Why did the State Dept feel the need to justify the war against Iran?
@KenMacdonaldKC and @TimOwenKC discuss this and other UK Law and Politics issues on this week’s episode of Double Jeopardy.
Listen here: https://t.co/FhDFJU6zJi
With senior US officials briefing Congress on Tuesday about Iran war plans.
I teamed up with Tess Bridgeman and @K8brannen for these Top Questions the Trump Administration Needs to Answer on War with Iran
Also plenty of questions for journalists (and the public) here.
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Listen to our @RCLS_NYU senior fellow @becingber
lay out the stakes & explain the law re US actions in Venezuela. With our faculty co-director @AWeissmann_
& Mary McCord on their Main Justice podcast:
https://t.co/9A3cPyFeMA
I believe folks know the important work we're doing at Just Security, especially in these challenging times.
But we made this short video as a reminder!
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The latest addition to @just_security's collection: Timely new explainer by our senior fellow @becingber and Jessica Thibodeau on the background and significance of the 60-day clock that will expire on Monday 11/3:
https://t.co/gpCrHnvuOc
NEWS:
In a rare move to exert public pressure, Senate Armed Services leaders Wicker and Reed release a joint statement and past letters asking @SecWar for orders, legal rationale and designated terror org lists related to operations against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers.
President Trump today: “We knocked off, actually, three boats, not two, but you saw two.”
Podcast discussion about this new policy by top experts
@bridgewriter Brian Finucane and @becingber
https://t.co/cfRjyBpwAj
Cardozo Law’s Rebecca Ingber joins the Just Security podcast to unpack the U.S.’s unprecedented strike on a suspected narcotics vessel that killed 11.
Who authorized it? Why the military? And what accountability might follow?
Watch here: https://t.co/yvRwAx1KnW
#CardozoLaw
“When they come by land we’re going to be stopping them the same way we stopped the boats.”
The President of the United States threatening to use force on another state’s territory to summarily execute people of suspected crimes.
NEW EPISODE ALERT: https://t.co/RPpSFPY27q
Thanks to all our special guests: Rebecca Ingber, Elie Honig, Christi Campbell, Thomas Field, Amanda Vinicky and David Milroy.
It's the “Trump Ruined My Dinner” Edition!
On Rational Security, @S_R_Anders, Benjamin Wittes, @nkorpett, and @becingber to talk through the week’s big national security news, including Russian armed drones entering Polish airspace, the legality of the Trump admin's strike on a Venezuelan boat alleged to be smuggling narcotics, and more.