If the president tries to go after career civil servants, he may trigger some significant legal consequences—including renewed scrutiny of his own conduct.

How did the Trump impeachment defense team deploy OLC memos to defend the president?

The Trump administration has proposed a worrisome principle: The past must be ignored. 

Over three days of hearings, the International Criminal Court’s Appeals Chamber considered whether to overturn an April 2019 decision blocking investigations into alleged war crimes by the Taliban and U....

The new president of the European Commission can help guide European policy in the right direction.

In responding to the coronavirus, the U.S. should apply lessons learned from past transnational threats—but unfortunately, in important respects, the federal government is moving in the wrong direction.

The disaster of the Iowa caucuses is a vivid illustration of how public reaction to a mishap can be worse than the mishap itself.

The U.S. government has begun invoking quarantine authority, so now is probably a good time for a review of the legal architectures that both authorize and constrain the quarantine power.

Ukrainians want action to demonstrate the Trump administration's commitment to the country.

As the U.S. government and the U.S. public consider the potential future use and regulation of facial surveillance, the debate in the U.K. can help to inform the U.S. discussion, particularly in terms of...

The current scope of the executive’s authority in this space is the product of decades of “unilateralist presidencies and submissive legislatures.” Essentially, Congress has abandoned this space, and the...

The impeachment process in the House was hardly perfect—and the way that process played out made it far less likely, rather than more likely, that Republican or conservative voters, politicians or activi...