Illiberalism
Gilead
Donald Trump
Coup attempt
Fig. 1. Donald Trump booking photograph by Fulton County (Georgia) Sheriff’s Office, August 24, 2023, via New York, August 25, 2023,[1] public domain.
I was assuming the Supreme Court would agree to Jack Smith’s request to expedite a hearing on Donald Trump’s immunity claim. I was wrong. It didn’t.[2]
Adam Liptak, “Colorado Ruling Knocks Trump Off Ballot: What It Means, What Happens Next,” New York Times, December 19, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/us/colorado-trump-legal-questions-supreme-court.html
Patrick Marley, “Donald Trump is barred from Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot, the state Supreme Court rules,” Washington Post, December 19, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/19/trump-off-colorado-ballot/
Nick Coltrain, “Colorado’s Trump ruling sets off political firestorm, raising legal stakes and putting state at center of debate,” Denver Post, December 20, 2023, https://www.denverpost.com/2023/12/20/donald-trump-colorado-supreme-court-ballot-ruling-political-fallout/
George T. Conway, III, “The Colorado Ruling Changed My Mind,” Atlantic, December 20, 2023, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/dont-read-the-colorado-ruling-read-the-dissents/676920/
Chris Geidner, “Colorado high court rules Trump is disqualified from being president, cannot be on ballot,” Law Dork, December 20, 2023, https://www.lawdork.com/p/colorado-high-court-rules-trump-is
Ruth Marcus, “The Supreme Court should toss the Colorado case,” Washington Post, December 20, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/20/colorado-trump-ballott-supreme-court/
Eric Tucker and Alanna Durkin Richer, “Trump’s lawyers tell Supreme Court to stay out of immunity dispute in 2020 election case for now,” Associated Press, December 20, 2023, https://apnews.com/article/trump-justice-department-jan-6-special-counsel-feb63a4ce7a807c11b523ded62a42881
Rachel Weiner, “Judge says Rudy Giuliani must pay $148 million judgment immediately,” Washington Post, December 20, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/12/20/giuliani-judgment-pay-immediately/
Craig Mauger, “Trump recorded pressuring Wayne County canvassers not to certify 2020 vote,” Detroit News, December 21, 2023, https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/21/donald-trump-recorded-pressuring-wayne-canvassers-not-to-certify-2020-vote-michigan/72004514007/
Robert Barnes and Perry Stein, “Supreme Court won’t expedite ruling on Trump’s immunity claim,” Washington Post, December 22, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/12/22/supreme-court-trump-immunity-expedition-denied/
Imperialism
Israel
Palestine
Fig. 1. The ruins of a terminal at the Gaza airport. Image by Said Khatib (Agence France-Presse) on September 9, 2018, via the Times of Israel,[3] fair use.
Summer Said, Margherita Stancati and William Mauldin, “Hamas Rejection Sours Israeli Bid to Revive Hostage Talks,” Wall Street Journal, December 20, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-offers-one-week-cease-fire-in-exchange-for-more-hostages-336ae59a
Ishaan Tharoor, “Israel is struggling to destroy Hamas, but it’s destroying Gaza,” Washington Post, December 20, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/20/israel-battlefield-gaza-defeat-hamas/
Julian Borger, “US says it is ready to support amended UN resolution aimed at boosting aid to Gaza,” Guardian, December 21, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/22/un-security-council-resolution-boosting-aid-gaza-usa-america-support
Louisa Loveluck et al., “The case of al-Shifa: Investigating the assault on Gaza’s largest hospital,” Washington Post, December 21, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/21/al-shifa-hospital-gaza-hamas-israel/
Paul Rogers, “Israel is losing the war against Hamas – but Netanyahu and his government will never admit it,” Guardian, December 21, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/21/israel-losing-war-against-hamas-netanyahu-idf
Emma Graham-Harrison and Julian Borger, “UN security council backs resolution on large-scale aid to Gaza but not ceasefire,” Guardian, December 22, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/22/un-security-council-backs-resolution-on-large-scale-aid-to-gaza-but-not-ceasefire
James Politi and Felicia Schwartz, “Biden’s troubled Gaza strategy: ‘the US looks feckless,’” Financial Times, December 22, 2023, https://www.ft.com/content/edebf6ef-155e-4aad-a41b-7e31016cad96
Robin Stein et al., “A Times Investigation Tracked Israel’s Use of One of Its Most Destructive Bombs in South Gaza,” New York Times, December 22, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-bomb-investigation.html
Adam Taylor, “More than 20,000 dead in Gaza, a historic human toll,” Washington Post, December 22, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/22/gaza-israel-war-20000-dead/
- [1]Margaret Hartmann and Nia Prater, “All the Mug Shots of Donald Trump and His Alleged Co-Conspirators,” New York, August 25, 2023, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-mug-shot-gallery.html↩
- [2]Robert Barnes and Perry Stein, “Supreme Court won’t expedite ruling on Trump’s immunity claim,” Washington Post, December 22, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/12/22/supreme-court-trump-immunity-expedition-denied/↩
- [3]Agence France-Presse and Times of Israel, “20 years after its opening, destroyed Gaza airport embodies grounded peace hopes,” Times of Israel, September 12, 2018, https://www.timesofisrael.com/20-years-after-its-opening-destroyed-gaza-airport-embodies-grounded-peace-hopes/↩