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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...
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A Special Forces soldier died Sunday following an IED attack in southern Afghanistan, reports the New York Times. 36-year-old Sgt. First Class Reymund Rarogal Transfiguracion of Waikoloa, Hawaii, was wor...
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President Donald Trump signed the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2019 into law on Monday afternoon, at an event at Fort Drum military base in upstate New York.
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The ongoing publicity tour by former senior White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman, once designated as one of the “nastiest TV villains of all time,” is the culmination of the questionable hiring c...
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A federal Israel may offer an approach to Israel’s drift toward binationalism.
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Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, I attended a conference in Bozeman, Mont. Bozeman is a delightful place in the southeast corner of the state. It's home to a university and close to Yellowstone National P...
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Canada and Saudi Arabia have been at loggerheads over the past week ever since the Canadian Foreign Minister condemned Saudi Arabia’s arrest of Samar Badawi, a human rights activist. Saudi Arabia's react...
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A joint status report is expected Monday in Doe v. Mattis, in which the United States and the ACLU are locked in legal battle over the fate of an unnamed U.S.-Saudi dual citizen whom the U.S. alleges to ...
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This Headlines and Commentary post is shorter than usual. Our normal coverage will resume tomorrow.
The Pentagon is considering a new system for awarding contracts to defense manufacturers, reports the ...
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On Monday, Judge Dabney Friedrich of the the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled against a motion challenging the constitutionality of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment. The...
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Editor’s note: Over the next week, Lawfare will be running a series of essays on federalist governance in the Middle East. This introductory essay is the first in the series. Links to subsequent essays w...
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A little-noticed Watergate-era opinion addresses “Presidential Amenability to Judicial Subpoenas.”
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Editor’s Note: One of President Trump's more surprising, and more ambitious, decisions is to create a sixth branch of the military dedicated to space. Such a move would be historic, but would it be a goo...
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President Trump surprised many legal experts on Sunday when he tweeted that the purpose of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting was “to get information on an opponent.” Bob Bauer outlined the many ways that...
