10 September 2025
The Logic of Domestic Military Deployments
With all the outlandish legal arguments the Trump administration has deployed in the nine months since Inauguration Day, it has been genuinely puzzling that the president hasn’t yet invoked the Insurrection Act. Previously undisclosed facts revealed during the Newsom v. Trump bench trial, however, shed light both on how the motivations for these military deployments are being internalized by the military establishment and why there is not yet demand for invoking provisions of the Insurrection Act. Continue reading >>
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13 June 2025
Troops in L.A.
This past weekend, President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum that federalized National Guard troops and deployed those troops alongside active-duty marines in response to protests against his aggressive immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles. While framed as a response to violence, the order also addresses peaceful protest. The decision to send military forces against civilians engaged in protected First Amendment activity marks a dangerous escalation, raising serious legal and constitutional concerns. Continue reading >>
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11 December 2015
“We are not in a Seminar”: Some Thoughts on the Legislative’s and Executive’s Prerogative in Determining International Law
"We are not in a seminar but in parliament": With these words the German Minister of Foreign Affairs has tried to brush aside international law arguments against the deployment of German soldiers within the fight against ISIS. To put these propositions in a nutshell: France feels that it has been attacked and this is sufficient for invoking self-defense. In any case it does not matter what international law precisely says. Both of these suggestions are more than dubious. Continue reading >>
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04 December 2015
Rechtliche Stolpersteine – eine Replik
Von einem Pflaster aus rechtlichen Stolpersteinen spricht Sophia Müller in ihrem Text, der ein Schlaglicht auf die rechtlichen Grundlagen des geplanten Einsatzes der Bundeswehr über Syrien wirft. Den ein oder anderen „Stolperstein“ enthält aber auch ihr Beitrag, sodass ein paar Worte der Entgegnung an dieser Stelle angezeigt erscheinen. Continue reading >>02 December 2015