Government by Slush Fund

Trump produced this latest one through an unprecedented legal maneuver: suing his own government over disclosure of his tax returns, then settling the case through his former criminal defense lawyer, now Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. The legality of that settlement is now under active judicial review, even as Trump appears to be backing away from the fund after unusually strong political opposition,…Read More

Keeping the (Neoliberal) Sign in the Window: Carney at Davos

This post is part of a symposium on international law under the second Trump administration. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** The Canadian Prime Minister arrives at Davos. Not quite Nietzsche’s lantern-bearing madman running to the marketplace to announce the death of God, he nonetheless comes to shatter an illusion. He will announce that the “international…Read More