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On Thursday, February 2, Senators Mark Warner (D-VA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced legislation to restri...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral argument today in Washington v. Trump, regarding the State of Washington's challenge to the president's executive order banning refugees and imm...
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A little more than a week ago, Benjamin Wittes posted a piece about the malevolence and incompetence of Trump’s Executive Order on visas and refugees—an order that, in his words, is both wildly over-incl...
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For conscientious commentators, one problem with having a loose cannon for a president is the rapidly thinning line between irresponsible speculation and legitimate analysis.
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Our guest for episode 149 of the podcast is Jason Healey, whose Atlantic Council paper, “A Nonstate Strategy for Saving Cyberspace,” advocates for an explicit bias toward cyber defense and the private se...
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The United States and Australia have rarely disagreed on issues of strategy in the post-Cold War era. Generally, Australia reliably agrees with Washington’s assessment of threats and risks and supports A...
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In its reply brief urging the Ninth Circuit to stay Judge James Robart’s temporary restraining order against President Trump’s Refugee Executive Order (EO), the Justice Department has tried to move the ...
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On Friday, Magistrate Judge Thomas J. Rueter of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ordered Google to comply with search warrants for emails stored overseas.
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The New York Times informs us that during a speech at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, Trump accused the media of downplaying the threat that ISIS poses, claiming that the media “have their reas...
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Over the past two weeks, U.S.-Mexico relations deteriorated to their lowest point since perhaps the era of Pancho Villa.
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The Washington Post reports that, during the first chaotic weekend of the Trump executive order regarding refugees and immigrants, chief White House strategist Steve Bannon ordered the head of the Depart...
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The last few weeks have been "all Trump, all the time." In an effort to return to normalcy, herewith some Bits and Bytes from today.
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Earlier this month, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made comments during his confirmation hearing that alarmed many China watchers since they seemed to call for something close to a naval blockade of Ch...
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U.S.-Iran Tensions Escalate with Tit-for-Tat Missile Tests and Sanctions
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Today, the Texas Law Review is hosting a symposium on the Tallinn Manual 2.0 at the University of Texas at Austin, featuring panels on "sovereignty in cyberspace, jurisdiction over cyber activities, int...
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Despite what seemed like a change of direction from the Trump administration on settlements, the Israeli Knesset just passed the Settlement Regularization Law, which aims to “legalize” illegal settlement...
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When President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily banning refugees from a number of Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States and blocking Syrian refugees indefinitely, hi...
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In the midst of these tumultuous times, it's hard to imagine we might get back to normal, rational contemplations of law and policy.
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The legal battles continue over President Trump’s executive order banning the entry of immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries. On Friday, Judge James Robart of the U.S. District Cou...
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Citizens do not have a First Amendment right to read the full court decisions that support the legality of the NSA’s bulk data collection program, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court concluded in...
