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Planning for Coronavirus
Efforts undertaken by the George W. Bush administration to prepare for an avian flu outbreak provide a model for how the Trump administration should respond to coronavirus. -
Appeals Court Affirms Two Injunctions Against Trump Administration Asylum Policies
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Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Lawfare’s daily roundup of national security news and opinion -
Why the Trump Administration May End Up in Court Over War Powers Reporting
Congress has told the Trump administration that it has to produce a public war powers report by March 1. And if that doesn’t happen, private citizens can now sue over it. -
States and Cities Could Use Billions of Unspent DHS Grants to #Protect2020
Rather than waiting on Congress, states can use unspent funds for cybersecurity. -
House Foreign Affairs Committee Hears Testimony from Pompeo on Use of Force in Iran and Iraq
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If We Build It (They Will Break In)
As the debate over law enforcement access to encrypted communications continues, commentators and policymakers often overlook an instructive historical example. -
Random Toxicity? What’s Going on in @benjaminwittes’s Mentions
An attempt to understand the hostile, and strangely repetitive, responses to @benjaminwittes tweets and to demystify some bizarre pile-ons it and other accounts provoke. -
House of Representatives Files Supreme Court Brief in Mazars and Deutsche Bank Cases
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What a New Resource Says About the Value of War Powers Reporting
A valuable new database of war powers reports is available for scholars—but absent congressional action, the type of document it is collecting may not be long for this world. -
House Armed Services Committee Holds Hearing on Strategic Forces Posture
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House Foreign Affairs Committee Holds Hearing on Response to Coronavirus
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The Lawfare Podcast: Bridget Barrett and Daniel Kreiss on the Chaos of Social Media Advertising
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Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Lawfare’s daily roundup of national security news and opinion -
Summary: The House Judiciary Committee’s Proposed Changes to FISA
On Monday, Feb. 24, the House Judiciary Committee introduced legislation that would amend and reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). -
One Year From Expiration, 'New START' Remains in Limbo
Increased tension between the United States and Russia, coupled with policy uncertainty in Washington, has thrown the nuclear arms agreement’s extension into doubt. -
The Iron March Data Dump Provides a Window Into How White Supremacists Communicate and Recruit
Approximately two years after the white supremacist and neo-Nazi website Ironmarch.org was shut down, an anonymous individual posted a database of all user activity tracked by the site. -
Rational Security: The 'Just Quarantine Everything' Edition
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The Cyberlaw Podcast: Ratchet to Disaster
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Justice Department Charges Five With Links to White Supremacist Group
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The Maritime Origins of Judicial Review
A review of Kevin Arlyck, “The Nation at Sea: The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789-1825” (Cambridge University Press, 2025). -
Colombia’s Transitional Justice Was Built to Survive de la Espriella
It is a global model for its domestic, not international, legal origins. Future peace may be the real cost of de la Espriella’s attacks.
