Chimene Keitner
@keitnerlaw.com
International law / international relations / human rights / national security. Giving social media one more try.
This 🧵 is just the antidote I need to out descent into a police state #DCSandwichGuy
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
November 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This 🧵 is just the antidote I need to out descent into a police state #DCSandwichGuy
This thread is insane
This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ
November 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This thread is insane
This should be getting more attention but seems to have been overshadowed by the Bolton indictment
October 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This should be getting more attention but seems to have been overshadowed by the Bolton indictment
“According to Secretary of State Rubio, President Trump was given the option of conducting a maritime interdiction but instead elected to blow up the vessel to send a message.”
@bcfinucane.bsky.social @justsecurity.org breaks down the legal issues. Zero regard for human lives.
@bcfinucane.bsky.social @justsecurity.org breaks down the legal issues. Zero regard for human lives.
This strike is outright murder even if you accept all the legal arguments the Obama admin made in support of its drone strikes, which you shouldn’t. www.justsecurity.org/119982/legal...
Legal Issues Raised by a Lethal U.S. Military Attack in the Caribbean
The Trump administration’s extraordinary lethal attack on this purported smuggling vessel raises significant potential legal issues.
www.justsecurity.org
September 4, 2025 at 2:02 AM
“According to Secretary of State Rubio, President Trump was given the option of conducting a maritime interdiction but instead elected to blow up the vessel to send a message.”
@bcfinucane.bsky.social @justsecurity.org breaks down the legal issues. Zero regard for human lives.
@bcfinucane.bsky.social @justsecurity.org breaks down the legal issues. Zero regard for human lives.
As far as I can tell, not even a pretense that this strike complies with international law in any way shape or form.
How exactly are we supposed to complain when the United States is on the receiving end of such strikes by other countries? Or do we just not care anymore?
How exactly are we supposed to complain when the United States is on the receiving end of such strikes by other countries? Or do we just not care anymore?
Rubio’s tweet announcing a US military strike somewhere in the Caribbean…if I’m not mistaken, first combat action by SOUTHCOM since the Clinton administration called off the invasion of Haiti three decades ago.
September 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
As far as I can tell, not even a pretense that this strike complies with international law in any way shape or form.
How exactly are we supposed to complain when the United States is on the receiving end of such strikes by other countries? Or do we just not care anymore?
How exactly are we supposed to complain when the United States is on the receiving end of such strikes by other countries? Or do we just not care anymore?
U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
August 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
No words
US army rolling the red carpet to murderer’s plane. I will never forget this image.
August 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
No words
State acceptance matters a lot if you want the advisory opinion to be anything more than a piece of paper. A key consideration is how litigants at the state level will now seek to leverage various aspects of the ICJ opinion in domestic courts.
July 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Worth reading.
Here is the full letter Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, sent to colleagues: www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
July 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Worth reading.
Whatever happened behind the scenes, it sure feels like a bait and switch.
Among many other things this is a proliferation nightmare. The lesson learned will be never negotiate with the United States.
June 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Whatever happened behind the scenes, it sure feels like a bait and switch.
This
It's infuriating how 99% of the coverage of this new war doesn't bother to mention that it is happening because we had an agreement to limit and monitor Iran's nuclear program, which even Trump's own aides said was working, and he blew it up because it was negotiated under Obama.
The consequences of JCPOA withdrawal in graph form www.ft.com/content/193f...
June 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This
Reposted by Chimene Keitner
Important 🧵
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Important 🧵
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social has a point ...
between Elon's ransacking of the government and Palantir's government contracts I feel like there's a pretty good chance they *both* have the nuclear codes and they *both* have all our personal data
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social has a point ...
🤯
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
🤯
Worth reading both the Lawfare essay and the NYT op-ed.
May 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Worth reading both the Lawfare essay and the NYT op-ed.
For the next time you hear Marco Rubio say judges can’t hear these “foreign policy” cases … (tl;dr they can—and will)
The legal appeals of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and other noncitizens deported to El Salvador are far from simple. A scholar of international law answers a few key questions about the power that U.S. judges actually have to intervene in these wrongful deportation cases:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation case is more about individual rights than the Trump administration’s foreign policy
The Trump administration claims that judges’ orders in the cases of immigrants deported to a prison in El Salvador intrude on the president’s right to conduct foreign policy.
buff.ly
May 6, 2025 at 5:32 AM
For the next time you hear Marco Rubio say judges can’t hear these “foreign policy” cases … (tl;dr they can—and will)
Shared this with my Civ Pro students. Procedure matters.
I know others have gone into detail throughout the day, but I just want to make sure I highlight how important Judge Paula Xinis's order from today in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case is.
It is about discovery — the evidence the gov't is to turn over — but her points are sharp and the context is key.
It is about discovery — the evidence the gov't is to turn over — but her points are sharp and the context is key.
April 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Shared this with my Civ Pro students. Procedure matters.
This 👇
The whole point is to cause economic damage to universities by making international students afraid to come here... especially for cash-strapped state universities that rely upon full-tuition-paying international students to make up for decades of state funding cuts. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd
Over 650 known cases so far, and most have nothing to do with pro-Palestinian advocacy. The admin seems to be engaged in a breakneck effort to kick out every foreign student who has had even the most minor interaction with the police possible, including for TRAFFIC CITATIONS and JAYWALKING tickets.
April 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This 👇
Does Musk's hat say what I think it says ??
April 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Does Musk's hat say what I think it says ??
💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march.
They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.
They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.
April 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM