That's the "profession" debate ended. The American officer corps needs a hard reckoning.

On the bright side, there’s no armed conflict between the United States and cartels/criminal organizations, so this is not a war crime. On the downside, it’s simple murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

For your weekend, if you missed it in the holiday crush.

Two-party consent in Florida.

Is Florida a one- or two-party consent state?

An opinion so bad it belongs on the other place.

The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless

As I wrote earlier this week in @foreignpolicy.com, there is simply no non-international armed conflict between the United States and cartels/criminal organizations in Latin America—let alone with two dozen of them: foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/18/c...

This is the easy question on the current exam. I want Hertling et al to consider their performance as institutional leaders given they have left behind a military that seems too easily bent to unlawful orders and partisan wishes.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Judge Cobb takes a skeptical eye to the Executive Branch's invention of an inherent protective power based on an . . . overreading . . . of two unusual, old cases. Hear, hear.

It's not a NIAC--let alone 24 NIACs. #IHL Me in @foreignpolicy.com assessing the absence of war--and consequent absence of the legal authorities war provides--that might justify the United States' campaign of summarily executing alleged criminals in the Caribbean and Pacific:

"Do they let you do that? No papers? State to state?" "No papers. State to state."

It's not a NIAC--let alone 24 NIACs. #IHL Me in @foreignpolicy.com assessing the absence of war--and consequent absence of the legal authorities war provides--that might justify the United States' campaign of summarily executing alleged criminals in the Caribbean and Pacific:

Every legal challenge is "insurrection"; every adverse decision is "insurrection." That's no more accurate than the administration's treatment of law as a labeling exercise is correct. Can't imagine where those two trends will intersect. . . .

There it is. And as expected, overruled by OLC’s “Murder Memo.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Alternatively, why didn’t Schumer counter with a universal statutory Bivens provision?

It's not a NIAC -- there is no armed conflict between the United States and 24 cartels and criminal organizations in Latin America from me at @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/18/c...

Got to play a little role in this one . . . .

BREAKING: We won a court order to block the unlawful National Guard deployment to Memphis. Today’s ruling makes clear that no governor or president can deploy military force into our communities without legal authority, public accountability, or a genuine emergency. www.nilc.org/press/tennes...

Setting up to claim bombing Venezuela is a NIAC not an IAC

BREAKING: Today, in a win for our constitutional rights, a federal judge ruled that DHS and ICE likely violated the Fifth Amendment by denying detained immigrants’ lawful access to their attorneys.

John Yoo's Doppelgänger is back at it. The memo needs to be put on the public record, and the credentials of its authors authorizing him to practice law should be meticulously scrutinized. Yoo escaped disciplinary action entirely through political legerdemain. That shouldn't be allowed a second time

The problem here is that European countries are accurately reflecting international law; it’s the United States that appears to be rewriting (read: ignoring) it.

Two things here: 1. This is the predictable consequence to a partner force violating international law; 2. This is the sort of step that the United States could/should have done to discourage Israeli actions in Gaza that violated IHL

"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

More-or-less the same device worked okay for Archer….

The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities. Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.

The Constitution empowers Congress to enact rules for deployment of the National Guard. Not the president. The Supreme Court must reject Trump’s attempt to rewrite the Constitution and our laws.

Everybody skeeting about The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald while Back Home in Derry rings in my ears.

The U.S. military killed six people on Sunday in two more strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, without providing evidence. The strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people.

Hearing from more people after this went out. "We're all pissed. This was a lot of unnecessary stress on people and their families for nothing. And if I win the lottery tonight I absolutely will spend millions to hire people to follow these 8 Dems around for a year and make their lives miserable."

"I'm not a member of any organized political party—I'm a Democrat"

As I've said before, we'll need expertise from people who aren't even on the radar screen, like DDR experts.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from using furloughed employees’ email accounts to broadcast partisan messages about the shutdown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Populist Dems won. Moderate Dems won. We won in blue states. We won in purple states. Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.

ICYMI Had an in-depth discussion with @craigxmartin.bsky.social of the legal issues raised by the United States' lethal maritime strikes.

Well, it ain't piracy; it's murder. But otherwise this is a good @washingtonpost.com op-ed: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Significant revision of factual position from DOJ with potentially significant implications for the 9th Cir. panel's decision in Oregon v. Trump--and maybe the 9th Cir.'s decision to take (or not) the case en banc.

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With #SCOTUS set to decide whether to stay a district court’s injunction of the deployment of National Guard troops to #Chicago, these authors explain why the Court should not defer to the President on domestic deployment of the military: www.justsecurity.org/123144/supre...

Judge's order blocking National Guard deployment will remain in effect for now, but all eyes on Supreme Court From @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...