wow! that's so wonderful you're in the running. congratulations! and good luck!

"It is important for service members to recall in these moments that each step in a chain of orders must be legal for their orders to be legal – including whether those orders are issued under the appropriate authority." - NLG Military Law Task Force.

Americans need to get better at believing Trump when he says what he intends to do. He has repeatedly said he wants to make Canada the 51st state by destroying their economy. Luckily Canadians are listening and not sticken with the same collective denial that Americans are suffering from.

Thank you to @justsecurity.org for your ongoing work on this tracker. Very helpful.

Importantly, they are calling on state and local leaders to take steps to strengthen human rights protections. Even if a national government fails to honor its commitments under these treaties - the human rights framework can still be useful on the local and regional levels.

And now we have the first attempt at criminal charges - filed by a Louisiana (state) grand jury against a doctor in NY for sending the pills across state lines. This will test how well NY can shield her from prosecution. www.reuters.com/legal/new-yo...

The whitehouse is claiming that direct individual assistance is not being paused. But they really don't know what they have cut. They have no understanding of how these funding streams work. Many programs are funded in block grants to states to administer. So I wouldn't make any assurances.