The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit weighed the question during oral arguments in United States v. Mackey.

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In both civil and criminal cases, presidents should generally receive qualified, not absolute, immunity for official acts.

The recent cybersecurity catastrophe that wasn’t reveals an untenable situation, one being exploited by malicious actors. 

A group with ties to the Ukrainian government is breaching the email accounts of Russian military officers, politicians, and civilians.

Interstate support for Texas’s border operations underscore states’ meaningful, but limited, independent authority to deploy military personnel for domestic operations.

Secure records can help prove that attacks by armed uncrewed vehicles were conducted under human control.

The U.S. must better balance its coercive economic security measures with constructive policies that underscore the benefits of new and sustainable forms of interdependence.

New data suggests that the public is broadly accepting of targeted facial recognition use even as it is concerned about casual facial surveillance becoming an everyday event.

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Section 241 can be applied in a manner that resolves the First Amendment concerns raised by Mackey and the government while allowing the law to achieve its intended purposes.