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Water Wars: Tensions Build as the South China Sea Hosts Military Exercises
Tensions Build as the South China Sea Hosts Military Exercises The high tempo of Chinese military drills and operations in the South China Sea during recent weeks coincides with new deployments from the... -
The Travel Ban and Presidential Power
With the Supreme Court scheduled to hear oral argument on April 25 in Trump v. Hawaii, now is a good time to consider the government’s reliance on the president’s Article II power as a legal justificatio... -
Enjoining the Transfer of a US-Saudi Citizen to Saudi Arabia: A Doe v. Mattis Update and Initial Preview
Since this article's publishing, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has released Judge Chutkan's ruling. Read it on Lawfare. Can the U.S. government transfer a dual U.S.-Saudi citizen,... -
Fixing Ethiopia Requires More Than a New Prime Minister
Editor’s Note: For years, Ethiopia has appeared to be a relative success story, emerging from years of conflict and becoming a somewhat democratic, pro-Western ally in East Africa. Yet this success is in... -
The DNC v. Russia: The Question of Foreign Sovereign Immunity
Are Russia and its officials entitled to foreign sovereign immunity? Does President Trump have constitutional power to determine the immunity of Russian operative Guccifer 2.0? -
The Lawfare Podcast: Bobby Chesney and Scott Anderson on the Corker-Kaine AUMF
Last week, Sens. Bob Corker and Tim Kaine introduced a proposal to reshape the legal authorization for U.S. counterterrorism operations abroad. On Thursday, Susan Hennessey sat down with Bobby Chesney, c... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Friday, April 13, President Trump announced that the U.S., France, and the U.K. launched a series of airstrikes in Syria in response to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons in the formerly rebel... -
CIA Releases Declassified Memo on Haspel Involvement in Destruction of Tapes
The CIA released a declassified December 2011 memo by Michael Morell, then the deputy director, about Gina Haspel’s involvement in the destruction of detainee interrogation tapes in 2005. President Trump... -
Rational Security: The ‘I Don’t Get Confused’ Edition
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Will Iran Attack Israel over the Syrian Conflict? It’s Only a Matter of Time
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos. -
Document: DNC Sues Russia, Trump Campaign and WikiLeaks for Election Interference
On Friday, the Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Russian government, the Trump campaign and associated persons, an... -
Ted Cruz vs. Section 230: Misrepresenting the Communications Decency Act
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is critical to Facebook’s existence. Under Section 230, the platform is immune from liability that might otherwise be incurred from its users’ posts.
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