Letters Blogatory

The Blog of International Judicial Assistance
By Ted Folkman

Month: February 2017

  • The President And The Rule Of Law

    In 1977, journalist David Frost asked Richard Nixon about his approval of a plan to use “dirty tricks” (burglaries, wiretaps, etc.) against groups opposed to him. It was clear that the plan was illegal, and in fact it was one of the acts that led to Nixon’s resignation to avoid impeachment. Here was the exchange:…

  • Judge Gorsuch On International Issues

    Here is a look at the record of Judge Neil Gorsuch, the President’s nominee for the Supreme Court, from the Letters Blogatory perspective. A quick note on methodology: I used the same super-secret search query that I use to find cases of the day to write about. So I may not have seen all of…

  • Case of the Day: Schermerhorn v. Israel

    The case of the day is Schermerhorn v. State of Israel (D.D.C. 2017). We first took a look in January 2016, and I’ve written about another case in the “Gaza flotilla lawfare” genre, Doğan v. Barak, too. David Schermerhorn were passengers on the Challenger I, a US-flagged vessel that took part in the 2010 attempt…