Andras Csontos
@andrascsontos.bsky.social
LLM Maastricht '25, BA Sciences Po Paris & LSE Law. Democracy & RoL jurisprudence in CCL & IHRL. Anti-auth'n coalition politics in polisci.
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ICYMI: My piece on Quebec's provincial constitution bill's problems in The Line.
Leonid Sirota: Quebec's constitutional plan is rushed and careless
Bill 1 is fatally flawed in terms of its content and its compatibility both with the Constitution of Canada and sound legal principle.
www.readtheline.ca
October 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
ICYMI: My piece on Quebec's provincial constitution bill's problems in The Line.
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EU Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi faces allegations of involvement in espionage by Hungary against the European Union.
ALBERTO ALEMANNO (@alemanno.bsky.social) explains why the Várhelyi Affair is a test of institutional self-defence – and how the EU can respond.
verfassungsblog.de/varhelyi-com...
ALBERTO ALEMANNO (@alemanno.bsky.social) explains why the Várhelyi Affair is a test of institutional self-defence – and how the EU can respond.
verfassungsblog.de/varhelyi-com...
October 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
EU Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi faces allegations of involvement in espionage by Hungary against the European Union.
ALBERTO ALEMANNO (@alemanno.bsky.social) explains why the Várhelyi Affair is a test of institutional self-defence – and how the EU can respond.
verfassungsblog.de/varhelyi-com...
ALBERTO ALEMANNO (@alemanno.bsky.social) explains why the Várhelyi Affair is a test of institutional self-defence – and how the EU can respond.
verfassungsblog.de/varhelyi-com...
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need Sunday reading? explore what's on the ballot next month!
I put together the 180+ key races you should know about, across 32 states.
so explore, & find the ones that interest you the most, here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
and let me highlight three under-radar races, in 🧵 below. ⬇️
I put together the 180+ key races you should know about, across 32 states.
so explore, & find the ones that interest you the most, here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
and let me highlight three under-radar races, in 🧵 below. ⬇️
October 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
need Sunday reading? explore what's on the ballot next month!
I put together the 180+ key races you should know about, across 32 states.
so explore, & find the ones that interest you the most, here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
and let me highlight three under-radar races, in 🧵 below. ⬇️
I put together the 180+ key races you should know about, across 32 states.
so explore, & find the ones that interest you the most, here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
and let me highlight three under-radar races, in 🧵 below. ⬇️
Bill 1 would establish a quasi-juridical Conseil constitutionnel (CC) tasked w/ giving advisory opinions (1) interpreting the proposed QC Const'n, (2) on federal actions' impact on QC. 1st of many glaring flaws: the rules on appointments, removals & conditions don't guarantee the CC's independence.🧵
The draft Constitution is Part I of a larger package (Bill 1, Loi constitutionnelle de 2025 sur le Québec) including further significant proposals: a Quebec Constitutional Autonomy Act (Part II), a Constitutional Council Act (Part III), textual amendments, likely ultra vires, to the federal
The text of the CAQ govt's draft constitution for Quebec has been published:
www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/travaux-p...
www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/travaux-p...
October 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Bill 1 would establish a quasi-juridical Conseil constitutionnel (CC) tasked w/ giving advisory opinions (1) interpreting the proposed QC Const'n, (2) on federal actions' impact on QC. 1st of many glaring flaws: the rules on appointments, removals & conditions don't guarantee the CC's independence.🧵
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Quebec's new 'Constitution Bill' doubles down on the absurd idea that a province can directly amend the national constitution. It purports to directly change the text of provisions of the Constitution Act, 1867, and repeal others.
Uhh, what is this unconstitutional horseshit?
"The constitution bill would also have the Quebec premier recommend who should be appointed the province's lieutenant-governor. ...
The new legislation would also rename the lieutenant-governor the "officer of Quebec.""
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"The constitution bill would also have the Quebec premier recommend who should be appointed the province's lieutenant-governor. ...
The new legislation would also rename the lieutenant-governor the "officer of Quebec.""
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Quebec tables draft constitution to affirm its 'distinct national character,' premier says | CBC News
The constitution, filed at the National Assembly on Thursday and lambasted by opposition parties as a piece of political theatre filed without proper consultation, includes language asserting Quebec’s...
www.cbc.ca
October 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Quebec's new 'Constitution Bill' doubles down on the absurd idea that a province can directly amend the national constitution. It purports to directly change the text of provisions of the Constitution Act, 1867, and repeal others.
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But if you are looking for a serious study of what a Quebec constitution could do and what constraints — legal, political, and principled — apply to provincial constitution-making, check out @richardalbert.bsky.social's and my edited book: www.mqup.ca/a-written-co...
A Written Constitution for Quebec? | McGill-Queen’s University Press
McGill-Queen’s University Press
www.mqup.ca
October 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
But if you are looking for a serious study of what a Quebec constitution could do and what constraints — legal, political, and principled — apply to provincial constitution-making, check out @richardalbert.bsky.social's and my edited book: www.mqup.ca/a-written-co...
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The main thing to know about this constitutional wankery is that the party engaged in it is currently projected to win zero seats at an election due to take place a year from now.
The so-called '#Quebec #Constitution' bill claims to amend Constitution Act 1867. Quebec premier proposes who sits in Senate and Supreme Court. Replace Lt. Governor with 'officer of Quebec' appointed by premier. Text of #Bill1 40pages t.co/k6MeIWuvpa #cdnpoli
October 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The main thing to know about this constitutional wankery is that the party engaged in it is currently projected to win zero seats at an election due to take place a year from now.
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Nouveau billet: le Projet de loi 1, avec sa Constitution du Québec, est un monument d'incohérence incompatible avec le cadre constitutionnel dans lequel il a la prétention de s'inscrire.
Ceci n’est pas une constitution
Le projet de constitution québécoise n’est pas sérieux
doubleaspect.blog
October 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Nouveau billet: le Projet de loi 1, avec sa Constitution du Québec, est un monument d'incohérence incompatible avec le cadre constitutionnel dans lequel il a la prétention de s'inscrire.
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New post (en français): Quebec's Bill 1 and its proposed provincial constitution is epically incoherent and incompatible with the Canadian constitutional framework into which it purports to fit.
Ceci n’est pas une constitution
Le projet de constitution québécoise n’est pas sérieux
doubleaspect.blog
October 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
New post (en français): Quebec's Bill 1 and its proposed provincial constitution is epically incoherent and incompatible with the Canadian constitutional framework into which it purports to fit.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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New from Free Movement: Afghan judge succeeds in High Court challenge to refusal of resettlement | Sonia Lenegan freemovement.org.uk/afghan-judge...
Afghan judge succeeds in High Court challenge to refusal of resettlement - Free Movement
A judge from Afghanistan has successfully challenged a refusal to bring him to the UK under the Afghan Assistance and Relocations Programme, meaning that the
freemovement.org.uk
October 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
New from Free Movement: Afghan judge succeeds in High Court challenge to refusal of resettlement | Sonia Lenegan freemovement.org.uk/afghan-judge...
The draft Constitution is Part I of a larger package (Bill 1, Loi constitutionnelle de 2025 sur le Québec) including further significant proposals: a Quebec Constitutional Autonomy Act (Part II), a Constitutional Council Act (Part III), textual amendments, likely ultra vires, to the federal
The text of the CAQ govt's draft constitution for Quebec has been published:
www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/travaux-p...
www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/travaux-p...
Projet de loi n° 1, Loi constitutionnelle de 2025 sur le Québec - Assemblée nationale du Québec
Ouvrir
www.assnat.qc.ca
October 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The draft Constitution is Part I of a larger package (Bill 1, Loi constitutionnelle de 2025 sur le Québec) including further significant proposals: a Quebec Constitutional Autonomy Act (Part II), a Constitutional Council Act (Part III), textual amendments, likely ultra vires, to the federal
The draft proposes for QC legislature to purport to make several textual amendments to the Constitution Act, 1867 (as in Bills 96 & 4; similarly Saskatchewan First Act). @emmettmacfarlane.com has argued extremely persuasively that this is ultra vires: digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol60/i...
October 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The draft proposes for QC legislature to purport to make several textual amendments to the Constitution Act, 1867 (as in Bills 96 & 4; similarly Saskatchewan First Act). @emmettmacfarlane.com has argued extremely persuasively that this is ultra vires: digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol60/i...
The text of the CAQ govt's draft constitution for Quebec has been published:
www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/travaux-p...
www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/travaux-p...
Projet de loi n° 1, Loi constitutionnelle de 2025 sur le Québec - Assemblée nationale du Québec
Ouvrir
www.assnat.qc.ca
October 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The text of the CAQ govt's draft constitution for Quebec has been published:
www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/travaux-p...
www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/travaux-p...
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One of the most perverse ideas on the anti-trans side is that trans people are instantly affirmed and celebrated by everyone when they come out and that acceptance is driving a social contagion.
It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...
It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...
Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents
The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
One of the most perverse ideas on the anti-trans side is that trans people are instantly affirmed and celebrated by everyone when they come out and that acceptance is driving a social contagion.
It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...
It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...
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Opposition leader Kamto will stay excluded from Cameroon’s 🇨🇲 presidential elections on 12 October, held the Constitutional Council.
LAURA-STELLA ENONCHONG criticises the Council's narrow formalism and explains the repercussions for Cameroon’s fragile democracy.
verfassungsblog.de/cameroon-cou...
LAURA-STELLA ENONCHONG criticises the Council's narrow formalism and explains the repercussions for Cameroon’s fragile democracy.
verfassungsblog.de/cameroon-cou...
October 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Opposition leader Kamto will stay excluded from Cameroon’s 🇨🇲 presidential elections on 12 October, held the Constitutional Council.
LAURA-STELLA ENONCHONG criticises the Council's narrow formalism and explains the repercussions for Cameroon’s fragile democracy.
verfassungsblog.de/cameroon-cou...
LAURA-STELLA ENONCHONG criticises the Council's narrow formalism and explains the repercussions for Cameroon’s fragile democracy.
verfassungsblog.de/cameroon-cou...
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I just got to Peacehaven mosque. It’s a small place. Forensics are here, half a dozen police cars, a few ppl left bouquets of flowers
There were two ppl inside the mosque when the attackers tried to get in. They got out in time thankfully and no one was injured
There were two ppl inside the mosque when the attackers tried to get in. They got out in time thankfully and no one was injured
October 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I just got to Peacehaven mosque. It’s a small place. Forensics are here, half a dozen police cars, a few ppl left bouquets of flowers
There were two ppl inside the mosque when the attackers tried to get in. They got out in time thankfully and no one was injured
There were two ppl inside the mosque when the attackers tried to get in. They got out in time thankfully and no one was injured
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In my heart I know they don’t reflect the majority, but they are contributing to a climate of fear on our streets, universities, NHS, politics, progressive spaces etc
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who cares enough to argue with them
In my heart I know they don’t reflect the majority, but they are contributing to a climate of fear on our streets, universities, NHS, politics, progressive spaces etc
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who cares enough to argue with them
I feel slightly numb and mostly exhausted at the amount of antisemitism posting about antisemitism has triggered on my BlueSky posts
Being Jewish on social media means having to expect it, and I’d almost got desensitised it
Almost
To all the antisemites, I say: f*ck you
Being Jewish on social media means having to expect it, and I’d almost got desensitised it
Almost
To all the antisemites, I say: f*ck you
October 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Read some of the comments on the below post
In my heart I know they don’t reflect the majority, but they are contributing to a climate of fear on our streets, universities, NHS, politics, progressive spaces etc
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who cares enough to argue with them
In my heart I know they don’t reflect the majority, but they are contributing to a climate of fear on our streets, universities, NHS, politics, progressive spaces etc
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who cares enough to argue with them
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Today, I drove an hour and a half with my wife and a couple friends to pick up a neighbor who was summarily, inexplicably arrested by ICE at a check-in ten days ago and then just as inexplicably released, 100 miles from home today. It was a happy occasion, all things considered, but...
October 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Today, I drove an hour and a half with my wife and a couple friends to pick up a neighbor who was summarily, inexplicably arrested by ICE at a check-in ten days ago and then just as inexplicably released, 100 miles from home today. It was a happy occasion, all things considered, but...
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Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!
![Petitioner’s counsel has requested documentation of a judicial warrant for his arrest, any charging documents, or other authority supporting his detention. See Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 18–20. ICE has provided no response. Id. To date, ICE has not placed Petitioner in removal proceedings, charged him with violating immigration law, set bond, issued a Notice to Appear, or otherwise processed him. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 49. In Respondent’s Opposition brief, the government states “ICE intends to take further action consistent with the laws prescribed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) once Petitioner is released from medical care and it can conduct the examination as [prescribed] in 8 C.F.R § 287.3.” Opp. at 4. Neither Petitioner nor Respondents have provided the Court with information about Petitioner’s citizenship, whether he has violated any law or regulation, or any information that would suggest that Petitioner is a flight risk.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreibpqdfpwwfineikxjjncxeutbyrddhcpswh2etjfk23tbff27ajw4@jpeg)
October 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!
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A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
October 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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more will be added, but here is an overview of confirmed Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy events this year
October 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
more will be added, but here is an overview of confirmed Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy events this year
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Irish detainees from the Gaza flotilla have told their lawyers they were kicked, pushed and cable tied.
Outside the notorious Ktzi’ot prison where they are currently held, Miriam Azem told me of “aggressive treatment and violence” the detainees say they received:
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Outside the notorious Ktzi’ot prison where they are currently held, Miriam Azem told me of “aggressive treatment and violence” the detainees say they received:
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
‘Harsh treatment’: Irish aid flotilla detainees ‘kicked, cable-tied’ in Israeli custody
Volunteers trying to reach Gaza taken to notorious Ktzi’ot prison complex in Negev desert, lawyers say
www.irishtimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Irish detainees from the Gaza flotilla have told their lawyers they were kicked, pushed and cable tied.
Outside the notorious Ktzi’ot prison where they are currently held, Miriam Azem told me of “aggressive treatment and violence” the detainees say they received:
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Outside the notorious Ktzi’ot prison where they are currently held, Miriam Azem told me of “aggressive treatment and violence” the detainees say they received:
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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Awful news.
Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.
U.S. deports journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador, family says
Mario Guevara, an independent journalist, was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Awful news.