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2 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The election lawsuits in the US are in full swing. The Hotze lawsuit concerns the legality drive-through voting in the wake of covid. Curiously the lawsuit already failed in Texas state courts. Now it is in federal courts. 1/2
Which again goes to show: a rather significant number of those emphasising states rights do not care about federalism at all. They care about the end result. They only refer to states rights where it furthers their cause 2/2
The Texas Supreme Court decision is available here txcourts.gov/media/1449868/…
The federal law suit is here: courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
The documents filed in federal court are here courtlistener.com/docket/1858385…

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2 Nov
Reread this nice text on the importance of the UK in the international trade system, written by John Jackson, History, in Wolfrum/Stoll/Hestermeyer, WTO - Trade in Goods: "One person in particular must be singled out for his influence on the evolution of GATT: … /1
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30 Oct
An important reminder that concepts of democracy differ in detail (though the last sentence fails to acknowledge this). Some examples (thread)
The UK has a monarch and a House of Lords. Not viewed as democratic in some other countries. But unproblematic in the UK system.
The Swiss system is often viewed as a model for democracy because people think of referendums. Not necessarily my ideal - but preferences differ there. One element nobody outside of Switzerlands understands is the Zauberformel.
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29 Oct
An academic comment on this: journalists are trying to have a high-level generalized debate on this topic. "The NHS can benefit from competition" (US politics) versus "The NHS is not on the table" (UK politics). This has nothing to do with actual Free Trade Agreements (/1)
The reality of FTAs is detail. And that detail is complex. Intellectual property is one of the core areas of debate when it comes to access to medicines and drug pricing. And IP has been part of trade agreements since TRIPS in the WTO. (/2)
The provisions the US asks for (and generally gets) in FTAs are of the utmost relevance to the pharmaceutical industry (Trump actually in this regard arguably differed from normal US positions), but can hardly be described by sentences such as "the NHS is on / off the table".(/3)
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26 Oct
The personal politics of a US-UK FTA are seriously overestimated, the real poltics on the ground ignored. (Thread)
1) Free Trade Agreements are massively, massively about interests. POTUS and PM might like each other, that's good'n all, but that doesn't change POTUS' approach to trade. And that is America First.
That is, of course, not a description or a reading between the line approach. POTUS is absolutely explicit about it. The US expects a win. For the US. What does that mean?
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26 Oct
Apparently the US elections and Brexit combined lead to rather particular takes on the UK, alliances and foreign relations. Allow me to make three points in this regard. My main point is at the end. Bear with me (thread)
1) The UK is and remains an important country. It is a P5 nation. It is a significant economic and military power. It is an important ally. Yes,...
... some of the statements made in the Brexit context will worry partners, as decision-makers claim increasingly that UK law allows disregarding international law. They regard Brexit as special, but many of these statements are now made as describing a general UK position.
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23 Oct
A prime example of our incapacity to understand exponential growth today in @derspiegel 's live feed on the coronavirus: hospitalized patients in the State of NRW are up from 950 to 1420 within a week. (short thread)
The article continues that this is "far" from filling the capacity. 1320 ICU beds with ventilators are unfilled (the article is somewhat unclear on correlations of numbers). What is clear is that hospitalization numbers doubled twice within a month.
In light of that and of lag time - the development is deeply uncomfortable. Even if the 1320 free beds correlate to the currently only 148 patients on ventilators.
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