Rebecca Hamilton
Executive Editor at Just Security
Law Prof @AUWCL. Exec. Editor @just_security. Fellow @yaleisp. @Fulbright on climate #SIDS. Mama of 4 fab little ppl. Fmr @washpo, ICC. Proud #firstgen.
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3 weeks ago |
justsecurity.org | Rebecca Hamilton
President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14164, one of 26 he signed on the first day of his second term, did much more than reinstate federal executions. Trump directed the Attorney General to seek the death penalty in every case in which a “capital crime” is committed by an undocumented migrant. By tying the harshest punishment the state can impose to the identity of the accused, the order signals that some people—by virtue of who they are—deserve to be killed.
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1 month ago |
justsecurity.org | Rebecca Hamilton
May 3rd marks World Press Freedom Day. This year especially, press freedom is under threat in the United States from a range of directions: from hostile official rhetoric and actions to self-censorship and systemic appeasement, to just basic information overload. As the Trump administration continues to “flood the zone,” how can we assess individual developments to discern broader trends that might help us better understand what’s happening, its impact and what we can do about it?
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2 months ago |
justsecurity.org | Rebecca Hamilton |Jon Temin
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Saturday that the State Department was acting to “revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and prevent further issuance to prevent entry into the United States by South Sudanese passport holders.” The rationale for this sweeping announcement is that the Transitional Government of South Sudan is not accepting the repatriation of its citizens from the United States “in a timely manner.” For South Sudan and its citizens, the timing could...
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Mar 24, 2025 |
justsecurity.org | Rebecca Hamilton
Through the fog of norm-defying news, at least one pattern is clear: President Donald Trump is targeting three bulwarks of democracy and the rule of law: lawyers (law firms and legal service organizations), academics (universities), and journalists (independent news media). His emerging playbook is to bully some of the most privileged institutions in these fields to publicly submit to his agenda.
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Feb 6, 2025 |
justsecurity.org | Rebecca Hamilton
A free press is a pillar of democracy, just as state-controlled media is a hallmark of autocracy. That is why monitoring actions that stifle the freedom of the press is a time-tested means of tracking the health of a democratic system. As journalists themselves scramble to keep up with the firehose of executive orders that President Donald Trump has issued since returning to power on Jan.
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RT @malachybrowne: Trump is defunding the conflict monitor @HRL_YaleSPH. Its work was used in ICC indictments of Russia for war crimes. It…
If this can be done (in full view of the press, no less) to a US Senator, then how can any of us feel safe?
🚨 #BREAKING @SenAlexPadilla tries to interrupt a press conference by @DHSgov Sec @KristiNoem and he’s forcibly removed. California’s senior U.S. Senator was handcuffed and detained. Video from @AlexPadilla4CA’s staff 🚨 https://t.co/PXfszkBXxo
This is devastating. The quality of work @hrl_yaleSPH has produced is unparalleled & has rightly become an invaluable source in the pursuit of accountability for international crimes. The only winners from this news are perpetrators.
📢 It’s official: @HRL_YaleSPH shuts down on July 1 and ends its missions on tracking Ukraine’s abducted kids and genocide in Darfur without further funding. We will continue our work as long as we can, but we are running on fumes. See @CNN story from today below ⬇️.
