{"id":148092,"date":"2026-04-06T14:54:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/06\/trump-team-calls-iran-power-plants-legitimate-military-targets-law-prof-calls-that-theory-idiocy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:54:38","slug":"trump-team-calls-iran-power-plants-legitimate-military-targets-law-prof-calls-that-theory-idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/06\/trump-team-calls-iran-power-plants-legitimate-military-targets-law-prof-calls-that-theory-idiocy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Team Calls Iran Power Plants \u2018Legitimate Military Targets,\u2019 Law Prof Calls That Theory \u2018Idiocy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t legal analysis. It\u2019s idiocy. That would be an F on the bar exam.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Professor Ryan Goodman<\/a> of NYU Law, who serves as co-editor-in-chief of Just Security<\/a>, in comments given<\/a> on X concerning the Trump administration\u2019s apparent stance that electric plants are \u201clegitimate military targets\u201d<\/a> because their destruction could complicate Iran\u2019s development of a nuclear device due to civil unrest.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Trump Team Calls Iran Power Plants \u2018Legitimate Military Targets,\u2019 Law Prof Calls That Theory \u2018Idiocy\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t legal analysis. It\u2019s idiocy. That would be an F on the bar exam.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Professor Ryan Goodman<\/a> of NYU Law, who serves as co-editor-in-chief of Just Security<\/a>, in comments given<\/a> on X concerning the Trump administration\u2019s apparent stance that electric plants are \u201clegitimate military targets\u201d<\/a> because their destruction could complicate Iran\u2019s development of a nuclear device due to civil unrest.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. This isn\u2019t legal analysis. It\u2019s idiocy. That would be an F on the bar exam. \u2014\u00a0 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\u2019s apparent stance that electric plants are \u201clegitimate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Staci-Zaretsky-wozdnH.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}