It took Hungarians 17 years to get rid of Orban's regime.

Hopefully this doesn't mean it will take Greeks one more decade to get rid of their own famiglia...

True.
Sad but true

< Meanwhile, the referendum would have been on whether the last open space in one of Europe's most cemented cities will be "developed" or become a park

In Thessaloniki, 2nd largest city in #GR, 23.000 citizens filed a request for a local referendum.
City authorities rejected claiming signatures were not handwritten (no bs).
That's what you get when your "representatives" are chosen by, and answerable to, oligarchs rather than the people
>

Mind you, nobody will think that you are corrupt, too, yourselves

Sorry, fellow US Americans, if you chose a corrupt idiot for your leader, the rest of the world will think that you are idiots yourselves too

Sorry, fellow Greeks, if you chose a corrupt idiot for your leader, the rest of the world will think that you are idiots yourselves too

Supremacy From two acclaimed legal scholars, a new history of the Supreme Court that overturns our most basic assumptions about its role in our democracy, showing how it seized the power it now wields., Suprema...

Smash that pre-order button: @nikobowie.bsky.social and Daphna Renan have a new book, *Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People.*

Free public transport is a good idea for so many reasons.

Mark Tushnet (@marktushnet) Sam Moyn refers to the con law industrial complex. It deserves a history (updating my very old “project of the Harvard Forewords “). My going-in hypothesis would be that it’s now like the fossil-fuel ...

substack.com/@marktushnet...

Yes, corrupt politicians don't go to jail, they go home, as someone said.
But we don't live in such times anymore.
When democracy is fatally wounded, it can only survive if corrupt politicians go to jail en masse.
Oppositions that don't get this will remain in opposition. And incumbents out of jail

Pigs Can Fly!: The Sins Of Legal Scholars - Above the Law Sometimes scholarship isn’t scholarship.

Academic Sins: Do Pigs Fly?

(Already in need of updating given some posts and things I've seen).

abovethelaw.com/2026/03/pigs...

My rule of thumb:
The more you write the more errors you may make.
Be concise.
Think of every single word before you write it on paper

< completely unable to even grasp the political-legal situation, both domestically as well as internationally, let alone propose anything of value.

(Mainstream) legal science's gradual, but decisive, disinterest towards democracy, and the people, came with a serious cost.
Its irrelevance

As great as they are, theorists like Rawls, Habermas, or Dworkin have been (mis)understood by generations of jurists as calling for the juridification of the political.
The liberal fallacy -myth, indeed- of law protecting, even creating, democracy has currently left mainstream legal analysts >

STOP THE WAR!

STOP ISRAEL!

STOP TRUMP!

The #judiciary in #Greece are astonishingly, and embarrassingly, timid towards people of #power (any power, political, money, or otherwise).
True, any judiciary has a built-in bias in favour of powerful people.
The Greek one has it in the superlative

There was a time when constitutional theory's main concern was whether government may oblige people eat broccoli.

But then again there was a time whose Taylor Swift was called the Beatles

I posted a very short but I think sort of interesting paper on the idea of transformative constitutionalism, including reactionary tc: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

There's something deeply rotten with Greece's judiciary.

Talk to me about "institutions" saving "(il?)liberal democracy" from evil anti-institutional populists

#AuthoritarianLiberalism
#Greece

Yes, that's the real story

I'd go for Kate Bush's version any day
youtu.be/-1pMMIe4hb4?...

Quite the contrary.
The man *should* become a king.
The only way the UK government would, probably, consider abolishing monarchy

Preorder for parents (or self)

Opinion | The Plan for a Radically Different Supreme Court Is Here

Bad idea top to bottom. We need a move against juristocracy, not for better judges. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/o...

One aspect of the Epstein "saga" is about rich people from the ruling classes showing off, even bragging, they are above the law.

People from the working classes should not fall in the trap.

The rich are already criminals for being rich. Even more so when they abuse their privilege on top of that

Oh my dog

Judging from the Greek government spokesperson's colossal legal illiteracy, I genuinely believe that law schools should be granted the power to revoke law degrees

Imagine a deeply corrupt "3rd world" failed state whose coast guard is its most corrupt service, and is effectively owned by the very persons the service is supposed to monitor, ie shipowners.

Now imagine how unhinged and above the law that service would feel and act.

Pure imagination, of course

Al (as in Bundy, Gore, or Pacino) looks exactly the same as AI (as in artificial intelligence) in social media printed English.

I have no clue whatsoever why's that, and what to do with that