Last Saturday, Harry Siegel of the New York Daily News reported that shortly after President Trump signed his immigration executive order, Stephen Miller called the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District...

Last week, Reuters reported that China is “considering revisions to its maritime safety law which would make foreign submersibles travel on the surface and report their movements to authorities when in C...

The Department of Homeland Security released two implementation memos today providing guidance to DHS personnel regarding President Trump’s Executive Orders restricting immigration and refugee policies. ...

As Lawfare readers know, ever since the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, lower courts have split over how to apply the majority’s cryptic holding that the Alien Tort Stat...

Iraqi Forces Begin Offensive to Retake Western Mosul

Jack Goldsmith is among those who have expressed concerns about Don McGahn’s performance as White House Counsel. He has focused on the questions raised by the Executive Order on immigration, the Flynn in...

President Donald Trump has named Army Lieutenant General Herbert Raymond “H.R.” McMaster, 54, as his new National Security Adviser, calling McMaster a “man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience....

The Russian Connection gravitational vortex continues to pull at the new administration, fed almost daily by new allegations and reporting. Reuters reported over the weekend on three separate FBI probes ...

President Donald Trump assessed the state of U.S. foreign affairs during his wide-ranging Thursday press conference: “I just want to let you know, I inherited a mess.” That evaluation appeared to rely, ...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly has just sent two memos to the White House for review that could fundamentally reshape U.S. immigration enforcement and exacerbate tensions with...

Editor’s Note: Terrorism is a global problem, but it is also a local one. Individual terrorists, particularly lone wolves, are often linked to their communities in terms of their resentments, ambitions, ...

As many are reporting this morning, the Secretary of DHS has issued two memos regarding immigration enforcement. I will have much to say about them later, but for now, here is a link to the versions tha...

The New York Times is calling for a "special prosecutor" to investigate the Russian influence on the elections. That's the right instinct, but, because words matter I wanted to offer a small "nit." The...

From Fox News to MSNBC, the press has panned President Trump’s Thursday solo press conference.

As Lawfare readers know, someone in government leaked the news that Michael Flynn did indeed discuss sanctions in his post-election phone calls with Russia’s Ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kisly...