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There are numerous lawyers in the news in the case (or cases) of Donald Trump, and their stories tell a tale about how this president views the law and the role of his legal advisers.
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, March 12 at 10:00 a.m.: The Brookings Institution will host Amy Chua for a discussion about her new book, “Political Tribes: Group Insti...
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Editor’s Note: How vulnerable are U.S. submarines in the event of a nuclear war? Some analysts have argued that, after firing their missiles, submarines would be sitting ducks for adversaries to target. ...
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Long before the election of Donald Trump, Yascha Mounk predicted that democracy was in trouble. A leading voice on the crisis of democracy and the growth of populism, Mounk has now written a book that ad...
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Let’s start with the special counsel investigation.
Emma Kohse and Benjamin Wittes explored the legal theory driving the special counsel’s indictment of Russian hackers and entities, arguing that the th...
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Let the record reflect that I dissent from this episode's title, which was imposed upon me because I joined remotely from Maui.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller zeroes in on a mysterious Lebanese business...
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Today’s news post is shorter than usual. Our normal coverage will resume on Monday.
President Trump agreed to a request from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for direct talks, reports the New York Tim...
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Last Wednesday, Feb. 28, a bipartisan coalition of senators introduced a proposed new joint resolution seeking to compel the Trump administration to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen. ...
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On Feb. 25, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) issued a formal amendment proposal to abolish constitutional term limits for the presidency. Assuming the amendment goes through, which it almost certainly w...
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On Dec. 29, 2017, police officers surrounded 28-year-old Andrew Finch’s house in Wichita, Kansas, in response to a 911 call. After being asked to come to the door with his hands up, Finch opened the door...
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Is it legal for the U.S. government to hold an American citizen in military detention in Iraq if that person was captured in the Syrian combat zone and was a fighter for the Islamic State?
That’s the fu...
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Late last year, in an interview with The New York Times, President Trump declared that he has the “absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department.” In a similar vein, the president’s ...
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The special counsel has compiled evidence proving that the meeting between George Nader, Erik Prince, and a Russian investor in Seychelles prior to President Trump’s inauguration constituted an attempt t...
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This coming Monday, March 12, the Trump administration is expected to produce a “report on the legal and policy frameworks for the United States’ use of military force and related national security opera...
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
The wars in Yemen will enter their fourth year this month with no end in sight, and the combatants have little interest in meaningful...
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Editor’s Note: SinoTech is a new bi-weekly Lawfare series on technology-related legal and policy issues in China and the United States with a focus on implications for U.S.-China relations and national s...
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Editor's Note: This post contains the text of a speech that former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson is delivering this hour at the Boston Conference on Cybersecurity.
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The military commission in United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al. (the “9/11 case”) reconvened for pretrial proceedings last week, meeting in open session on Feb. 26 and March 1 in addition to se...
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George Nader, an adviser to the United Arab Emirates with ties to several Trump aides, is cooperating with the special counsel investigation, the New York Times reports.
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The House Homeland Security Subcommittees on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection and Oversight and Management Efficiency are holding a hearing Wednesday affternoon at 2:00 p.m. on "Examining DHS'...
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