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The Week That Was
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Taming the Dogs of War – U.S. Efforts to Control Proxy Forces
A review of Erica L. Gaston's “Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria” (Columbia University Press, 2024). -
MAGA's NSA Purge Will Get Messy
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare. -
Lawfare Daily: The Golden Dome Missile Defense Program
Is the Golden Dome program feasible? -
Appointments, Removal, and the Unitary Executive Empowered
President Trump’s restructuring of the administrative state is unprecedented—what does Supreme Court precedent say about its legitimacy? -
Rational Security: The "Humphrey's Executor's Executor" Edition
Scott Anderson, Benjamin Wittes, Quinta Jurecic and James Pearce talked through the week's biggest national security news stories. -
New White House AI Policies Introduce Government by AI
New AI policies shift federal strategy from government with AI to government by AI—with major stakes for the public and startups. -
What Happens When Courts Can’t Trust the Executive Branch?
In the lower courts, the presumption of regularity is in free fall—if it hasn’t crashed already. -
Lawfare Daily: What French Politics Means for Europe and the United States
Catching up with French politics. -
Mixed Signals on Alleged Alien Enemies
The Supreme Court insists on due process but offers no specifics and leaves hundreds in a Salvadoran prison with no remedy. -
Energy Dept. Instructs Employees to Gather Info on Deals with Law Firms
Emails obtained by Lawfare reveal that DOE instructed employees to gather information on business dealings between contractors and law firms. -
Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, April 11
Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation targeting actions from President Trump. -
Congress Must Protect the Role of JAGs in the Military
Congress can act to prevent a “sweeping overhaul” of the JAG Corps, which would risk violations of the laws of war. -
Lawfare Daily: Climate Security During the Trump Administration Years
Why did the Trump administration omit climate change from the Annual Threat Assessment? -
Can Congress Reverse Trump's Tariffs?
There are procedures Congress can use to reverse the President’s actions. But doing so is more complicated than it may seem. -
ChinaTalk: GreatDepressionTalk with SemiAnalysis and Asianometry
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The Tangled History of the State Secrets Privilege
Contemporary jurisprudence around the privilege has not always been careful to distinguish it from historically adjacent doctrines. -
How Will Artificial Intelligence Impact Battlefield Operations?
AI is reshaping warfare, accelerating decision-making, and impacting civilian casualties—but over-reliance poses risks and vulnerabilities. -
Lawfare Daily: Trump’s New Global Tariffs and the Court Fights to Come, with Peter Harrell and Jennifer Hillman
Discussing the IEEPA tariffs imposed by President Trump. -
The Situation: Missing
Can the government win a case by losing the plaintiff?
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SCOTUS Grants Government Partial Stay in Birthright Citizenship Case
Without addressing the constitutionality of Trump’s order, the Court rejected the validity of universal injunctions as a form of relief. -
AI and Secure Code Generation
AI is reshaping code security—shifting metrics, unknown bugs, and autonomous decisions humans may never understand.