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[The Bedlington Terrier]

Buying goods from Occupied Palestinian Territories is horrible, international law requires all countries to ban goods and services from illegal Israeli settlements. Any chance this wine might choke you?

[sinkov]

Buying goods from Occupied Palestinian Territories is horrible, international law requires all countries to ban goods and services from illegal Israeli settlements. Any chance this wine might choke you?

I have no interest in what you call 'international law', I won't be told what to do by some arsewipe, lefty, activist judges in Strasbourg or wherever, I'll make my own mind up whose goods and services I buy, and I quite deliberately seek out Israeli products whenever and wherever I can, especially Israeli Medjool dates, the best in the world and happily readily available in UK supermarkets.

This afternoon, on my way home from my regular Flat White and Croissant in Holmes Mill, I'll be nipping into Byrnes to see what else they have available from Israel. They're usually stacked right next to the Lebanese wines, I'll have a couple of those, they are excellent as well.

[Swissclaret]

Buying goods from Occupied Palestinian Territories is horrible, international law requires all countries to ban goods and services from illegal Israeli settlements. Any chance this wine might choke you?

There is nothing in either branch of ? international law? be it Public International Law or Private International Law that requires countries to ban goods and services, as you claim.

Public International Law preserves the sovereignty of nations - so it is down the sovereign country to decide who it does or does trade with.

The Republic of Bolton may have decided not to trade with Israel but clearly the Republic of Clitheroe has decided otherwise

[sinkov]

There is nothing in either branch of ? international law? be it Public International Law or Private International Law that requires countries to ban goods and services, as you claim.

Public International Law preserves the sovereignty of nations - so it is down the sovereign country to decide who it does or does trade with.

The Republic of Bolton may have decided not to trade with Israel but clearly the Republic of Clitheroe has decided otherwise

Thank you Swiss, it's good to know there's at least one International Lawyer I can trust, but then we always obey the law in the Ribble Valley.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Thank you Swiss, it's good to know there's at least one International Lawyer I can trust, but then we always obey the law in the Ribble Valley.

Good job mon ami because if Trump was over here you would not be able to access one...

?The first thing we do, let?s kill all the lawyers.?

Donald Trump?s crusade against his opponent?s lawyers represents a new front in his war on the rule of law.

In a series of moves that seem culled from the authoritarian playbooks of Tayyip Erdoğan, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orb?n abroad, and that harken back to the dark days of McCarthyism and the second Red Scare here at home, Trump has slapped three prominent private law firms with longstanding ties to the Democratic Party with executive orders designed to impose crippling sanctions on their operations. The orders charge the law offices with ?weaponizing the judicial process? against Trump, and call for terminating their federal contracts; suspending the security clearances of at least some of their attorneys; and limiting their access to federal government buildings, presumably including courtrooms.

[sinkov]

Good job mon ami because if Trump was over here you would not be able to access one...

?The first thing we do, let?s kill all the lawyers.?

Donald Trump?s crusade against his opponent?s lawyers represents a new front in his war on the rule of law.

In a series of moves that seem culled from the authoritarian playbooks of Tayyip Erdoğan, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orb?n abroad, and that harken back to the dark days of McCarthyism and the second Red Scare here at home, Trump has slapped three prominent private law firms with longstanding ties to the Democratic Party with executive orders designed to impose crippling sanctions on their operations. The orders charge the law offices with ?weaponizing the judicial process? against Trump, and call for terminating their federal contracts; suspending the security clearances of at least some of their attorneys; and limiting their access to federal government buildings, presumably including courtrooms.

It's a war on lawfare, not the rule of law, the fact that a district judge can dictate the foreign policy of the USA is simply laughable, and is quite rightly being challenged. The Dems are facilitating the legal challenges to Trump's EOs through three particular law firms, each having as you say, 'long standing ties to the Democratic Party', so naturally a Republican government is going to withdraw their security clearance, they are not part of government, what do they need security clearance for ? I believe they've even withdraw Biden's as government has nowt to do with him any more, not that it had much to with him anyway in the last four years. Has anyone ascertained yet just who was running the USA while Biden rambled and sucked his thumb ?

[Supersub6]

It's a war on lawfare, not the rule of law, the fact that a district judge can dictate the foreign policy of the USA is simply laughable, and is quite rightly being challenged. The Dems are facilitating the legal challenges to Trump's EOs through three particular law firms, each having as you say, 'long standing ties to the Democratic Party', so naturally a Republican government is going to withdraw their security clearance, they are not part of government, what do they need security clearance for ? I believe they've even withdraw Biden's as government has nowt to do with him any more, not that it had much to with him anyway in the last four years. Has anyone ascertained yet just who was running the USA while Biden rambled and sucked his thumb ?

Probably the same lot that are manipulating Trump -----those with unbound wealth. It is the only way that Trump can survive after his bankruptcies etc.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Probably the same lot that are manipulating Trump -----those with unbound wealth. It is the only way that Trump can survive after his bankruptcies etc.

And please add outstanding criminal & civil cases.