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Trump Is Usurping Congress’s Power of the Purse
How is the Trump administration impounding congressional appropriations, and will Congress reassert its authorities? -
Scaling Laws: A Startup's Perspective on AI Policy
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Lawfare Daily: Inside the Law Letting Senators Sue Over Phone Data
Discussing the potential consequences of the law for the relationship between Congress and law enforcement. -
Federal Judge Dismisses Comey and James Indictments
Judge Currie found that interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan lacked authority to bring the indictments, rendering them invalid. -
Lawfare Live: Judge Dismisses Indictments Against James Comey and Letitia James
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AI Federalism: The Right Way to Do Preemption
The allocation of regulatory authority over AI between states and the federal government is a complex problem that can’t be resolved in a single stroke. -
Abrego v. Noem: A Hearing Diary for Nov. 20
A live-blog of testimony and argument at the hearing at which Judge Xinis weighed Abrego Garcia’s petition seeking release. -
Cyber Warfare and Its Limits: A Response to Soesanto and Gajos
International humanitarian law is not a switch that can be flipped when inconvenient, not even in offensive cyber operations. -
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Nov. 21
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The Situation: On Shame
What is the morally serious person supposed to feel? -
The Five Eyes Alliance Can’t Afford to Stay Small
The challenges of the digital age require more partners to monitor fast-moving, global threats. -
The Week That Was
Your weekly summary of everything on the site. -
The ‘End of Immunity’ for Leaders Who Commit International Crimes?
A review of Chile Eboe-Esuji, “The End of Immunity: Holding World Leaders Accountable for Aggression, Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity” (Prometheus, 2024). -
Lessons From the European Airports Ransomware Attack
A ransomware attack affecting some of Europe’s busiest airports revealed how regulatory approaches diverge on each side of the Atlantic. -
The Situation: The Inanities Continue in the Comey Case
It’s getting hard to keep up. -
The Question of Standing in Leaks of Non-‘Salacious’ Data
When driver’s license numbers surface online after a data breach, their owners have standing to sue—at least in the Fourth Circuit. -
AI-Powered Espionage Will Favor China
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare. -
Lawfare Daily: The New U.N. Security Council Resolution on Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan, with Amb. Jeffrey Feltman and Joel Braunold
Discussing President Trump’s peace plan for Gaza. -
The Law Allowing Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches Is Worse Than You Thought
The controversial new measure paves the way for a big payday for senators—and undercuts reasonable debate about how the Justice Department should investigate Congress. -
Comey, James, and ‘Animus Through a Megaphone’
Claims of vindictive prosecution are usually hard to win. But James Comey and Letitia James both have unusual cases.
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Rational Security: The “Happy FrAIday” Edition
Scott Anderson sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Kevin Frazier, Roger Parloff, and Molly Roberts to talk through some of the week’s big news in AI. -
Harsh Confinement
A review of W. Fitzhugh Brundage, “A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War” (Norton, 2026). -
Open-Weight Model Advances Make the Mythos Debate Moot
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.
