Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

I thought this was a joke. It is not

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Photo of too many Hobbes books laid out on the floor

Reorganizing my books post-move and, uh, a friend would like to know many copies of Leviathan is too many

Quote: “The oral argument laid bare what everyone already knew: there simply is no coherent legal argument that supports the government’s reinterpretation of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause.”

A likely loss for the government in Trump v. Barbara may look like a win for equal citizenship.

ANJA BOSSOW shows why it may still be a Pyrrhic victory – and why Trump v. Barbara should be seen instead as a case study for the mechanics of constitutional erosion.

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all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Reprisals are illegal, but they are also stupid.

Is no elected official even going to move to impeach here?

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.”

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Under Art. III of the Genocide Convention not only genocide as such shall be a punishable act, but also direct and public incitement to commit genocide as well as complicity in genocide.

Here I was thinking I’d open Bluesky this morning to find some fun bashing on the USNWR law school rankings methodology

Genocide scholars often discuss how difficult it is to prove genocidal intent—the intent to destroy a group—and how rare it is to have direct evidence of that intent.

And here we are.

“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.”

Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I
and
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country.

Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

Virginia Minor

On this day in 1875, the Supreme Court rejected Virginia Minor’s argument that the right to vote is an inherent privilege of federal citizenship. Minor v. Happersett’s insistence that the Constitution “does not confer the right of suffrage upon any one” remains in force. #WeTheMen

Ahhhh yes it all makes sense now

What is outrageous about this, among many other things, is that makes relief turn on whose loved ones have the resources to hire or luck or network to get a lawyer to file for habeas. If you don't know to file or can't, even "we have no opposition" cases lead to continued detention.

The USG Art 51 letter apparently just dropped.

Among the points Brian makes below, I'll just add some domestic law points--

Thinking ahead and anticipating the consequences of your actions is woke and DEI.

Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער on X: "The Iranian regime's recent actions underscore that its aggression constitutes a direct threat not only to Israel, but to regional and international peace and security. I urge the UN Security Council to condemn Iran and immediately designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization. https://t.co/d1IZK6bQQh" / X The Iranian regime's recent actions underscore that its aggression constitutes a direct threat not only to Israel, but to regional and international peace and security. I urge the UN Security Council to condemn Iran and immediately designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization. https://t.co/d1IZK6bQQh

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.