#rule-of-law
12 posts tagged rule-of-law.
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Two hundred dead in a week of drug-boat strikes
The US military's Pacific drug interdiction campaign has killed over 200 people in a single week, raising questions about proportionality, legal authority, and the militarisation of counter-narcotics policy.
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Trump's slush fund and the rule-of-law test
The judicial freeze on Trump's $1.8bn 'anti-weaponization' fund exposes a constitutional crisis hiding in plain sight — the president suing himself and winning taxpayer money.
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Mexico's election annulment law: democracy's own worst enemy
Sheinbaum's constitutional amendment allowing elections to be voided for 'foreign interference' is a democratic weapon pointed at democracy itself — and Latin America has seen this before.
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Abrego García case dismissed: due process wins a round
A US federal judge dismissed the criminal indictment against Kilmar Abrego García, the Salvadoran national wrongfully deported to a notorious prison, in a significant procedural rebuke.
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The DOJ settlement and the rule-of-law ratchet
The Justice Department's $1.8bn anti-weaponisation settlement and Trump family tax-audit immunity represent not aberrations but a systematic erosion of institutional independence.
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Indicting a 94-year-old and calling it policy
The actual grand jury indictment of Raúl Castro for the 1996 plane shootdowns is legally interesting but strategically hollow — a pattern the US keeps repeating in Cuba policy.
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Adani charges dropped, and the price of access
The DOJ's decision to drop fraud charges against Gautam Adani after he hired Trump's personal lawyer reveals how rule-of-law norms are corroding under transactional diplomacy.
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Israel's death-penalty tribunal and the Eichmann temptation
The Knesset's unanimous vote for special livestreamed trials with capital punishment for October 7 attackers is historically resonant — but history's lessons about such tribunals are mixed.
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Philippines: two Duterte trials and one very crowded chamber
Sara Duterte's second impeachment and a senator's flight from ICC arrest reveal that the Philippines' institutional scaffolding is holding — just barely, and for uncertain reasons.
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Magyar's Budapest, and the limits of de-Orbánisation
Hungary's new prime minister has begun his term with apologies and dance moves. The harder part — dismantling Orbán's institutional architecture without replicating it — has not started.
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Brazil's Congress and the slow rewrite of accountability
A bill drastically cutting Bolsonaro's 27-year sentence is sold as moderation, but it lands at the seam between democratic prudence and self-protective elite bargaining.
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Indicting Raúl Castro is not a Cuba strategy
The threatened indictment of Raúl Castro and simultaneous CIA back-channel talks in Havana reveal an incoherent US Cuba policy that conflates legal symbolism with diplomatic leverage.