will-smiley.bsky.social
History (Ottoman and Russian Empires) and international law.
Author, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War" (Oxford, 2018) and co-author, "To Save the Country" (Yale, 2019).
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The SCOTUS majority may agree with Stephen Miller that undocumented immigrants have no rights the federal government is obliged to respect; they just think that due process applies in proving WHO falls into that disfavored class.
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Isn't it that the people in this case had final orders of removal, whereas those grabbed under the AEA did not? The principle seems to be: process is due in deportation proceedings, but not after a final order is issued.
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“The Americans are giving the Israelis a little more time." -- Rashid Khalidi's father, when the US delayed the UNSC cease fire resolution in 1967.
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Given the posture of this case, he might as well have said, “contempt of court orders exists for that purpose.”
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It’s a funny inversion of the Saving Private Ryan/Greatest Generation/Cause Larger Than Oneself moment in the late 90s, when Americans (pretended to) yearn desperately for shared sacrifice.
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In just these two screenshots, I see Blackman forgetting a word, making a grammatical error, forgetting that the Reconstruction Amendments included the 13th, and implying that 19th century immigration law was pretty much the opposite of what it was. Way to go!
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RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER have not slowed the Iranian program nearly as much as the JCPOA. We hold diplomacy to much higher standards than bombing. The same people who endlessly complained about the JCPOA "sunsetting" are now happy to delay Iran's bomb by much less. 15/17
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Has Schumer clarified? His statement on this yesterday was pretty confusing.
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Honestly, he probably missed it unless he took Foreign Relations and National Security Law (maybe he did). I don’t think it’s in any 1L classes, anywhere? We read the Prize Cases in a seminar on Laws of War, which JD did not take. (I was one year behind JD.)
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brill.com/view/journal...
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It's also an attempt to preemptively delegitimize any Iranian retaliation, so that it's not blamed on Trump and can be cast as unprovoked aggression.
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“We’re not at war with the United States, only with the US Navy’s battleship force.” — Isoroku Yamamoto
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Obama held back in 2013 partly because he believed he did not have the authority to attack, under US or international law:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Beyond just lack of coordination, there may be an element of not wanting to speak truth to power. The official line is that Iran won't dare to hit back and it'll be over. So maybe everyone is afraid to make any contingency plans. Why bother selling the public on something that's already over with?
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It definitely does change incentives. BUT I'd be careful extrapolating from "they can't seriously retaliate against Israel" (so far true) to "they can't seriously retaliate at all," e.g. to the Gulf, which they haven't seriously tried yet. Maybe they will now.
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Violating the constitution and a statute at the same time certainly seems like "high crimes and misdemeanors!" No need to reach for "whatever it likes."
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“The Harvard officials believe that if the university remains at odds with the administration that it is likely to become far smaller and less ambitious”
Heaven forbid! So many US elites think it’s absolutely intolerable that they should sacrifice any of their ambitions for anything
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In college (Hillsdale) I took a class taught by Clarence Thomas. He did not read the final papers. A deputy in the president’s office did, and the award for a top grade was that your paper would get passed along to the Justice. I wonder if the co-prof who is a clerk did the real grading here.
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Decent odds he did not read the papers, and they were really graded by the co-professor who is a clerk.