17th March 2025
The United States federal government disregards a court order and jokes about it on social media

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In the beginning was a word, and that word was “Oopsie”.
It was a word posted on social media yesterday in the name of the President of El Salvador:

This was then re-posted by the social…

16th March 2025
Canada is unlikely to really want to join the European Union, but here is a thought-experiment anyway

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These are strange times for law and policy commentary. On one hand, there is some new thing to write about every day – almost every hour. On the other hand, most of what is…

5th March 2025
Some things are changing rather fundamentally and the way we think should perhaps change too

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There is that scene in Monty Python’s Quest for the Holy Grail where an armed knight crashes and easily wastes a wedding party.

 
And of course, this armed knight is able to cause so much damage at…

25th February 2025
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“l’histoire […] [est] après tout qu’un ramas de tracasseries qu’on fait aux morts.”
[“History […] [is] an annoying trick we play upon the dead.”]
~ Voltaire
(See here regarding the translation.)
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A war or a revolution or a riot often makes little sense to contemporaries. There is a metaphorical fog,…

23rd February 2025
A telling joke told by the president of the United States

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During the last week the president of the United States compared himself to a king.
Of course, it was intended to be a joke – not in the sense of being funny, but in the sense of saying something without…

18th February 2025

How can we make sense, from a constitutionalist perspective, of what is currently going on in the United States?
Perhaps it cannot make sense, perhaps it is senseless – and so there is nothing more to be said.
Or perhaps one day we can look back at what is happening, with glorious…

11th February 2025
Those saying that Orders of the Court can be freely defied should be careful what they wish for

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Imagine a billionaire, and imagine then their billions being somehow, unlawfully confiscated.
These unlawful confiscations could be in terms of their physical possessions being taken away; or titles to their real property…