Mastodawn

You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, that's true!

There's just one problem.

The US never ratified that treaty.

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tkissing 2d ago

@theleftistlawyer "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - Frank Wilhoit

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Nina Cried Power

@tkissing @theleftistlawyer

'The responsibility of government is to protect the rights of the low from the tyranny of the high and not the property of the high from the desperation of the low'

From "Fly By Night' by Frances Hardinge