The Return of Trial by Ordeal
The principle of being guilty until proven innocent is the foundation for trial by ordeal, and its close cousin trial by combat.
Legal
SCOTUS: Twitter v Taamneh
The Supreme Court has released their decision in Twitter v. Taamneh. This decision was a unanimous decision authored by Justice Thomas with one short concurrence by Justice Jackson. In this case, Twitter was defendant and victim is plaintiff at the lower courts. The facts of this case are fairly straight forward. A terrorist committed a …
Thoughts on Ukraine, Part 5: Post-War Assessment and Rebuild
I understand the conflict is ongoing and does not have a known end date or end state conditions. But the sooner the USG, NATO, and the EU think through the dynamics of assessment, the quicker they can respond and conduct it. If they stand up coordinated assessment teams now, they can start assessing pre-conflict items, and conflict response now and gathering data.