A review of Aviva Guttmann, “Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad’s Assassination Campaign” (Cambridge University Press, 2025)

The Supreme Court is dead to me whatever it does.

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.

The trial ended in an acquittal. But the proceedings felt like a strange sort of performance art—highly amusing and highly menacing at the same time.

Contrary to recent assertions, federal officers do not have blanket immunity from criminal prosecutions brought by states.

State prosecutions of ICE agents may end up in federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power.

The president’s threat to resume tests is the latest erosion of a long-standing norm.

The government’s response to James Comey’s vindictive prosecution raises one very big and important question.

The recent detention and repatriation of two survivors of a U.S. military strike marks another legal evolution in the Trump administration’s claimed armed conflict with drug cartels.

I got the law right but the institutions wrong.

The rejection leaves the DPF politically fragile, legally untested at the Court of Justice, and vulnerable to shifts in Washington.

Ukraine’s offensive cyber strategy demonstrates that Western governments need to adopt a “responsibly irresponsible” warfighting approach.