#ruleoflaw — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ruleoflaw, aggregated by home.social.
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The US administration's push to formalize a
$100,000± H-1B visa fee bypasses federal
court rulings, signaling an illiberal shift away
from democratic checks and balances.
Claiming to "protect American workers" is a facade: no domestic wages are raised, while tech innovation, healthcare, and higher
education are crippled simply to evade the
rule of law and consolidate executive power.
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A federal judge struck down Trump’s visa-processing freeze covering 75 countries. Turns out immigration law still requires actual legal authority, not a Sharpie, a podium and vibes. #RuleOfLaw
Source: Washington Post / AP
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When Laws Become Optional: Suspicious Deaths, Colonial Legacies, and the Dignity Deficit in Nigeria by Lawson Akhigbe
The difference between the United Kingdom and Nigeria is not primarily in the letter of the law. It is in the general application and consistent enforcement of that law. This divergence reveals a deeper reality about how the Nigerian state relates to its citizens. -
The Tragedy of Victory Reviewers: Alfred Ilenre
The Tragedy of Victory is a book written by Brigadier General Alabi Isama, providing the inside knowledge and information about the separatist war in Nigeria from 1967- 1970https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/23/the-tragedy-of-victory-reviewers-alfred-ilenre/
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The EU is urged to use an obscure blocking statute to protect the ICC from Trump sanctions.
The EU has been urged to hit back at Donald Trump’s administration’s sanctions campaign against the International Criminal Court – by invoking a little-known ‘blocking statute’ that would ban companies and banks from complying with the sanctions.
#InternationalCriminalCourt #EU #ICC #InternationalLaw #RuleOfLaw #Justice #Legal #Trump #Sanctions
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An appeals court blocked DOJ subpoenas targeting NY AG Letitia James because Trump ally John Sarcone was unlawfully serving as the prosecutor. Weaponize government first, check the appointment paperwork later.
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The Inquisitor’s Gavel: Oshiomhole, MOWAA, and the High Cost of Political Spite by Lawson Akhigbe
Central to the indictment was the breathless lamentation over the demolition of the old Benin Central Hospital. Listening to the rhetoric, one would assume the facility was a pristine sanctuary of modern medicine arbitrarily flattened to make way for art. -
The admin didn't hide it — they admitted in court they cut research grants based on which states voted Harris. Documented corruption is still corruption. By @bledewitz.bsky.social
#AmericanPolitics #ConstitutionalCrisis #RuleOfLaw #Science #Accountability
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The Great Silence at JAMB’s Send-Off: When Snakes Swallow Millions and the Press Swallows Its Tongue by Lawson Akhigbe
At the recent television and press send-off for the immediate past Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, this ritual reached a high art. The man who spent a decade at the helm was rightly credited with making JAMB more technology-driven, more orderly, and less of a cash-and-carry bazaar than the one he inherited. Fair enough. Reforms happened. Remittances improved. The board stopped resembling a particularly leaky colander. One can acknowledge progress without descending into hagiography. -
The Decentralized Rifle: Can Nigeria Survive State Policing? By Lawson Akhigbe
We are told this is the silver bullet for our security paralysis. But as Nigeria stands on the precipice of altering Section 9 and dismantling Item 45 of the Exclusive Legislative List, we must ask: Are we solving a modern security crisis, or are we reawakening old ghosts that once broke the back of our democracy? -
The Alibi of Antiquity: Tinubu, Hunger, and the Diplomacy of Shrugging by Lawson Akhigbe
Nobody disputes the premise. Hunger did, in fact, predate Bola Tinubu, in the same sense that gravity predated Isaac Newton. The trouble is what the premise is being asked to do. It is not offered as background. It is offered as an alibi, the rhetorical equivalent of a defendant telling the court that crime existed before he was born, and therefore he cannot reasonably be expected to account for the burglary. The doctrine of necessity has been stretched to cover many things in Nigerian constitutional history; this may be the first time it has been invoked to cover a grocery bill. -
MN filed suit against TX Gov Abbott to compel extradition of #ICE officer charged in connection w #shooting #deaths #murder #DHS of 2 US #citizens in #Minneapolis. Abbott said flatly he has no intention of complying w #Minnesota' extradition requests —sitting governor openly defying another state's #legal process to protect a federal agent charged with #killing #American citizens. This is what nullification looks like in 2026: #law #courts #justice #democracy #ruleoflaw https://www.huffpost.com/entry/minnesota-immigration-enforcement-minnesota-texas-extradition-ice-officer_n_6a84ff92e4b0ca44601a0bf5
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Hey @europarl_en We asked for the names of officials covering up institutional racism, and you replied from a cowardly "DoNotReply" ghost box, trembling so hard you couldn't even drop a full name! 😂
The master dossier with names, titles, and unanswering institutions is permanently live and decentralized. Tick-tock, bureaucratic ghosts! 🕒🔥
🔗 https://teletype.in/@ml1426_le/LIjqOqgQ4At
#EU #Transparency #Accountability #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw #Germany #InstitutionalRacism #MastodonLaw #EliteHypocrisy
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The Invisible Invasion: Britain’s Immigration Panic and the Arithmetic It Cannot Face By Lawson Akhigbe
Black people account for roughly four percent of the population of England and Wales. More of them are in the EastEnders cast than are arriving on the asylum route in any given year. Yet Britain has contrived to make this the defining political question of the age. We should talk about that. -
The People Did Vote for Mass Immigration – Through Parliament by Lawson Akhigbe
One of the most persistent slogans of Britain’s political far right is the claim that “the people did not vote for mass immigration.” It is a phrase repeated endlessly in television studios, social media posts, and political rallies. It sounds persuasive. It sounds democratic. It is also fundamentally wrong. -
The Netherlands slams US sanctions on top ICC officials.
The Dutch foreign minister expressed support for the court’s president and demanded that international tribunals “be able to freely carry out their mandates.”
Earlier in the day, Washington had upped the ante in its campaign against the international tribunal by sanctioning ICC President Tomoko Akane and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye.
#ICC #Netherlands #Courts #Genocide #RuleOfLaw #War #Sanctions