#BREAKING: Over public dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants stay of district court injunction in Alabama redistricting cases, clearing the way for Alabama to use its 2023 map.
It's me Vs Jim Allister this morning over the implications of Dillon for trans rights. There' s been a (wrong) narrowing of Art 2 by the UKSC, but on gender para 118 is key, the Annex 1 Directives should continue to have direct effect, so EU law claims remain arguable:
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Delighted to discover the Europe Explained podcast; latest episode has an Irish perspective on the ECHR, incl its role in the peace process and securing social change, with @niaolainf.bsky.social and Daniel Holder of @cajni.bsky.social among interviewees www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
With Friday strike, over 200 people killed by US military in alleged drug boat strikes.
Overwhelming consensus of experts, myself included, assess these to be murder because no armed conflict (and war crime if it were armed conflict).
200 killed also raises serious question: crime against humanity
Significant development on $1.8 billion fund:
Federal court responds favorably to motion by 35 former federal judges.
Their motion asked court reopen the case to see whether a fraud was perpetrated on the court to effectuate the "settlement."
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This is a longer version of the piece I did for the Morrigan Blog on the Dillon Decision in the UK Supreme Court focusing on the continuities in the descriptions of the Irish as violent & producing silences amongsts those not identified as 'sectarian'
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The claimants in the private school fees VAT challenge have been granted permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.
I think this is pretty surprising - the claim is substantively very weak, and it involves no novel legal points.
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In this post I explain the Supreme Court's recent decision overturning Cheshire West, what this now means for understanding what a deprivation of liberty looks like, and offer some brief comments on the reasoning and implications of the judgment
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โLeaving the ECHR would jeopardise the UKโs national security and hinder its efforts to tackle irregular migration, say a group of former justice secretaries and attorneys-general๐
๐ www.ft.com/content/b3e4... via @financialtimes.com