It’s all but certain that by 2029 Trump will have appointed 5 Supreme Court justices, and nontrivially likely that he will have appointed 7.
The Sean Brown JR is being handed down this morning. Full judgment not yet available, but Humphreys J in the High Court has ordered a FULL PUBLIC INQUIRY as the only way to fulfill the UK's right to life obligation. Hilary Benn had previously directed the family to ICRIR:
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Not convinced my musings are going to be as good as this epic poster! 🔥
But on 13th Jan, I'm looking forward to discussing with and learning from Olauluwa Oni about law, literature and (de)colonial utopias.
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
@finishedloading.bsky.social and I look at the Brown judgment from yesterday, in which the NI High Court granted mandamus compelling the holding of a public inquiry for the first time in a Troubles-related case.
Far from being radical, we think it was entirely in keeping with recent UKSC authority.
It is finally here! It only took five years and two babies... www.cambridge.org/highereducat...