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The government has filed a sentencing memorandum in the case of George Papadopoulos, recommending a sentence of between zero to six months. The document is available in full below.
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The Trump administration is preparing to impose sanctions on countries that buy oil from Iran after Nov. 4, including China, reports the Wall Street Journal. In response to Chinese non-compliance, Hook s...
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Editor’s note: This week, Lawfare is running a series of essays on federalist governance in the Middle East. This essay is the fifth in the series. Read the introductory essay here.
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In a fascinating decision, Naperville Smart Meter Awareness v. City of Naperville, the Seventh Circuit has held that a public utility commits a "search" of a home when it records every 15 minutes how muc...
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For more than a year, Saudi Arabia and its allies—especially the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt, collectively referred to as the Quartet—have led a relentless, and seemingly counterproductive c...
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The latest round of fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is only the most recent exchange that the Israeli military and other observers worry could escalate into war.
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Once again, Donald Trump has heedlessly jeopardized important institutional interests of the presidency in the service of his own personal pique. For years, courts have declined to review the merits of s...
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President Trump revoked the security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan, according to the New York Times. This was the first time a president had ever revoked a clearance outside of the establ...
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Editor’s note: This week, Lawfare is running a series of essays on federalist governance in the Middle East. This essay is the third in the series. Read the introductory essay here, the second essay here...
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Yesterday the Wall Street Journal’s Dustin Volz reported that President Trump has altered the interagency process for vetting offensive cyber operations. We do not have the full details yet, but it appea...
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo argued last month that there was “no rationale” for allowing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to divert “tax dollars” to Pakistan, since the IMF members’ funding, incl...
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This week, we talk about what Paul Manafort's fraud trial tells us, and doesn't tell us, about l'Affaire Russe; the tussle between executive and legislative authority in the new National Defense Authoriz...
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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump issued the following statement revoking former CIA director John Brennan’s security clearance. The full statement is below:
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At least 48 people were killed and 76 injured by a suicide bomber at a private learning center Shiite district of Kabul, according to the Washington Post. Most of those hurt in the attack were high schoo...
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We are back with review and analysis of the latest national security law developments, hot on the heels of last week’s deep-dive episode. We’ll have another deep dive soon, but for now it’s back to some ...
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Artificial intelligence will change the world. Because so many people and companies believe this, AI and the entire technological ecosystem in which it functions are highly valuable to private-sector org...
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The federal common law of foreign relations is a shrinking field. It should still govern many immunity-related issues, though not for the reasons courts and other scholars have given.
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Editor’s note: This week, Lawfare is running a series of essays on federalist governance in the Middle East. This essay is the third in the series. Read the introductory essay here and the second essay h...
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Deadly Airstrike in Yemen Hits Bus Full of Children
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied a motion for an initial en banc hearing in Qassim v. Trump. Judge David Tatel issued an extended concurrence, questioning the Circuit Cou...
