Successful reforms from last year’s reauthorization may sell a clean extension in 2026.

Not a good outcome—except perhaps politically.

A monthlong effort to track domestic deployments revealed a troubling lack of transparency on why and how military forces are used on U.S. soil.

At stake is whether IEEPA authorizes tariff measures and, if so, whether that delegation violates constitutional principles of nondelegation.

The Justice Department’s tacked-on charges are just for show. The larger plan is not.

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Public documents may undermine a core premise underlying the charges against James Comey.

A judge ordered grand jury minutes turned over to James Comey, as well as information from five-year-old searches of Professor Dan Richman.

A review of Aviva Guttmann, “Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad’s Assassination Campaign” (Cambridge University Press, 2025)

The Supreme Court is dead to me whatever it does.

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.

The trial ended in an acquittal. But the proceedings felt like a strange sort of performance art—highly amusing and highly menacing at the same time.

Contrary to recent assertions, federal officers do not have blanket immunity from criminal prosecutions brought by states.

State prosecutions of ICE agents may end up in federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power.

The president’s threat to resume tests is the latest erosion of a long-standing norm.