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If Biden's DOJ had settled a lawsuit for loan forgiveness and that settlement had given the exact same remedy that was deemed a major questions doctrine violation ... wouldn't it be a major questions doctrine violation? If so, why is Trump's slush fund not a major questions doctrine violation?
If a law possibly allows a settlement with the President that provides an enormous slush fund … doesn’t that raise a Major Question? Can someone see if this raises John Roberts’ eyebrow? Maybe a persecuted Senator could bring a case and this could be raised?
I wrote this last July but it still seems relevant…
@jensiverson.bsky.social · last yr.Feedback welcome on my latest post on @opiniojuris.bsky.social 'The “Camp Zeist” Solution to the Iranian Nuclear Problem: How the Scottish Court in The Netherlands Could Be a Model for a New Deal with Iran.' opiniojuris.org/2025/07/22/t...
Perhaps in 2029 everything named after Trump can be renamed after his father, F Trump.
1/ I've taught/referenced three democracy indexes/reports over the years- from Freedom House, the V-Dem Institute, and The Economist Intelligence Unit. V-Dem just came out with its 2026 report. Like most measures of the health of democracy, it's not good news. www.v-dem.net/documents/75...
Interesting research on the limited but still existent duty to rescue after a submarine attack on a vessel under international and US law. digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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What rule follows from this? And how do Heads of Government feel about it?
Russia’s full-scale invasion began 4 years ago. It began in winter, and so this winter is the 5th. And, for civilians, the worst. Russia launches missiles and drones at energy infrastructure to force Ukrainians to endure the freezing cold. Here's how you can help snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-u...
The Long Ukrainian Winter
How You Can Help
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Hey Europe, it won't end with Greenland. Unless you push back. Stand up for yourself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusi... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusi...
"The US sanctions policy thus proves to be not only an attack on the ICC, but an attack on the law itself." KAI AMBOS on the far-reaching impact of the US sanctions against the ICC — and why the European Union must respond now. verfassungsblog.de/sanctions-us...
If fentanyl (which is approved as an analgesic by the FDA) is a WMD (because overdoses kill people) then USAID cuts are _definitely_ a WMD. I would love it if politicians took the opioid crisis seriously instead of resorting to nonsense for cheap political gain. www.cgdev.org/blog/update-...
Update on Lives Lost from USAID Cuts
In this blog, we report on an update to our earlier estimates of the potential mortality impacts of the administration’s aid cuts. A similar approach to our original estimates using financial data to ...
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opiniojuris.org/2025/12/15/w... TLDR: Russia should be pressed to commit to not expanding its territory.This should be made enforceable through Treaty Law, UNSC Res., Russian Con law, and preemptive waiver of immunity over foreign assets. Too much to ask? That illustrates the point. Feedback welcome
Why Ukraine and the International Community Should Demand that Russia Renounce Territorial Expansion
[Jens Iverson is an assistant professor of international law at Leiden University] The war in Ukraine was always about Russian aggression and the collective response to that illegal, ongoing crime…
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The Trump Administration's betrayal of people from Afghanistan is disgusting. This is what I said about what we owe back in 2024. Jus post bellum obligations of intervening states: A legal and ethical analysis of what we owe to the people of Afghanistan e-publica.pt/article/122066
Jus post bellum obligations of intervening states: A legal and ethical analysis of what we owe to the people of Afghanistan | Published in e-Publica
By Jens Iverson. Obrigações de jus post bellum dos estados intervenientes: uma análise legal e ética do que devemos ao povo do Afeganistão
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u... “Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered American diplomats in Europe and in Canada, Australia and New Zealand”… why those countries I wonder? “to press their host governments to restrict most immigration”
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
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Can someone explain to me when a "case" is a "case" at the ICC, at least according to its website? If the definition of a "case" is confirmation of charges, why is Al-Bashir a case? www.icc-cpi.int/cases?field_...
cases | International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC) investigates and, where warranted, tries individuals charged with the gravest crimes of concern to the international community: genocide, war crimes, crimes agai...
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I was interviewed, along with Mark Drumbl and Sara Ochs, by The Globe and Mail about the recent sanctions. Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/54dc6cf... If the gift link stops working: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... tldr: “The question is what friends of the court are going to do"
Canadian judge among four ICC officials sanctioned by U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls the court a ‘national security threat’ to U.S. and Israel
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Feedback welcome on my latest post on @opiniojuris.bsky.social 'The “Camp Zeist” Solution to the Iranian Nuclear Problem: How the Scottish Court in The Netherlands Could Be a Model for a New Deal with Iran.' opiniojuris.org/2025/07/22/t...
The “Camp Zeist” Solution to the Iranian Nuclear Problem: How the Scottish Court in The Netherlands Could Be a Model for a New Deal with Iran
[Jens Iverson is an assistant professor of international law at Leiden University] The Iranian Non-proliferation Problem: Where to Enrich? The main sticking point for a nuclear non-proliferation de…
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Statute of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine highpoints: Art. 23. Personal immunity for sitting HoS, HoG, MFA! Art 1: No temporal limit to jurisdiction. Art 2: RS 8 bis equivalent. Art. 4: RS 27 equivalent. Art. 11.3.c independent Defence Unit under the Registry.
CoE Search - CM
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Whoa. Spicy footnote from Justice Jackson, dissenting in the ADA case. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insuf
ficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an
unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative
task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And,
indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is
imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia
of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A method
ology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that—
and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand
the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to
achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing
judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and
not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources
of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own pref
erences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insuffi
ciently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s
its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexi
ble enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f4d76fjna5nxqsy2fu6cgmp3/bafkreicg7mx5lddzyvnoguvadwnojtm7xcu2sf34hhizuapfesk46w7kli)
This is worth translating into English for those of us whose Dutch needs work. I hadn’t heard Schabas weighed in. All about growing consensus.
Iva Vukušić@vukusiciva.bsky.social · last yr.This is also out. It's very important that the NRC did this. #Genocide #Israel #Palestine
This was written due to concern over corruption: "no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · last yr.Corruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
Not nothing, but not a final deal as it’s been sold. Reasonable for both leaders to sell it as a win. Stupid for the press to buy it.
Edwin Hayward@edwinhayward.com · last yr.There is no US trade deal. Everything that happened yesterday was performative pantomime. Nothing has been agreed for definite yet. There's a 5-page document scoping out the general shape of future negotiations. It says explicitly: "this document does not constitute a legally binding agreement"
Current US tariffs break international trade agreements. Perhaps if there was greater cultivated respect for international law in the US, Trump's open, announced in advance, flouting of it would have been more of a problem for him politically.
Gift article to get through the paywall. Listen to it if you can. Have tissues ready. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/m...
The Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write (Gift Article)
For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?
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