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Lawfare Live: Court Hearing on the Removal of Abrego Garcia
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Process as Punishment: An American History of Political Spectacle
American political theater isn’t new. The House Un-American Activities Committee operated for decades—until targets learned to fight back. -
Escalation: Boiling The Frog
Listen to the seventh and final episode of Escalation, a narrative podcast on U.S.-Ukraine relations. -
Should American Spies Steal Commercial Secrets?
U.S. intelligence agencies have never stolen foreign commercial and technology secrets. It’s time to rethink that taboo. -
Lawfare Daily: Trials of the Trump Administration, April 11
Listen to the April 11 Lawfare Live. -
The UAE’s Trump-Era AI Strategy
The Trump administration should beware mounting Emirati courtship for more U.S. AI chips. -
The Situation: Formalist Delusions Confront Lawless Realities
Why would anyone grant these people a presumption of regularity? -
The Week That Was
Your weekly summary of everything on the site. -
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). -
Lawfare Daily: The Golden Dome Missile Defense Program
Is the Golden Dome program feasible? -
MAGA's NSA Purge Will Get Messy
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare. -
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.
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The Judge Dugan Case Is More Complicated Than It Seems
Some see the prosecution of the Wisconsin circuit court judge as vindicating the rule of law, and others as an attack on it. They’re both wrong. -
Securing Tomorrow: Why America Needs an AI Education Corps
An AI Education Corps can gird the U.S. public against AI threats while empowering them to contribute to AI innovation. -
Trump Signs Order ‘Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement’
The executive order directs the attorney general to “maximize the use of federal resources,” including “military and national security assets,” to “aggressively police crime.”