Benjamin Farley

Impressive that Collinsworth can carry that much water for the Pats at 67.

“God bless America,” holding a pigskin, and listing every country in the Americas is tremendous—and tremendously subversive

I only know it mythically

Where’ve you been?

Pentagon Official Rejects Plea Deal in U.S.S. Cole Bombing Case

Breaking News: A Pentagon official has rejected a proposal to settle the USS Cole bombing case with a plea agreement and a sentence of up to life in prison, setting the stage for the first death penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay to start this summer.

Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something *Real* Bad No, I don't know what they did. But I have a lot of experience with the senator

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

Minnesota ICE Enforcement: Alleged Constitutional Violations The ACLU and partners sued over alleged racial profiling and unlawful arrests in Minnesota. Read sworn declarations and case details.

Minnesota ICE Enforcement: Tracking Alleged Constitutional Violations in Court

A searchable bank of plaintiffs’ sworn statements of what happened to them.

www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...

#RacialProfiling #ICE

"Is President Maduro a Prisoner of War?" by Tracey Begley, Benjamin R. Farley, and Michael Schmitt
www.justsecurity.org/129407/presi...

Well, shame on me for not taking better advantage of the Kennedy Center before it went the way of the East Wing

Let’s hope the Kennedy Center 2 year renovation is not à la east wing “renovation”.

Note: That feels like appropriately a million years ago. It was October…

A reminder that the New England Patriots plane is flown by Omni air who contracts with ICE to fly people in chains to Africa and Asia several times per week.

Go Seahawks.

Earlier this week, @mikeschmitt.bsky.social, Tracey Begley, and I offered our thoughts on Nicolas Maduro's likely entitlement to POW status while in US custody @justsecurity.org -- check it out: www.justsecurity.org/129407/presi...

Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Jan. 24-30, 2026) Minnesota / ICE and CBP Operations • Collection: U.S. Lethal Strikes • U.S. Actions Related to Venezuela • Syria • Symposium: Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity • Symposium: International Courts and En...

Catch up on our recent analysis:

• Minnesota / ICE and CBP Operations
• U.S. Actions Related to Venezuela
• Iran
• Syria
• Symposium: Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity
• Symposium: International Courts and Ending Wars
• Global Governance
• Trump Executive Actions
• Emerging Technologies

Guess the whistles are working

Yes, and it’s the nature of authoritarian consolidation generally. Lights should be blinking red—all of them

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.

But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Minnesota and the Threat of American Authoritarianism "This fight is not just about protecting immigrants—it is about protecting American democracy," writes Kica Matos.

"Make no mistake, this fight is not just about protecting immigrants—it is about protecting American democracy. And increasingly, more Americans are heeding the call."

Read NILC President Kica Matos' full
@time.com op-ed: time.com/7362221/minn...

Source familiar with Don Lemon's arrest tells me DOJ went to a grand jury to secure an indictment (DOJ's effort to get a criminal complaint had already been rejected in court twice).

This is ugly. More soon.

Minnesota and the Threat of American Authoritarianism "This fight is not just about protecting immigrants—it is about protecting American democracy," writes Kica Matos.

time.com/7362221/minn...

Earlier this week, @mikeschmitt.bsky.social, Tracey Begley, and I offered our thoughts on Nicolas Maduro's likely entitlement to POW status while in US custody @justsecurity.org -- check it out: www.justsecurity.org/129407/presi...

ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

Is President Maduro a Prisoner of War? Three theories by which POW status might attach to a person in Maduro’s position, and the consequences of entitlement to that status.

“We conclude that Maduro likely qualifies as a POW under one (or more) of the theories explained below, and as such should be afforded that status while in U.S. custody.”

www.justsecurity.org/129407/presi...

Does the U.S. capture of Maduro trigger POW status? Just Security analysis from former State Dept advisor and IHL scholars lays out three legal theories. Key point: the U.S. cannot simply declare there is no war when it used armed force against another state.

Is President Maduro a Prisoner of War? Three theories by which POW status might attach to a person in Maduro’s position, and the consequences of entitlement to that status.

During his first court appearance in the United States, Maduro demanded to be afforded POW status. But does he have it? According to Tracey Begley, Benjamin Farley, and @mikeschmitt.bsky.social, he likely does. Read more here:

www.justsecurity.org/129407/presi...

#Maduro #Venezuela #POW #IHL

While this isn't an invasion of Ecuador, it does look like a breach (or attempted breach) of U.S. obligations under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.

It also might violate U.S. criminal law intended to implement U.S. international law obligations. E.g., 18 USC 112 & 878

We Told You So: Now What for Northeast Syria? Chaos in the camps and prisons in NE Syria was predictable. The new Syrian government must provide security and protection to the detainees.

"Slowly then all at once"--true for bankruptcy and the end of the SDF's detention regime in northeast Syria, alike. But with it, new challenges, the same old challenges, and some even worse ones.

From @niaolainf.bsky.social and @annecharbord.bsky.social:

www.justsecurity.org/129727/north...

Pinnacle of professionalism

BREAKING: We, alongside the ACLU (@aclu.org), ACLU Mass. (@aclum.bsky.social), and Prof. Jonathan Hafetz of Seton Hall Law School, have joined the family members of two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. missile strike in Oct. in suing the U.S. government for wrongful death and extrajudicial killing.