The “Courtroom Drama” Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, News, Government, Politics, Middleeast

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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This week, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett to discuss the week’s big national security and courtroom news, including:

“Ergo Omnes.” South Africa has brought Israel to the International Court of Justice for actions relating to its military campaign in Gaza, based on a novel legal theory that alleges Israeli violations of the Genocide Convention and asserts standing by virtue of the universal obligation to prevent genocide. What practical impact is this litigation likely to have? And what does it mean as a precedent for the international community?
“Cert(ain Doom) Petition.” The Supreme Court has officially taken up former President Trump’s appeal of a Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying him from the 2024 ballot there on the grounds that he is ineligible to hold office. While some have welcomed the chance to nationalize Colorado’s holding, others have warned that doing so would be a grave blow to popular democracy. How might the matter play out? And what will it mean for the 2024 election and after?
“Void Austin.” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spent several days in the hospital earlier this month—without notifying the White House, leaving what some believe was a gaping hole at the highest level of the U.S. military chain of command. How big a problem was this? What steps should be taken in response?

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0:10.2	Celsius.
0:11.3	10 UK winners are guaranteed to be millionaires this Friday.
0:14.6	New or millions from the National Lottery.
0:16.3	Play on our game.
0:17.2	Cal terms and procedures are playing.
0:18.8	There must be 18 or other.
0:19.8	So the fact we're recording remotely I assume means that we've all been washed out by the
0:26.3	torrential downpours of the last 48 hours. We're like separated by rivers.
0:31.0	I saw a couple of puddles yesterday when I was walking my dog and I almost panicked. There was real rain. It was a lot of rain.
0:38.0	Yeah, I am currently well south of DC and there was like some serious rain and flooding over here. It was no joke.
0:47.0	This was the sort of weather where in my old neighborhood we would come back and find like our under stair area flooded and all our Amazon packages just
0:54.9	floating in like a foot of water that we then have to like get a pool skimmer to
0:59.1	pull out that we bought just for this purpose to pull out of the puddle of water and try and salvage.
1:05.1	So you know it's a real thing.
1:06.6	Parts of these still a swamp, you know, the water level is never too far away here in Washington
1:10.4	D.C. so it catches up with us in circumstances like this.
1:13.8	There's an interesting Washington Post piece a few weeks ago
1:16.1	mapping the floodplain.
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