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Martin Flaherty
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Human Rights Lawyer, Foreign Relations, Constitutional Law & History Scholar. Princeton SPIA, Columbia Law, Barnard College & Leitner Center for International Law & Justice. Author, Restoring the Global Judiciary http://press.princeton.edu/titles/13411.h… .. more

Martin S. Flaherty is a legal scholar and international human rights activist. Flaherty is a law professor in New York City and a longtime professor of international affairs at Princeton University. He has also pursued human rights advocacy with a range of organizations, including Human Rights First, the Leitner Center on International Law and Justice, the New York City Bar Association, and the UN, on human rights missions to Northern Ireland, Turkey, Hong Kong, China, Mexico, Kenya, Romania, and the United States, among others. His work focuses on the independence of lawyers and judges. .. more

Political science 72%
Economics 8%

Saddened to hear of the passing of Barbara Black. Barbara was my 1L Contracts professor, become Columbia Law's first woman Dean. We shared the same graduate history advisor, the great Edmund Morgan, and regularly got together over the succeeding decades. A wonderful teacher, scholar, and friend.

Lessons from the Post-Constitutional Order: the higher up the Federal judiciary, the more craven the deference to the Executive: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Court Removes Restrictions on ICE’s Use of Pepper Spray, for Now
www.nytimes.com

mportant op-ed by two distinguished former Federal Judges announcing principles for the preservation of the US legal profession's independence (h/t Deborah Pearlstein): www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | How the American Legal Profession Can Regain Its Dignity
www.nytimes.com

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This is insane, 25th Amendment NOW!! From the article:

Donald Trump stoked tensions with Nato allies over Greenland in a stark message to Norway’s prime minister, warning that he “no longer feels an obligation to think purely of peace” after he was snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump’s bizarre letter to Norway’s prime minister in full
Donald Trump claimed to deserve the peace prize for mediating ceasefire agreements
www.the-independent.com
This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model.

ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
“ when people accumulate mass wealth and power, they begin to believe the rules no longer apply to them, and their behavior often drifts toward domination, exploitation, cruelty, violence, and the outright most vile and abhor.”
Elite Sadists, Their Nihilist Systems, and Their Perpetual Class-Based Immunity
There are increasingly louder rumblings about what is buried in the Epstein files—what more names are in there, what behavior and crimes are documented, what networks might be exposed, and what level ...
substack.com
✅ More than 80 Members Signed On
✅ More than 20,500 letters sent to Congress

Join the growing number of Americans telling their representatives to impeach Kristi Noem:
Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America

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well yes - no one wants to encounter ICE in the US now and end up in El Salvador...
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
"Here are the demands we all need to make: Use the National Guard to protect our citizens. Arrest agents who commit crimes. Charge police, National Guard, and ICE with crimes when they commit or refuse to stop them. . . . Do it now."
cmarmitage.substack.com/p/my-first-7...
My First 72 Hours in Minneapolis and How I Got an ICE Agent to Scream “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN”
The activists on the ground are doing the work, that should give you hope.
cmarmitage.substack.com
Jesse Ventura may be radical in some of his views but he is a true patriot. I'll stand behind Ventura any day.
youtu.be/udSUbBhA8I0?...
Jesse Ventura on Minneapolis ICE shooting: 'We're a 3rd world country now'
YouTube video by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
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Obama deported 3 million illegal immigrants during his time in office and I don’t remember a single scene like this.

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Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum.

We need to dismantle DHS. We need restitution. And we need trials.
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.

She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

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She warned us during the immunity arguments. And John Roberts took the predetermined opinion for himself.
.@PabloReports: What do you make of the White House blaming the police for what happened on January 6th?

Lieu: The White House’s statement is batshit crazy.

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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

As always, the best Christmas song ever written. Merry -- and Happy -- Christmas to all, and to a much much better 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jb...
The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York (Official Video) [HD Upgrade]
YouTube video by ThePoguesOfficial
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Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."

One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
"Bondi and company are sorely mistaken if they think breaking the law and giving Congress a middle finger will make the Epstein scandal go away."
The regime's new Epstein coverup will backfire
They're buying time but not fooling anyone.
www.publicnotice.co
"'If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient,' Ms. Alfonsi wrote."

{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com

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RIP Rob… still in shock.

#Pinks
#RobReiner
MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…”

Lawless.