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Bettie Drexhage @bdrexhage.bsky.social · 2h

Frans staatsrechtblog over juridische acties die Marine Le Pen onderneemt om voor elkaar te krijgen dat ze, ondanks haar veroordeling, toch kan meedoen aan de eerstkomende presidentsverkiezingen (bestuursrechter, constitutioneel hof, Europees mensenrechtenhof)
blog.juspoliticum.com/2025/10/08/e...

Être présidentiable malgré une confirmation de la condamnation en appel ? L’entre-deux-instances dans l’affaire Marine Le Pen (1/2) Par Camille Aynès - JP blog

Reconnu coupable d’association de malfaiteurs dans l’affaire du financement lybien, Nicolas Sarkozy vient d’être condamné, entre autres, à cinq ans d’emprisonnement avec exécution provisoire. Ce séism...

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 3h

The framers therefore thought of control over spending as a central legislative authority.

ZACHARY S. PRICE explains the historical and legal background of government “shutdowns” under the U.S. Constitution:

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“Government shutdowns in the United States are at once a sign of partisan division and a testament to constitutional compliance.” Zachary S. Price

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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 4h

Zendtijd is cruciaal voor kleine partijen, maar een klimaatdebat tussen Volt en FvD? Totale onzin. 1) Nauwelijks zwevende kiezers tussen die twee. 2) Waarom debatteren met een partij die de klimaatcrisis ontkent én extreemrechts gedachtegoed verspreidt? Sterk van @laurensdassen.voltnederland.org 👏

NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 5h

Volt zegt NOS-debat af, wil niet met FvD in discussie over klimaat

Aanstaande vrijdag is het eerste NOS-lijsttrekkersdebat op NPO Radio 1 en nu komt Volt niet, vanwege het klimaatstandpunt van FvD.

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 5h

The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has adopted a groundbreaking recommendation to the organisation’s 46 member states on equal rights for intersex persons👇

🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/porta...

@coe.int #Consent #Equality #NoDiscrimination

Council of Europe adopts landmark Recommendation on equal rights for intersex persons

<p>Historic milestone calls for prohibition of non-consensual medical interventions and for full equality and non-discrimination against intersex persons across all areas of life</p>

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 18h

European rights court sides with Estonia in undercover child grooming sting www.courthousenews.com/european-rig...

European rights court sides with Estonia in undercover child grooming sting

Europe’s top human rights court upheld Estonia’s online sting against a writer who thought he was chatting with a 12-year-old girl, ruling the operation didn’t amount to entrapment and setting a new b...

www.courthousenews.com

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Bettie Drexhage @bdrexhage.bsky.social · 22h

Mei Li Vos verkozen tot nieuwe Eerste-Kamervoorzitter
www.parlement.com/nieuws/20251...

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Molly Quell @mollyquell.bsky.social · 1d

A farmer, a prison guard, and a teacher were among residents of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire to speak in a Hague courtroom Tuesday and accuse the Netherlands of not doing enough to protect them from the effects of climate change.

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Bettie Drexhage @bdrexhage.bsky.social · 1d

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Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

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Bettie Drexhage @bdrexhage.bsky.social · 1d

Europees mensenrechtenhof in zaak tegen Litouwen:

European Court of Human Rights @echr.coe.int · 1d

Former judge did not have effective legal avenue to challenge decision not to reappoint him following his term as a government minister

go.coe.int/j09Br
#ECHR #CEDH #ECHRpress

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Bettie Drexhage @bdrexhage.bsky.social · 1d

Die kop is nogal gek. Stuk gaat nl. ook en vooral over dubieuze lidstaten die niet-dubieuze parlementariërs om politieke redenen willen vervolgen (waar het EU-parlement hen tegen beschermt, als het goed is). Verder keurige en informatieve tekst hoor.

Follow the Money @ftm.nl · 1d

Wat bindt een Poolse oliebaron aan een Italiaanse activist die neonazi’s bestreed? Beiden ontliepen vervolging door de Europese politiek in te gaan. Vandaag beslist het parlement: blijft de bescherming staan of raken de politici hun get-out-of-jail-kaart kwijt? www.ftm.nl/artikelen/zo...

Zo lukt het dubieuze Brusselse politici om uit de cel te blijven

Wat heeft een Poolse oliebaron gemeen met een Italiaanse activist die het opnam tegen neonazi’s? Beiden ontsnapten aan hun aanklagers door de Europese politiek in te gaan. Brusselse politici doen vake...

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Simon Otjes @simonotjes.bsky.social · 1d

@mrooduijn.bsky.social en ik duiken vandaag in het electoraat van JA21 op @stukroodvlees.bsky.social
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Plaatjes van de electoraatjes 2025: JA21 - StukRoodVlees

Op 29 oktober zijn er verkiezingen voor de Tweede Kamer. In deze serie gaan wij aan de hand van een aantal grafieken in op de vraag wie de kiezers van de vijftien grootste partijen volgens de peilinge...

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 2d

Dr Christopher Rudge, law lecturer at the University of Sydney, says the report that Deloitte prepared for Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations contained “hallucinations” because of an initially undisclosed use of generative AI. Now the government is getting its money back.

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report

Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell's challenge to her criminal convictions:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Supreme Court rejects Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction

Maxwell was convicted for her role in recruiting and grooming girls who were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein.

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Bettie Drexhage @bdrexhage.bsky.social · 2d

Kamerbrief met aantal bijlagen: diepgaande beschouwing (minister J&V noemt het zelf zo) over toekomst boa-bestel
www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken...

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Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 2d

France: Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu (RE-RE) has resigned just weeks after his nomination and hours after announcing his government.

Les Républicains (EPP), who were nevertheless part of the government, were meeting this Monday morning, threatening to leave the coalition.

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Bettie Drexhage @bdrexhage.bsky.social · 2d

Britse Conservatieven willen de rechtsmacht van het Europese mensenrechtenhof in het VK beëindigen. Informatief stuk over een intern juridisch advies aan de partijleiding hierover.

Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 2d

The next Conservative government will take the UK out of the ECHR and repeal the Human Rights Act. Kemi Badenoch announced her decision after taking advice from Lord Wolfson of Tredegar KC, who had warned her that withdrawal would not be a “silver bullet”.

rozenberg.substack.com/p/how-uk-cou...

How UK could leave ECHR

Withdrawal would allow EU to end criminal law enforcement co-operation

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Daniël Boomsma @danielboomsma.bsky.social · 3d

Na amper 30 seconden discussie geschrapt.

Al waren die plannen natuurlijk nog slechts een beleefd knikje naar een verleden dat inmiddels zo verstoft is dat er afscheid van nemen steeds makkelijker werd.

Tragische ontworteling.

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Bettie Drexhage @bdrexhage.bsky.social · 4d

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Kamerbrief over onderzoek naar de Nederlandse Grondwet en nieuwe technologie

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s a really helpful @cnn.com video explaining what’s actually happening with emergency applications at #SCOTUS, and why they’ve become so controversial (with a cameo from me):

www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/p...

How the Supreme Court is fast-tracking Trump’s cases on its ‘shadow docket’ | CNN Politics

As President Trump continues to test precedents, the Supreme Court is seeing a high number of “shadow docket” cases. Here’s why that’s so controversial.

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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 5d

In onze blog van vandaag gaan @simonotjes.bsky.social en ik in op de achterban van de SP. Interessantste bevinding: potentiële SP-kiezers zijn op immigratie positiever dan gemiddeld. En zelfs de kernachterban is minder negatief dan soms wordt aangenomen.
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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 5d

Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and political punishment www.courthousenews.com/trump-uses-g...

Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and political punishment

The post was notable in its explicit embrace of Project 2025, a controversial policy blueprint drafted by the Heritage Foundation that Trump distanced himself from during his reelection campaign.

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 5d

House Democrats on Thursday pushed for an investigation into whether the Trump administration broke the law with messages posted on federal agency websites explicitly blaming them for the government shutdown. @benjaminweiss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/house-democr...

House Democrats accuse Trump of violating Hatch Act with government shutdown messages

The webpages of several government agencies have been updated with banners blaming Democrats and the “radical left” for the government shutdown that began this week.

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Bettie Drexhage @bdrexhage.bsky.social · 5d

Advies SER:
www.ser.nl/nl/publicati...

Arbeidsmigratie naar waarde

Arbeidsmigratie: minder waar het kan, beter waar het moet

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 5d

Even if the administration’s designation of antifa as a terrorist organization fails, “there's potentially a broad array of civil society organizations that can be caught up in this as being potentially linked to anti-fascism in some way or the other.”
— @faizapatel.bsky.social on @npr.org

Trump has designated 'antifa' a terrorist group. Here are the questions that raises

Current law provides for the designation of some groups as "foreign terrorist organizations," but no similar process exists for domestic groups.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 5d

This is quite something... 🤯

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the
Department's operational status.
Thank you.

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

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