Declaring that no quarter will be given unequivocally violates international humanitarian law. Indeed, ordering that no quarter will be given, threatening an adversary therewith or conducting hostilities on this basis is prohibited and constitutes a war crime.
“What are the lessons from the Parisian revolution?
First, pushing out cars improves life for most inhabitants.
Lesson 2 is that banishing cars doesn’t hurt an urban economy.
Lesson 3: car-free cities must offer people good alternative ways to travel. Paris itself does.”
@simonkuper.bsky.social
Personally, I think people who are between the third and fourth quintile of income-earners in California should probably pay some income tax.
This is the way.
Shouldn't be rare to see this said by a US senator
In @nybooks.com, Sandeep Vaheesan reflects on New Deal electrification and how to build the electrostate.
FWIW here's the paper.
It builds on one of the most successful environmental legal campaigns of all time to argue for a fundamental change in how we conceptualize utilities!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I never use AI to write my law review articles. I earn every rejection on my own 😊
I agree, quite apart from the merits of the case. Alito could only defend the Supreme Court's authority to intervene by grievously misrepresenting the facts. The reality is that there's no plausible argument SCOTUS had the power to do what it did. Why didn't that matter to six justices?
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
This thread on Alito's outrageously misrepresentation of the facts in the NY voting rights case is so damning. Alito's account was misleading to the point of falsity. And there's nothing anybody can do about it. He gets to toss around bogus claims without any consequence.
This is how we do constitutional law now, fyi
NEW: There are a number of significant state oral arguments this month, covering mid-decade redistricting, ghost guns, access to voter data, gender affirming care for minors, and more. Check out @skess108.bsky.social’s roundup in @statecourtreport.org. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
It’s crazy that it’s basically just a combination of the single worst most disastrous parts of every administration in history
Strongly recommend this excellent piece. It actually understates the US failure: Brazil and S. Korea aren’t outliers. Quite the opposite. Since 2010, 31 democracies have convicted or banned leaders from office. Accountability is the democratic norm. America is the sole outlier.
Wow. +7 majority support for court expansion—an eye popping +37 among Dems—is the BEFORE number, with little to no national messaging.
This stunt where ICE releases people far from home with no proper clothing and no way home should be treated as attempted homicide. In this case, actual homicide. These cases are not accidental or based on misunderstandings. They are deliberate attempts to inflict bodily harm.
the central problem of a set of economic promises significantly premised on homeownership as the asset which stabilizes and assures the security of people. How do you make that asset expensive (and increasing over time!) and yet avoid locking new consumers out of homeownership?
Painful to read this and think about the 2021 coup attempt, which was as blatant as it gets. An utter failure of US elites to seize the moment when everybody saw the threat right in front of their eyes.
If we have history books in the future, they will be unkind.
I found that this is wrong. Democracy actually is a powerful motivating force for a critical slice of the population *if they perceive a real threat*.
I call this the "legibility" theory of democratic backsliding: the more legible the threat, the more likely it is to prompt effective pushback.
“For years, companies have employed bots or orchestrated fake ‘AstroTurf’ campaigns to create the appearance of grassroots opinion on an issue, but the introduction of AI technology could make it even harder for elected officials to engage in earnest with the public.”
Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
I’m thrilled, yes, & also stunned and bewildered, to announce that my job talk paper, Religion as Public Law, will be published in the Yale Law Journal next year. 1/6
Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
Whenever you read a horrifying list like this about people who are critically ill or died in ICE concentration camps it’s important to remember that these are just the stories that got out because they were lucky enough to have lawyers who could tell their stories.
The best case scenario is that Trump will waste $38 billion. The more likely outcome is that these will become warehouses of human suffering, and a permanent stain on America's history.
“It feels like someone just lit a match on your eyelid and put out a match on your eyelid”
This is a helluva reporting job by @nbcnews.com with videos, photos & eyewitness accounts of how the ICE rampage through American cities is inflicting "grievous injuries" on people. Read/share:
