Tess Bridgeman

Former National Security Council Dep. Legal Adviser & White House Associate Counsel. Co-Editor-in-Chief @just_security. @RCLS_NYU Sr Fellow. Former State Dept.

[Kevin Jon Heller 🇺🇸🇩🇰 @kevinjonheller]

Excellent news for the #ICC -- and for international justice.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

These are not political news cycle issues. Trump is transforming what the United States is as a country in the world into a far right, authoritarian, transactional, valueless oligarchy aligned with the world's autocracies.

[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

Need a primer on the #AlienEnemiesAct and how it might be used (or abused) in the #immigration context after yesterday's news that #Trump may soon invoke it to speed deportations?

We have you covered via @just_security's analyses by leading experts:

https://t.co/9WASguFFPP

[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

Democracy enters darkness...

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

SCOOP: Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

Maksym & Jeremy explain: "The central norm at stake here is the prohibition of the use of force."

What kind of world order will we fight for?

This is about sovereignty and independence for #Ukraine, but it's also about much more:

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[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

MUST READ: By Maksym Vishchyk & Jeremy Pizzi

3 yrs after #Russia's full-scale invasion:

- How int'l law protects #Ukraine's rights if coerced into a "peace treaty"

- Why the center has held, what would make that change now, & how that could reshape the world order

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[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

Read their brilliant essay in full via @just_security:

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https://t.co/bXmiIJSI3f

[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

About that email to federal employees asking for 5 accomplishments:

Law prof @NicholasBednar breaks it down here, including why it would be unlawful to treat non-response as a resignation 👇

https://t.co/EwBDJV6iEZ

[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

The #Pentagon Purge on Friday is deeply destabilizing and is a threat to civilian control of the #military and the rule of law more broadly.

MUST READ by @marknevitt unpacks these issues, and why some of the firings are also likely unlawful:

https://t.co/H9qkqVXZnz

[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

About that email to federal employees asking for 5 accomplishments:

Law prof @NicholasBednar breaks it down here, including why it would be unlawful to treat non-response as a resignation 👇

https://t.co/EwBDJV6iEZ

[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

Want to know how #Trump administration executive actions are faring in the courts?

Stay up to date with the Litigation Tracker we're producing at @just_security

Now up to 80 cases, including updates as cases develop:

https://t.co/WW6wGVX8Yi

[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

Labor & employment law expert Suzanne Summerlin gives a master class on our latest #WhatJustHappened podcast.

She breaks down specifics (probationary status, admin leave & more)

And asks the big picture Qs: What happens when the administrative state breaks down - by design?

[Just Security @just_security]

What protections do federal employees have and what remedies are available to them if their rights are violated?

Labor and employment expert Suzanne Summerlin joins the #podcast with @davidcaaron and @bridgewriter.

Listen 👇
https://t.co/NqmbGIcMpV

[Just Security @just_security]

What protections do federal employees have and what remedies are available to them if their rights are violated?

Labor and employment expert Suzanne Summerlin joins the #podcast with @davidcaaron and @bridgewriter.

Listen 👇
https://t.co/NqmbGIcMpV

[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

Full article here:
https://t.co/jy4XXmnHmL

[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

A must read not just for international lawyers, Prof. @EBenvenisti's latest via @just_security on the resilience of international law in the face of empire.

A sober assessment of the moment we face, and a call to action on what to do now with the long view in mind:

[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

UPDATE:

Looks like firings at NNSA may be paused for now but staff are still "in a holding pattern" and "bracing for firings" - not an acceptable way to run our national security agencies:

https://t.co/TceJyu6ru5

[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

Congress: Big problem at the National #Nuclear Security Administration

- Federal employees, probationary or not, aren't expendable
- Their knowledge is often irreplaceable
- Our national security depends on stopping the hemorrhaging now across agencies you fund & authorize

[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

https://t.co/9RKdbUYBcY

[Just Security @just_security]

Yale Law School Professor and former U.S. State Department Legal Adviser @haroldhongjukoh joins @bridgewriter and @pshah518 to discuss his recent book, 'The National Security Constitution in the 21st Century'

Listen 👇
https://t.co/iC9MeV9p9X

[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

This is not a pause. Global staff & the programs they run, established by & appropriated for by Congress, cannot simply be put back in place once yanked.

This should be understood as an unlawful attempt to abolish #USAID w/out Congress, by ensuring it can't function.

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[Tess Bridgeman @bridgewriter]

Placing all #USAID staff on admin leave is cruel to staff and harmful to U.S. interests.

It also doesn't square with the notice #Rubio sent to Congress announcing a more measured process that could have been undertaken in compliance with law.

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