Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
This isn’t legal analysis. It’s idiocy. That would be an F on the bar exam.
— Professor Ryan Goodman of NYU Law, who serves as co-editor-in-chief of Just Security, in comments given on X concerning the Trump administration’s apparent stance that electric plants are “legitimate military targets” because their destruction could complicate Iran’s development of a nuclear device due to civil unrest.
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