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🇺🇸International & Constitutional Law & Leadership Professor, National Defense University 💡Strategic Advisor to Business & Government Leaders 🎤Speaker 👩🏽‍💻Columnist @forbes @bloombergopinion ❗️Personal Account
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Imagine playing a game where the other side changes the rules—then convinces others their version is legit. That’s Russian lawfare: twisting law to justify aggression, spread disinfo, & target businesses. No industry is safe. Read my latest in @JustSecurity: buff.ly/zCSMWVq

The Russian Federation uses the legal domain to maneuver for strategic advantage. Omer Duru & @jillgoldenziel.bsky.social write that using international venues to confront Russian malign efforts is key to effectively calling out illegitimate Russian activities. www.justsecurity.org/108588/count...

Check out my latest @justsecurity.org!

Russia is trying to shape how you view the world. Are you going to let them? From claiming Arctic waters to justifying invasions, Russia manipulates legal norms to advance its agenda. They pass self-serving laws and distort international rules. Read my latest in @JustSecurity

I’m on deadline for an article and exposing just how bad ChatGPT really is at both research and facts. Do not trust it. It proposed I cite a “Russian Law Review” (which doesn’t exist) article on the legality of humanitarian intervention in Georgia and Ukraine. Now that’s hallucination!!

Great leaders don't miss great opportunities to go to great heights. You don’t want to miss out on this one.

Here’s how a single ship can cut off an entire country from the Internet–and get away with it. Authorities have detained a Chinese ship suspected of cutting undersea cables connecting Taiwan to the world.

Your business depends on undersea cables. Russia and China know that. Six cables cut. Billions in economic risk. No real consequences. 🔎 My latest Forbes column explains: https://buff.ly/4hJiyAs #lawsky

Forget mind games by corporate moguls—Russia and China are taking severance to a new level. Six submarine cables in the Baltic Sea and Taiwan Strait have been severed since November . . . www.forbes.com/sites/jillgo...

‼️ China is threatening free speech by Americans–Inside the U.S. ‼️ Yesterday, @NYTimes featured my Congressional testimony in its exposé on these alarming threats. 🔗 Read the Article here: https://buff.ly/41ePA5i

An executive order that lacks a constitutional or statutory basis -- or, worse, is directly contrary to the Constitution or a valid statute -- is not law, and that's the reason so many of these EOs are invalid. Saying a *valid* EO is not "law" is not how I'd put things, though vocabularies vary.

Leading in crisis is hard. Leading when the rules are changing is even harder. If you care about global threats, leadership in uncertain times, and strategy that actually works, you don’t want to miss my new newsletter. Subscribe here: https://buff.ly/3NebbUF #leadership

What an honor to be across campus at the National War College, lecturing on Lawfare. The students also read (and they really did read it!) my 2021 Cornell Law Review article on the topic, "Law as a Battlefield: The US, China, and Global Escalation of Lawfare." Such great students. Such a joy.

I must have this comic book: www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Do not obey in advance

This sign is on the gym door at a local middle school. I’m sure it makes sense to the denizen tweens. But I’m pondering the metaphor. @jwsc03.bsky.social any ideas?

For ad law folks - among the dozens of EOs issued there’s also one formalizing the structure of what has so far been known as DOGE. It’s going to be an office within the EEOP, not a full fledged agency, with broad access to agency infrastructure. One implication: administrator needn’t be confirmed.

So who's keeping a list of executive orders and which ones are open to legal challenge and/or illegal?

TikTok's dance moves with Trump are the worst yet. Read my latest @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/jillgo...

Periodic reminder that a thing can be wildly unconstitutional/unlawful even if SCOTUS can’t or won’t do anything about it. Many such cases!

An executive order cannot supersede a statute. Congress has found ByteDance a danger to national security and SCOTUS has upheld it. Trump’s job as of noon tomorrow is to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” That means enforcing the ban until ByteDance sells TikTok.

You posted this on the wrong app—people here can read and have, you know, memory.

Orwell’s somewhere face palming

I'm told TikTok's host (Oracle) and CDN (Akamai) brought it back online today because Trump assured them they'd not be subject to penalties - something he can't entirely promise. Whatever one's feelings on the ban's merit, they're defying federal law based on a not-yet-president's word. Huge gamble

Madness

Apparently TikTok needs to hear this: Trump is not the President yet.

Heads of major media outlets bowing to the will of the supreme leader and deciding to cooperate with him without a shot being fired . . . what does this remind you of?

Middle Age was always sexy. Hollywood is just starting to pay actresses for it now. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/m...

Could someone have hammered this home to voters BEFORE the election?