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Police in Hong Kong retook control of the Legislative Council building which protestors broke into and occupied on Monday for almost three hours, CNN reports. The Chinese government called the protests a...
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The House Committee on Ways and Means has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service in order to obtain Pre...
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Early this week, about 200 protestors broke into and occupied the seat of Hong Kong's legislative assembly. The protests began with a controversial law about extradition to mainland China. That law was w...
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American law enforcement efforts have become increasingly multifaceted as the government attempts to combat the continuing ingenuity and sophistication of transnational organized criminal groups. Since t...
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The theme this week is China’s growing confidence in using cyberweapons in new and sophisticated ways, as the U.S. struggles to find an answer to China’s growing ambition to dominate technology.
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Welcome back to the National Security Law Podcast, where co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck cross-swords with courtesy and nerdistry while reviewing the latest national security legal news (along ...
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Facebook has released an update on its ongoing civil rights audit, illustrating the wide range of effects the company has on civil rights—from facilitating racially discriminatory ads for housing, employ...
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The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has filed its brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Trump v.
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During his visit to South Korea over the weekend, President Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Demilitarized Zone. The two agreed to restart negotiations over the North Korean nuclear ...
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On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit released an unredacted version of its ruling in the case of Doe v. Mattis. The redacted version was released on May 9, 2018 and is available here...
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Mea Culpa: It’s all my fault.
On Wednesday, press outlets reported that the chief of protocol of the State Department, Ambassador Sean Lawler, has been “suspended indefinitely” pending the conclusion of...
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Here is the Summer 2019 Supplement for Bradley & Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2017). This supplement covers, among other things, the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v...
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In a new Washington Quarterly article titled “Presidential Alliance Powers,” we wrestle with a subject that has become familiar in these pages: the chief executive’s ability to dismantle American allianc...
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In recent years, counterterrorism policy has focused on making social media platforms hostile environments for terrorists and their sympathizers. From the German NetzDG law to the U.K.’s Online Harms Whi...
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We don't usually do humor on the Lawfare Podcast, but this week, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Mike Chase, whom you probably know better on Twitter as @CrimeADay, the long-time anonymous Twitter feed tha...
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Let's start with Iran news.
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In a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Trump made light of Russian election interference by jokingly warning the Russian president “Don’t meddle in the election, please,” ...
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The Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program has faced a great deal of criticism since the Trump administration unveiled the policy, colloquially known as Remain in Mexico, in January 2019. Now, the po...
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It’s been roughly six months since Facebook started collecting global feedback on its proposal to create an oversight board for content moderation decisions. This morning, the platform released the findi...
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