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John Cotter

@drjohncotter.bsky.social

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Senior Lecturer in Law at Keele University, England. Research in EU constitutional law, especially defence of democracy, and impeachment. Irishman living in Cheshire. Views are my own.

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John Lambert Cotter was an American archaeologist whose career spanned more than sixty years and included archaeological work with the Works Progress Administration, numerous posts with the National Park Service, and contributions to the development of historical archaeology in the United States. .. more

Political science 29%

Materials science 18%

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · Sep 8

Last mention of my most recent article on how - as a last resort - EU law can be (re-)-interpreted to protect the democratic legitimacy of its legislature in the face of Member State autocratisation.

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · Aug 28

My latest article ‘Democracy Manifest? Ensuring the EU Legislature’s Democratic Legitimacy
in the Face of National-Level Autocratisation’ has just been published online and open access in European Papers: www.europeanpapers.eu/en/system/fi...

www.europeanpapers.eu

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 16h

I was kind of ahead of the curve on this, if I may say so myself.

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 8d

This is what happens when you stop reading books and published articles and are exposed only to X posts by Crusader1488 and the like.

Reposted by John L. Cotter, Laurent Pech

Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 1d

🇪🇺⚖️🇵🇱 I keep thinking about this story, how the rule of law gladiator @profpech.bsky.social pushed back against the composition of a rule of law seminar organised by AFCO and, in the end, in a very Laurent Pech fashion, withdrew entirely. What kind of "bad people" do we want to talk to? 1/

Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 6d

How is the EU Parliament selecting experts to its public hearings and seminars?

AFCO first disinvited me from a public hearing on EU electoral law, and then created the conditions for @profpech.bsky.social to step back seminar thegoodlobby.eu/how-the-eu-p...

How the EU Parliament Selects its Experts? | The Good Lobby

Recent incidents involving the EU Parliament's AFCO Committee have raised questions about the instrumentalisation of parliamentary procedures.

thegoodlobby.eu

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 2d

Scraping that tacky crap off the wall will be the most therapeutic job in the world once Trump is out of office.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Just a little more gold and it will be perfect

Trump in the Oval Office of the White House with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The walls are decorated with tacky gold bullshit

https://flic.kr/p/2rE6s9j

Reposted by Timothy Snyder, Will Jennings, Christopher Wright , and 3 more Timothy Snyder, Will Jennings, Christopher Wright, Rosemary A. Joyce, John L. Cotter, Manisha Sinha

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Just a little more gold and it will be perfect

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 4d

In the David Frost biopic, the next part would be a cheesy montage in which Frost leafs through library books at night, skips stones across a canal, types frantically, stares at an ideas board, before bursting into a meeting out of breath and saying, “we need to rejoin the European Single Market.”

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4d

He's going to 'make the case for markets' despite screwing up Britain's place in a very large one, and putting up trade barriers.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers, John L. Cotter , and 1 more Will Jennings, Steve Peers, John L. Cotter, David D. Buck

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4d

He's going to 'make the case for markets' despite screwing up Britain's place in a very large one, and putting up trade barriers.

Reposted by John L. Cotter, Laurent Pech

Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 6d

How the EU Parliament Selects its Experts? | The Good Lobby

Recent incidents involving the EU Parliament's AFCO Committee have raised questions about the instrumentalisation of parliamentary procedures.

thegoodlobby.eu

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 6d

The second half was torture though. Watched it through my hands.

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 6d

FC Bayern just beat the European champions in Paris, while down to ten men for half of the game. Incredible stuff.

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 8d

It’s a fair point. It seems to be from Rogan. Longer versions are on YouTube. But yes, it is difficult to trust anything anymore.

Reposted by John L. Cotter

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 8d

Monday’s paper. @irishexaminer.bsky.social #housing #EU

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 8d

This is what happens when you stop reading books and published articles and are exposed only to X posts by Crusader1488 and the like.

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 8d

They used to warn about believing your own press; now they need to warn about believing the replies to your posts on the social media platform you bought. The man’s brain is fried.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8d

Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"

"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"

"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8d

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 8d

Pep Guardiola finally recognising Graham Taylor for the visionary he was with this beautiful Christmas tree formation.

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 9d

The people have failed Brexit; it is time to dissolve the people and elect a new one.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 9d

A Brexiter writes...

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Bill Bowring , and 7 more Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Bill Bowring, John L. Cotter, Will Lowe, Graham Dutfield, Mark Priestley, Glen O’Hara, Pauline Stafford, Tim Leunig

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 9d

A Brexiter writes...

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 10d

Obviously, you’d have to keep notifications switched on to make sure you knew which party you were in at a given moment: “oh sh*t, I’ve joined Reform again”, etc.

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 10d

Business idea: subscription app for politicians which does live comparisons of how performatively evil their party and others are being and automatically switches membership to the most evil. Would take care of correspondence, direct debits, social media posts, comms, etc. Called ‘direct defect’.

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 11d

If history had gone differently, he’d just be plain old Mr Battenberg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 11d

In my experience when someone says “no pun intended”, the pun was almost certainly intended.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 12d

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 13d

Impact is certainly a problematic idea if that impact is facilitating destructive designs like the Rwanda plan or leaving the ECHR.

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 13d

If a lot of people thought of rights as the justice they are owed, the world would be a better place.

John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 13d

That sentence sounds like Tommy Wiseau from the movie The Room fed through an AI tool drawing solely on Policy Exchange reports.

Reposted by Colin Murray, John L. Cotter

Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 13d

I'm saddened to learn that the reactionary legal project launched by Adrian Vermeule overseas has now found an official home in the UK at Surrey Law School (as if some of the stuff coming out of Oxford Law wasn't enough). Unsurprisingly, their first 'research project' is to attack the ECHR system /1

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