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Martin Flaherty
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Human Rights Lawyer, Foreign Relations, Constitutional Law & History Scholar. Princeton SPIA, Columbia Law, Barnard College & Leitner Center for International Law & Justice. Author, Restoring the Global Judiciary http://press.princeton.edu/titles/13411.h… .. more

Martin S. Flaherty is a legal scholar and international human rights activist. Flaherty is a law professor in New York City and a longtime professor of international affairs at Princeton University. He has also pursued human rights advocacy with a range of organizations, including Human Rights First, the Leitner Center on International Law and Justice, the New York City Bar Association, and the UN, on human rights missions to Northern Ireland, Turkey, Hong Kong, China, Mexico, Kenya, Romania, and the United States, among others. His work focuses on the independence of lawyers and judges. .. more

Political science 72%
Economics 8%
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

As always, the best Christmas song ever written. Merry -- and Happy -- Christmas to all, and to a much much better 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jb...
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Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."

One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
"Bondi and company are sorely mistaken if they think breaking the law and giving Congress a middle finger will make the Epstein scandal go away."
The regime's new Epstein coverup will backfire
They're buying time but not fooling anyone.
www.publicnotice.co
"'If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient,' Ms. Alfonsi wrote."

{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com

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RIP Rob… still in shock.

#Pinks
#RobReiner
MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…”

Lawless.

First snow, NYC
This x 1,000,000
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
Who has made this 🤣
Kristi Noem and Tom Homan hiring the best and the brightest for their new ICE Army. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Family of Colombian man killed in illegal U.S. strike files human rights challenge
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐

www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
Family of Colombian man killed in U.S. strike files human rights challenge
In a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, the first challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats argues that the death was an extrajudicial killing.
www.npr.org

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From Ben Wittes on the US sellout of Ukraine: The Situation: On Shame www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Situation: On Shame
What is the morally serious person supposed to feel?
www.lawfaremedia.org

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Epstein survivors urge Congress to release all the files on the sex trafficker. "Let's stop keeping this a secret," survivor Jess Michaels told NBC News.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Epstein survivors urge Congress to release all the files on the sex trafficker
"Let's stop keeping this a secret," survivor Jess Michaels told NBC News.
www.nbcnews.com
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

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I find it highly ironic that the party that bemoaned the deep state and alleged the cover-up of pedophiles is now embroiled in defending the party that has the largest pedophile cover-up in American history.
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952
If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

Pleased that Linda Greenhouse has cited an amicus brief I have joined with eight other constitutional law scholars arguing that Trump's tariffs exceed his statutory and constitutional authority. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
Opinion | Tune Into the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The Justices Will Be Squirming.
www.nytimes.com

Biting deconstruction of Amy Coney Barrett's autobiography by Mark Graber: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/a...
Justice Barrett’s Campaign Biography
Amy Coney Barrett’s book, "Listening to the Law," claims the Supreme Court is above politics. Its very existence proves otherwise.
washingtonmonthly.com

Some photos from the Heptagonal Ivy League Women's and Men's Cross-Country championships this past Friday at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. Congratulations to Princeton on an impressive double victory!!

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The people of Little Village showed the nation what courage looks like: standing unarmed, united, & unafraid in the face of ICE’s tear gas & violence. They protected their neighbors, not with weapons, but with peaceful & fierce solidarity.
While we’re on the subject of Ronald Reagan.
The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”