As co-editor in chief of Just Security, Tess Bridgeman ’10 brings her national security expertise back to NYU Law
When Tess Bridgeman ’10 began her job as an attorney advisor in the US Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser, she was glad that she had kept her old notes from NYU Law courses such as War, the President, and the Constitution, taught by Hiller Family Foundation Professor of Law David Golove.
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“When I began working as an attorney for the special envoy for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, I ended up drawing on my notes from David Golove’s course whether I had a question on habeas litigation, detainee treatment, or military commissions, or how international and domestic law intersect I looked back at what I had learned in that course on a daily basis.” She adds: “I could not have been better prepared by NYU [Law].”
Confessions of ex-Supreme Court Justice Rafael Solis Rafael Solis at the National Assembly during the last time he was sworn-in on the Nicaraguan Supreme Court. File photo: Carlos Herrera / Confidencial Rafael Solis at the National Assembly during the last time he was sworn-in on the Nicaraguan Supreme Court. File photo: Carlos Herrera / Confidencial
Solis is an example of what other functionaries will use as their justification when they one day ask to be pardoned
27 abril, 2021
The recent interview that Rafael Solis offered the Nicaraguan media has given rise to countless interpretations and questions. They center around his true intentions.
Speaking to the Nicaraguan press in Costa Rica, he offered extensive declarations on his past participation as a high-level public official. Could we call them confessions? As a political operator, he knows and knew first-hand the dictatorships’ wheeling’s-and-dealings. Yet he served this regime without contradictions or hesitations
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Rafael Solis: Ortega & Murillo Run the Courts and Police Supreme Court Justice Rafael Solis, second from the right. File photo: Carlos Herrera / Confidencial Supreme Court Justice Rafael Solis, second from the right. File photo: Carlos Herrera / Confidencial
Solis reveals how the presidential couple ordered the court’s guilty verdicts and the police harassment of the opposition. “These are orders from above
22 abril, 2021
Former Supreme Court Justice Rafael Solis identified Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo as directly “responsible” for the political prisoners’ guilty verdicts. The presidential couple also heads the “chain of command” for the police sieges and harassment of dozens of opposition figures. Solis spoke from Costa Rica, where he fled in 2019.
Illegal Searches and Police Abuse Mark the Third Anniversary of the April Rebellion Riot control agents were widely dispatched for the third anniversary of the April Rebellion. Photo: Nayira Valenzuela / Confidencial Riot control agents were widely dispatched for the third anniversary of the April Rebellion. Photo: Nayira Valenzuela / Confidencial
Those opposing the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo found diverse ways to protest, despite the state violence and impunity.
21 abril, 2021
Arbitrary arrests, illegal searches and the tightening of the de facto police state. These were the prevailing police responses on April 19
th, a date marking three years since the 2018 rebellion in Nicaragua.