Thinking ahead and anticipating the consequences of your actions is woke and DEI.
Israel's non-Article-51 letter to the UN repeatedly refers to "ongoing" Iranian hostilities (or armed conflict), but conspicuously doesn't identify any armed attacks by/ attributable to Iran between last year's ceasefire and the recent attacks by Israel/U.S.
@justsecurity.org
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UNICEF says that in just 12 days of war in the Middle East, more than 1,100 children have been reported injured or killed in the violence. “This includes 200 children reportedly killed in Iran, 91 in Lebanon, four in Israel and one in Kuwait.“
This lawless war has to stop.
“I have a lot of questions but I don't think they are going to be answered today”
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“The stakes could not be higher. The prohibition on the resort to force in international relations is the keystone of the contemporary international legal system. If it were to fall into desuetude, the consequences would be felt first and foremost in the catastrophic human toll of war.”
If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.
On congressional Iran hawks who oppose war powers legislation:
1) Haven't seen any introduce a recent Iran AUMF to authorize this war.
2) Likely b/c they know it would be deeply unpopular & fail. And they don't want to own a vote for war.
3) So they surrender their constitutional power to POTUS.
they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends
“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“
A double-tap strike on little girls at school.
Congratulations DHS Secretary Stephen miller on continuing to be DHS Secretary
So there’s a report on Bluesky this morning that Claude misidentified the school tragically hit in Iran as a military target, except the report is itself sourced to Claude? Am I the one hallucinating now?
Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.
People are rightly concerned about the idea that decisions to go to war might turn on the President’s whim, on his opinion, alone, that Iran was “going to attack.”
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So glad that the US Congress thoroughly considered and publicly debated the costs of this war before voting to authorize it.
9–0 in favor of the plaintiffs!
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
"[T]hose who join a war that has been undertaken without a cause worthy of approval draw upon themselves the desert of punishment, in a degree proportionate to the injustice which lies in their action."
De iure belli 3.1.3 (1625)
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The strongest arguments against qualified immunity reform are that lawsuit costs would skyrocket and officer retention would plummet. Alex Reinert, Jim Pfander, and I studied qualified immunity reforms in Colorado and New Mexico and can report: the sky is not falling. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The UK's legal position on the use of its bases in the Middle East is solid with one glaring hole: The US cannot act in collective self-defence with the Gulf States. It is the aggressor. Ergo the UK cannot assist the US in collective self-defence.
the brilliance of the UN Charter's ban on and conditions for use of force -- legitimate individual or collective self-defense, or Security Council authorization -- is that it challenges governments to justify what is the most devastating use of state power. it's also intuitive.
"When the state is growing weak, the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity." -- Rousseau, Social Contract, 2.5
Strike: when we bomb someone
Attack: when someone else bombs us
On the role of Congress in the decision to take the nation to war.
Read the final paragraph of Justice Neil Gorsuch's opinion in the Supreme Court tariffs case.⤵️
"[M]ost major decisions affecting the rights and responsibilities of the American people ...
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Antonio Guterres is up first at this Security Council meeting. He condemns this morning’s strikes by Israel and the US on Iran, and the return strikes by Iran on countries in the region. There is, he says, no alternative to the peaceful settlement of disputes
"With regard to those who advocate war Aristotle says: 'Do they oftentimes give no thought to the injustice of enslaving neighbours and those who have done no wrong?'"
De iure belli 2.22.3 (1625)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...
"With regard to those who advocate war Aristotle says: 'Do they oftentimes give no thought to the injustice of enslaving neighbours and those who have done no wrong?'"
De iure belli 2.22.3 (1625)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...
Making my way through the amicus briefs filed in support of respondents in Trump v. Barbara and more than 10 of them address the risk of statelessness in a fairly significant way. Many others at least mention it in passing. A thread on the most significant arguments re: statelessness 1/
We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs.
Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.
The Supreme Court:
"Due process is not a courtesy extended at the government’s convenience. Due process is the condition that makes custody lawful in the first place... When liberty is restrained without a meaningful opportunity to be heard, the Constitution’s promise is not delayed. It is denied."
