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Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes introduced Lawfare’s new podcast series, entitled The Report, which tells the story contained in Robert Mueller’s 448-page report. The first episode is available on al...
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On July 12, the government filed an application before the Supreme Court for a stay pending appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Trump v. Sierra Club, concerning the president’s u...
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If I were a member of Congress with five minutes to question Robert Mueller, I would ask short questions drawn from the report’s executive summaries.
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On Friday, July 19 House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York requesting information related to two qu...
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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, alleging that the tanker violated international laws and regulations, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Conventional wisdom and many lower court cases hold that foreign states are not entitled to constitutionally based personal jurisdiction protections in federal courts because they are not “persons” prote...
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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For the past several weeks, a group of us has been working on a project to tell the story of the Mueller Report in an accessible form. The Mueller Report tells a heck of a story, a bunch of incredible st...
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The body of Jamal Khashoggi has yet to be found, and the case of his murder is littered with unanswered questions. There are a number of certainties about the gruesome crime, however, backed up by eviden...
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U.S. and Chinese Negotiators Make Contact Following the G-20 Summit
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At the request of the district court, on July 17 the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York made public an unredacted status report and series of investigative materials relating to...
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The Iranian military seized a foreign oil tanker and 12 crew members, which it said was transporting oil from Iranian smugglers to foreign clients, in the most recent escalation of tensions in the Strait...
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Editor's Note: This piece is crossposted on Lawfare and EJIL:Talk!
States frequently take actions and make statements that implicate international law. But because they do not—and, indeed, could not—exp...
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For our latest episode, we offer you National Security Law Podcast Mad Libs in lieu of show notes!
We’re back after a __ [number]-week break, and there have been some ____ [noun] security law developmen...
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that the U.S. has banned the commander of the Myanmar military and three of his top-ranking generals from travelling to the U.S. in retaliation for their role...
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Two immigration support and advocacy organizations filed suit over the Trump administration’s latest restrictions on asylum, in addition to the ACLU’s lawsuit. Both the complaint and the plaintiffs’ moti...
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Thirty-two Cubans line the international bridge connecting Roma, Texas, with Ciudad Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas. The Cubans sit one after another on the Mexican side of the bridge, checking their phones, c...
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Just before John Brennan ended his term as director of the CIA in 2017, his agency issued a new set of guidelines under Executive Order (EO) 12333, the general charter that governs the intelligence commu...
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Joe Biden lays out his foreign policy agenda. The Trump administration issues new rules for asylum seekers. And Julian Assange reportedly had some curious guests at the Ecuadorian embassy.
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What is the federal government doing to get compromised hardware and software out of its supply chain? That’s what we ask Harvey Rishikof, coauthor of “Deliver Uncompromised,” and Joyce Corell, who head...
