike lanes that the rest of Copenhagen has...

The story makes two key points deliberately elided by the dishonest WSJ and Dropsite News stories: (1) the decision to seek warrants for Netanyahu/Gallant was made *before* there were any misconduct allegations; and (2) there was *no* active investigation when the applications were actually filed.

That's "Dr. Unfuckwithable" to him.

It would be great if we could criticise Trump's dismantling of the State Department without conjuring some (imaginary) time when the US was a global force for good. History begs to differ.

Affirmative action is wrong only when it doesn't benefit right-wingers.

The article kindly quotes me -- but only my critical comments about how scholars have tried to aggressively (and in my view wrongly) interpret the 2010 aggression amendments. As I pointed out to the author, I firmly support harmonization and think Western opposition is unprincipled.

The New STCoA: The Good, the Bad, the Curious, and the Terrible On June 25, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE) and the President of Ukraine signed an agreement to create a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine (STCoA). T…

New @opiniojuris.bsky.social: my long analysis of the #STCoA Statute -- the good, the bad, the curious, and the terrible. Thoughts welcome! #Ukraine #Russia #Aggression opiniojuris.org/2025/07/11/t...