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The Ninth Circuit held in a per curiam order on Thursday (summarized here) that, pending a definitive adjudication on the merits, refugees abroad with sponsorship assurances from U.S. resettlement agenci...
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The credit reporting agency Equifax announced on Thursday that hackers may have compromised the personal information of up to 143 million American customers, the New York Times reported. The company said...
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When Tim Edgar told his ACLU colleagues in early 2006 that he’d be leaving the organization to join the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, our reactions ranged from mute astonishment to out...
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On our Foreign Policy feed this week, we identified the questions that the Senate Intelligence Committee should have answers to before issuing its final report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. el...
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Below is an excerpt of a piece that appears on our Foreign Policy feed.
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The United Nations is preparing a new diplomatic push to reconcile feuding parties in Libya. The war-torn country will be a major topic at the upcoming U.N. General Assembly this month and Secretary Gene...
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This piece is part of a series on Tim Edgar's new book, "Beyond Snowden."
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“Follow the money.” Mark Felt, the deceased FBI executive who was Watergate’s “Deep Throat,” may not have actually whispered those words to reporter Bob Woodward. But they reflect a practice federal agen...
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Unlike most Silicon Valley companies, Apple’s business model is one of "Data Liability." Unlike Google or Facebook which use advertising to extract value from users’ personal information, Apple focuses o...
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The Justice Department filed a brief on Wednesday opposing the cert petition in Bahlul v. United States. Counsel for Ali Hamza Suliman al Bahlul filed the cert petition in March to seek review of an Octo...
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On Saturday, September 23, Harvard Law School, with the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago, will host a one-day conference on "populist plutocrats": leaders who capitalize on anti-elite sentimen...
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Late last week, the Second Circuit issued a long-awaited opinion in Doe v. Hagenbeck. The case deals with myriad claims brought forward by a former West Point Cadet, Jane Doe, against Lt. Gen. Franklin L...
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi acknowledged yesterday that the U.N. should “make a further response and take necessary measures” to curb North Korea’s nuclear program, Reuters reports. The U.S. has pre...
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This piece is part of a series on Tim Edgar's new book, "Beyond Snowden."
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In a new essay, Sandy Levinson and Mark Graber candidly admit what the legal resistance has long refused to acknowledge: Donald J. Trump, an “anti-Publian” president, is not entitled to the “presumption ...
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In response to a FOIA request from the ACLU, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice released FISA Amendments Act Section 702 documents on August 23. Below, we s...
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President Trump’s lawyers argue that he didn’t obstruct justice when he fired James Comey. UN Ambassador Nikki Haley explains how the US could leave the Iran nuclear deal. And the Homeland Security Depar...
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A review of Arundhati Roy's novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Knopf, 2017).
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Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected a U.S. proposal to cut off fuel supplies to North Korea in a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday, according to the New York Times. Putin...
