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The Trump administration must offer bolder reforms if it wants to prevent the new Syria from descending into chaos.
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Discussing the Jan. 6 pardons.
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The new policy directs department attorneys to investigate and potentially prosecute those officials who refuse to enforce Trump’s hard-line immigration enforcement policies.
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The memo calls for a reassessment of trade agreements and recommendations to “defend” U.S. economic and national security.
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The order also directs the attorney general and secretary of homeland security to “make operational preparations” to implement any decision the president may make “to invoke the Alien Enemies Act.”
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The proclamation exercises both statutory authority alongside broad new assertions of constitutional authority to implement new restrictions on immigration.
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The Constitution provides tools with which to defend against a demagogue. But political elites have refused to use them.
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Scott Anderson, Benjamin Wittes, Quinta Jurecic, and Alan Rozenshtein talked through the week’s big—and we mean BIG—national security news
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Trump’s executive orders reveal the range of legal theories (some uncontroversial, others quite radical) that may be used to justify military deployments to combat immigration.
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On Jan. 23 at 4 pm ET the Lawfare team will discuss the national security and foreign policy EOs.
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Trump ordered a 90-day pause in foreign aid programs pending review of their efficiency and consistency with U.S. foreign policy.
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The order directs the State Department and other government actors to begin the process of withdrawal from the World Health Organization.
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Newly proposed regulations highlight how FARA’s overbreadth creates confusion and risks politicization.
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What's the status of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas?
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Four suits filed in federal court this week mark an initial effort by states and advocacy groups to block the order.
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The order directs the attorney general to investigate federal government activities of the last four years that may have violated principles of free speech.
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The order states that citizenship does not extend to babies born on U.S. soil, something long understood to be guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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The NSC functions to advise the president on “the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to national security.”
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The union argues that the order, which strips certain federal employees of employment protections, violates multiple laws and regulations.
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Not even the president can change the truth.
