Joe Dudek
@joedudekjd.bsky.social
Maryland attorney specializing in appeals and insurance coverage.
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Kurt Lash, The Misunderstood Republican Form of Government Clause, George Mason L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026)
This is, legally, nonsense from @darrenpjones.bsky.social . The rules-based order does not depend on states waiting for a Security Counsel decision or an international court. The United States has a Counsel veto, so the Counsel cannot validly judge the United States’s conduct.
Lewis Goodall humiliates Labour's Darren Jones who is unable to criticise President Trump for breaking international law by attacking Venezuela
Humiliating, pathetic, soulless - Darren Jones, what a let down
Humiliating, pathetic, soulless - Darren Jones, what a let down
January 4, 2026 at 2:50 PM
This is, legally, nonsense from @darrenpjones.bsky.social . The rules-based order does not depend on states waiting for a Security Counsel decision or an international court. The United States has a Counsel veto, so the Counsel cannot validly judge the United States’s conduct.
I assume Anderson Cooper is just now sobering up and learning about Venezuela.
January 4, 2026 at 2:08 PM
I assume Anderson Cooper is just now sobering up and learning about Venezuela.
I just have to know which committee counsel bro decided to ask Jack Smith (who has been a prosecutor since 1994) under oath about whether dedicated MAGA lawyers are struggling to find D.C. BigLaw jobs.
January 4, 2026 at 1:24 PM
I just have to know which committee counsel bro decided to ask Jack Smith (who has been a prosecutor since 1994) under oath about whether dedicated MAGA lawyers are struggling to find D.C. BigLaw jobs.
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Jack writes--correctly--that the military abduction and extraction of Maduro "pretty clearly isn’t" legal. It plainly violates Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, which is the supreme law of the United States (per Art. VI of the Constitution) and, as I've explained elsewhere, ... [1]
January 4, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Jack writes--correctly--that the military abduction and extraction of Maduro "pretty clearly isn’t" legal. It plainly violates Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, which is the supreme law of the United States (per Art. VI of the Constitution) and, as I've explained elsewhere, ... [1]
They say “Austin’s gunman” and, you know, some people are saying “Don-stin’s gunman,” because, you know — and this is really important — law is really just the coercion of behavior through the threat of violence (very violent these people).
Watch this. Watch again.
"This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."
"This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."
January 4, 2026 at 1:35 AM
They say “Austin’s gunman” and, you know, some people are saying “Don-stin’s gunman,” because, you know — and this is really important — law is really just the coercion of behavior through the threat of violence (very violent these people).
Raffi is out here on LawTok doing the hero work. 11/10 no notes.
@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThdexFjT/
@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThdexFjT/
#lawtok #biglaw #t14lawschool #lawschool think I had 5 different point 2s but I’m not refilming this
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January 3, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Raffi is out here on LawTok doing the hero work. 11/10 no notes.
@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThdexFjT/
@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThdexFjT/
The only one who can accurately describe the situation with Venezuela is Socko.
January 3, 2026 at 11:11 PM
The only one who can accurately describe the situation with Venezuela is Socko.
40 people died last night in this coup. They were not “our troops,” but they were demonstrably in “harm’s way.”
Donald Trump’s unconstitutional military action in Venezuela is putting our troops in harm's way with no long-term strategy.
The American people deserve a President focused on making their lives more affordable.
The American people deserve a President focused on making their lives more affordable.
January 3, 2026 at 10:46 PM
40 people died last night in this coup. They were not “our troops,” but they were demonstrably in “harm’s way.”
This is what the Supreme Court should have meant when it held that §3 is not self-executing.
For nonlawyers, it’s worth noting that statements like this have—as a formal matter—important legal effects as a matter of international law. If such statements are *not* made, and in volume, future arguments that Trump’s invasion sets a legal precedent will stand on much firmer legal ground.
Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide: "International law is universal and binding for all states. The American intervention in Venezuela is not in accordance with international law."
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 PM
This is what the Supreme Court should have meant when it held that §3 is not self-executing.
Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social is the only person allowed to accept the Chotiner booking.
January 3, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social is the only person allowed to accept the Chotiner booking.
[Stephen Miller enters]
RUBIO: Sir, you can't let him in here. He'll see everything. He'll see the big board!
KENNEDY (without context): Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
RUBIO: Sir, you can't let him in here. He'll see everything. He'll see the big board!
KENNEDY (without context): Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
[Stephen Miller enters]
RUBIO: Sir, you can't let him in here. He'll see everything. He'll see the big board!
KENNEDY (without context): Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
RUBIO: Sir, you can't let him in here. He'll see everything. He'll see the big board!
KENNEDY (without context): Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
My wife notes that Nicholas Maduro’s first wife really dodged a bullet.
January 3, 2026 at 7:15 PM
My wife notes that Nicholas Maduro’s first wife really dodged a bullet.
He can't fool me. That's a scene from Dr. Strangelove.
January 3, 2026 at 7:01 PM
He can't fool me. That's a scene from Dr. Strangelove.
Well I feel better now.
January 3, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Well I feel better now.
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January 3, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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There is no plan, gang
January 3, 2026 at 4:48 PM
There is no plan, gang
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills from 2003.
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills from 2003.
The doubletake that I doubletook almost broke my neck.
January 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
The doubletake that I doubletook almost broke my neck.
A new SSRN abstract plans out an article that will explain that bombing a country and kidnapping its president is a police action, technically.
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
A new SSRN abstract plans out an article that will explain that bombing a country and kidnapping its president is a police action, technically.
Remember when we made a government that drives its power from the consent of the governed, and then the governed gave the war-making making power to our legislature? Those were the fucking days.
January 3, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Remember when we made a government that drives its power from the consent of the governed, and then the governed gave the war-making making power to our legislature? Those were the fucking days.
CBS News laid off 100 people to fund Bari Weiss’s armed-guard, private-jet tour of American cities. I was once moderately optimistic that I could keep finding valuable CBS content, but no more. John Dickerson is gone; Margaret Brennan should go. Removing CBS from the dial, sadly.
January 3, 2026 at 3:33 AM
CBS News laid off 100 people to fund Bari Weiss’s armed-guard, private-jet tour of American cities. I was once moderately optimistic that I could keep finding valuable CBS content, but no more. John Dickerson is gone; Margaret Brennan should go. Removing CBS from the dial, sadly.
Notice that she posted a fully researched book and not an SSRN abstract.
Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
January 2, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Notice that she posted a fully researched book and not an SSRN abstract.
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Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
January 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
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Totally worth watching.
January 1, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Totally worth watching.