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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 10/09/2026

Just Security and @rcls-nyu.bsky.social asked experts how 9/11 shaped their careers and continues to shape us all 25 years later. With new contributions from Nicholas Rasmussen, @bcfinucane.bsky.social, Camille Mackler, @priyankam.bsky.social, Dakota S. Rudesill:

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9/11 Then and Now: How It Shapes Us 25 Years On

How the September 11 attacks, and the U.S. response that followed, changed the world and the way we approach the moment we are in today.

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Excellent to present today at the Australian Crisis Simulation Summit (ACSS) at ANU on theory & practice of big professional skills and ethics-focused simulations. Special thx to Adm. Chris Barrie (ret), fmr Chief of the Defence Force. @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The latest politician/media opinion product is a new Red Scare. As we all make the most of this new/old craze, remember that @theonion.com broke the story that heavy petting is linked to COMMUNISM

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 02/08/2026

What is the National Guard allowed to do when operating in a hybrid status where the mission is defined by the president but the governor retains command and control? @nkorpett.bsky.social, @lizagoitein.bsky.social, Joseph Nunn, and @lorenvoss.bsky.social discuss: youtu.be/RJgl2oRjLhM

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If you stand here, the following things will fall on you: a rock, a brick, a ball, and a microphone. Pick one to catch.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 17/04/2026

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

A tweet from Representative Thomas Massie that reads:

I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs.
1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702.
2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law.
The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Great to present 2x in one day on Friday on law of US cyber attack (OCO), ethics, AI. First, Case Western Reserve U Law AI symposium. Second, Cybersecurity Law Seminar hosted by Ohio Dept of Commerce & Ohio Cyber Range Institute. Ended with usual ethics advice: lawyer job is courage & integrity.

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

After Yale Law next up presenting my research on Congress's secret law was Idaho State's annual Frank Church Symposium. Secret legislated law is an ironic result of his investigation of intelligence abuses.

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

This legislation prof can check off another Capitol: Utah. Amazing location, surrounded by mountains. Lovely neoclassical building. Sense of expansiveness and welcome. The rotunda reminds me of Wisconsin although smaller and less adorned. The beehive motifs are a symbol of hard work and community.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The US is no longer a liberal democracy, according to the top global watchdog on freedom and democracy. We're falling fast, and are now classed the same as Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Good to join @npr.org @wamu.org @the1ashow.bsky.social to talk Iran War, US Constitution, secret law. Did Trump DOJ write a legal memo trying to justify a facially illegal war -- and then classify it? If so, why? @phildstewart.bsky.social @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social the1a.org/segments/if-...

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If You Can Keep It: What Trump owes Congress

Congress has voted on a resolution to limit the president’s power to continue Operation Epic Fury.

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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

“The Constitution vests the power of declaring War with Congress, therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject, and authorised such a measure.” —George Washington to William Moultrie, 28 August 1793

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

In 2017, I collaborated with researcher at Princeton to develop an art exhibit simulating what nuclear war might look like in the present moment, called "PLAN A." For DOOMSDAY MACHINES this week, I have written up how we did it, as best as I can remember: doomsdaymachines.net/p/how-i-dest...

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How I destroyed the world

A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of "PLAN A" (2017)

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

World gets scary and I get busier -- did @newsmax.com this morning, nuke pod yesterday, and AM talk radio on why (1) Trump Iran War is a war (Speaker Johnson contrary claims are unfounded) and (2) most egregious use of force violation of US Constitution and international law in US history. Yikes.

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

So great to re-create this pic from 20 yrs ago with Bill Eskridge. Then he was my prof @yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social . Now we are colleagues in the legislation tribe that Bill leads. He is a 1st class scholar, teacher, human, and champion of the right of queer people to be equally human under law.

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Today's 6-3 Supreme Court decision striking down Trump's tariffs should have been 9-0. But it's a clear W for Constitution, rule of law, separation of powers, Congress, courts, and the public. WWWWWW. Big L for attempted autocracy. Left to litigation: how illegally taxed Americans can get $$ back.

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The Dems are demanding that ICE honor the Constitution and the Trump administration is saying that this is out of the question. Think about that. Faithfully executing the law? substack.com/home/post/p-...

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The Constitution is not a bargaining chip for a budget negotiation

The Democrats demanded that Trump's immigration cops follow the law and the Constitution. The Republicans called those demands "nonstarters."

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

What an ugly assault on First Amendment and on Congress. Thankfully, thwarted. "A group of ordinary citizens sitting on the grand jury in Federal District Court in Washington rejected the effort." Shame on DOJ. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

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Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees. "This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

For embattled, brave, resilient Minnesota, from our brilliant Minnesota artist friend Heather. 💙💙💙

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It was a pleasure to join bipartisan pod team of @robport.bsky.social and Chad Oban to talk ICE, Insurrection Act, National Guard, constitutional law, Bill of Rights, & Minnesota.

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

A remarkable speech, the likes of which most of us never imagined we'd possibly hear in our lifetimes. The Great Rupture appears to be upon us. It's shocking, and deeply distressing, that the political party controlling our Congress appears not to care at all. www.youtube.com/live/JtF630g...

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LIVE: PM Carney delivers special address at World Economic Forum

YouTube video by CTV News

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Laurie Hertzel @lhertzel.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

#KavanaughStops on steroids "Agents drove around Minneapolis and questioned people about their immigration status. ... [including] drivers who were also charging their vehicles. All of them were people of color. All of them were able to prove they were in the U.S. legally."

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Minnesota officials sue to block Trump's immigration crackdown as enforcement intensifies

More than 2,000 federal immigration agents are in Minnesota, and that number is expected to increase. On Monday, an NPR reporter witnessed multiple instances where immigration agents drove around Minn...

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

A time for choosing, from main street to wall street. "This new threat is not about my testimony last June or about the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings. It is not about Congress’s oversight role. .... Those are pretexts." Thank you, Chairman Powell.

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Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 12/01/2026

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

YouTube video by Federal Reserve

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

NEW An initially-secret report for Customs and Border Patrol in 2013 found: In many vehicle shooting cases, the “driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby … creating justification for the use of deadly force.” 🧵

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

In a few months, we've progressed from snuff films of the US military killing civilians at sea to a snuff film of paramilitary secret police killing a mom in Minnesota—in both situations bogusly invoking "terrorism."

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Renewing my regular request for quality evidence & writing contesting claims of the Trump Admin's critics: that it is using the authoritarian playbook; repressive; seeking or fostering Executive autocracy. I want good args that national majority is WRONG that Trump is operating as a dictator. Thx!

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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 23/12/2025

1/ Dakota S. Rudesill, drawing on The Steady State’s assessment as a foundational reference, argues that the second Trump administration is driving the US toward a form of executive autocracy, nationalsecurity.law.georgetown.edu/journal/2025...

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Executive Autocracy Versus Professional Ethics - Georgetown Law - Center on National Security

By Dakota S. Rudesill

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

My just-posted essay forthcoming in Bench & Bar went from part of "Trump & the law" symposium to freestanding b/c too few lawyers willing to write. Chilled speech makes my pt: civically things are objectively bad b/c of repression of critics, who are the *majority*. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Government Repression of the Public Majority: Things are Objectively Bad, 83 Bench & Bar of Minnesota __ (Jan-Feb 2026) (forthcoming)

How civically bad are things in the United States? This bar journal essay grapples with this question that is getting constant discussion and tho

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Great to be interviewed by @newsweek.com in a deep dive posted this weekend on war powers regarding Venezuela and other uses of force by Trump or any other president. Extensive quotes of @bcfinucane.bsky.social, Geoffrey Corn, and me. @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social www.newsweek.com/trumps-licen...

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Trump Admin deleted the intelligence ethics code. As I write here, this aligns with extensive evidence of attempted autocracy, which requires suspending ethics codes of intel, legal, military and other professions. @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Good to be on Fox News LiveNow this morning to discuss the forthcoming DOD Inspector General report on Sec. Hegseth's infosec violations in the SignalGate scandal.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Not on my bingo card: being on a panel on the rule of law with one of the lawyers (Jane Davidson) who helped get Britney Spears out of her conservatorship

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Minneapolis looking good tonight as I arrive in town to present at a symposium tomorrow on the rule of law. My long-planned topic: the need for courts as necessary to speak plainly to civilian and military executive branch personnel about their obligation to refuse plainly illegal orders.

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The district courtroom really is one of the last spaces left in American public life where there’s a serious possibility that a strategy built on the denial of reality just won‘t fly.

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

In new essay just I write up the theory I outlined at the Federal Bar Association in Aug: Trump Admin is trying to force an exception to professional ethics for Exec Branch service. Autocracy/ethics clash is inherent & happening 24/7 now in govt. nationalsecurity.law.georgetown.edu/journal/2025...

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Good to be on @newsmax.com talking about ambiguous Trump Administration statements on nuclear testing. @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social @mershoncenter.bsky.social

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Dakota Rudesill @dakotarudesill.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

In living memory there was a moderating, pluralistic, pro-liberty, strife-reduction civic consensus. Center-out, top to bottom. I saw it firsthand. Well articulated here at the Ohio Statehouse by WWII vet, lawyer, and OSU Law alum Rep. Bill McCulloch (R-OH). We can have it again if people want it.

"The purpose of representative government is to soften tension -- reduce strife -- while enabling groups and individuals to more nearly obtain the kind of life they wish to live."

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