More about the DoJ OLC memo on the legality of US strikes on alleged ‘drug boats’ theintercept.com/2025/11/14/b...

Besides the blatantly partisan abuse of DoJ - Trump ordering the DoJ to investigate Epstein’s links to Democrats raises the question what the f*** the FBI has done since 2019 if it needs to be ordered to do something now…

I would suggest everyone check their emotions when reading this article. Germany will spend TWICE of what the UK does on defense. Poland will train EVERY adult male for war. We will have massive armies in Europe. Work together, integrate. Learn from the past.

Interesting to see that Trump's "strategy" shows how out of touch he is. Bill Clinton's presidency ended 24 years ago. Larry Summers' most prominent job was what - director of the national economic council? And that was also more than a decade ago. /1 edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/p...

What is particularly striking is that this includes supervision of MSc, PhDs, co-authorship (in the sciences! Where you can have tons of authors) and would be 5-years retroactive. Who would still be eligible?

The US announced new reciprocal trade framework agreements with the four Latin American countries Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador and Guatemala. 1/2 www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

And… Phoebe Okowa has been elected to the ICJ. Congratulations!!! www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

The wonderful @oonahathaway.bsky.social does not hold back: our international legal order is at risk. And she has some proposals... www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

The UK stepping up for international law. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

The withdrawals from the ECT continue.

Tesla does not seem to care very much about the safety or life of its customers. It is quite astonishing how it rarely seems to be liable or responsible for anything. The standards of an internet company ("this is just a beta version"), but operating a car. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A very readable piece about scholars and the press. I am still not sure whether I agree fully, but I certainly agree enough to have given up on some outlets.

The UK needed and needs 10s of thousands of civil servants to manage the red tape Brexit created. Farage‘s rank incompetence might well create many more red tape jobs. And he is still unwilling to learn.

As we remember the discover of the double helix, it is worthwhile to read nature‘s article on Rosalind Franklin www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The way in which we present who buys Russian oil and gas is irritating. When Germany got its gas from Russia, we all said "Germany". Now, strangely, in statistics it is "the EU". But it is not the EU. The largest buyers are 1) Hungary, 2) Slovakia, 3) France, 4) Belgium. www.russiafossiltracker.com

The charges originally brought were so outrageous that in the end nothing stuck. Enjoy your sandwich

Yes, my friends, it's yet another day in the sandwich case.

Hint to advocacy students: if a justice explicitly states that ‘you talk so fast’ it’s time to slow down.

The tradition that governments tell contradictory stories to the court and to the public continues in the tariff case: the government argued before Scotus that the ieepa tariffs are regulatory, not revenue raising tariffs. To the public, Trump argues the opposite.

The word ‘lead’ when applied to countries has become rather meaningless in political discourse.

And the transcript is here: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

Kudos to the FT for finding someone named Noble to write this.

The Scotus hearing on the Trump tariffs is available here: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

The sandwich guy trial is… a thing to behold. Was there mustard? Onions? Was the sandwich hurt in the process? How can this be real?

The US under Trump is no longer a reliable partner - and the world needs to find solutions fast.

War Powers Law Does Not Apply to Trump’s Boat Strikes, Administration Says The stance deepened the idea that a Vietnam-era law, which says congressionally unauthorized deployments into “hostilities” must end after 60 days, does not apply to airstrike campaigns. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

fascinating - people still don’t know how tariffs work or worse - deny their own experience. Tagesschau reports about this US entrepreneur who thinks that tariffs are a good idea on paper to help Trump lower (!) prices, while in his business he passed the higher costs through tariffs on to customers

Confirmed: In the White House fact sheet on China trade deal: "China will take appropriate measures to ensure the resumption of trade from Nexperia’s facilities in China, allowing production of critical legacy chips to flow to the rest of the world."

UK laws and traditions continue to be both rigid and flexible at the same time. Until yesterday I have read numerous times that the title prince could not be removed, as that denotes the son of a queen/king. And then - just like that - it was removed by the King.

Great, so… what evidentiary value does US government disinformation have in US Court?

Musk's new AIcopedia illustrates the risks AI poses to humanity. 1) AI can halucinate. Yet he uses it to "factcheck". 2) Wikipedia was not built to have a bias (though some articles might have one). His thing is built to have a bias. Which risks to put bias over facts.

Call his bluff and challenge Trump to a public cognitive test on TV @aoc.bsky.social

The 2025 rule of law index reflects the ongoing destruction of legal systems

Many excellent amicus briefs in the Scotus tariff cases. Do they attest to the belief the system still works - or is it because no matter how small the hope scotus will do the right thing it’s still hope? Let me highlight some

If anything, it’s Trump’s action imposing an additional 10% tariff on Can that shows that his legal rational - a national emergency because of a national emergency due to a trade deficit - is wrong. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When it comes to the US, credit rating agencies are pointless. Any other country whose government has to shut down for weeks because they cannot finance it would have been downgraded. But they know that if they would do that, Trump would punish them.

I am confused now. Who is we? And where do they want to leave to?

As Trump follows a unitary approach to the executive - does that mean he now just orders the US to pay money to him?

That does not sound like a smart idea….

Two Trump appointed judges overturn the restraining order stopping Trump from sending the National Guard into Portland. The legal route to giving Trump absolute powers is through "great deference" to the judgment of Potus www.npr.org/2025/10/20/n...

La creatice di Erasmus, Sofia Corradi di Roma III, e morta. What a wonderful achievement to have created Erasmus! RIP.

Katie Lam espouses the idea of Carl Schmitt: a people needs to be homogeneous and where it isn’t that homogeneity must be created. I am at a loss how she can do that...

my hypothesis: we do not understand it properly. For many Trumpists, who regard him as a democratic leader, nay - saviour, this is ‚hilarious shitposting‘ too ridicule the left. The other Trumpists want an autocracy. The gray area in between is by design. /1

Not that anyone seems to care, but just a quick reminder that Hungary is still a member state of the ICC and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin still under indictment by the Court and Hungary still under an obligation to arrest him.

Why or why does all of this have to be so utterly cringe. Poor Keith Starmer is trying to turn invisible, but failing.

Not to be nitpicking here. But he wasn't at the Court of Justice. That is the EU's court. He was at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.

It is worthwhile pointing out that the complexity of US tariffs now also hits the average consumer who formerly might not have noticed the complexity of the rules due to a "de minimis" exception. Now packages pile-up. And will be destroyed. www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

The complexity of Trump's tariffs is what will kill exports to the US in the end. The requirements concerning steel are so burdensome, that you cannot export complex machinery. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The ideas resemble a cult rather than a serious philosophical proposition /1 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...