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What's New in the Paul Manafort and Rick Gates Indictment?
A grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia returned a superseding indictment Thursday against Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, whom Special Counsel Robert Mueller had previously charged with money lau... -
Document: Superseding Indictment Against Manafort and Gates
On Thursday, a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia charged Paul Manafort and Richard Gates on a total of 32 counts related to bank fraud, tax fraud, and failure to report foreign bank accounts... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Pentagon is reviewing options that would enable President Trump to move national security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster from his current role back to the military, CNN reports. The Defense Departmen... -
More of the Same? Human Rights in an Age of Inequality
PDF Version A review of Kathryn Sikkink’s “Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century” (Princeton, 2017). *** -
Why the Mueller Indictment Doesn't Allege the Russians Swung the Election
In announcing that 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies were being charged for “seeking to interfere in the United States political system,” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made it cle... -
Rational Security: The "Mansplaining" Edition
Bob Mueller indicts a slew of Russians who interfered in the 2016 election. Can the president distinguish between the national interest and his own? And the school shooting in Florida brings students to ... -
The National Security Law Podcast: This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
An overly long episode with a short title to reflect a very busy—and somewhat bizarre—eight day stretch in the wide world of national security law. This week, your hosts weigh in on: -
The Travel Ban, Article II, and the Nondelegation Doctrine
On Sept. 24, 2017, President Trump signed a proclamation, better known as “travel ban 3.0,” which would have denied entry to aliens from six predominantly-Muslim nations. -
The Microsoft-Ireland Case: A Supreme Court Preface to the Congressional Debate
In our interconnected world, the electronic data that we create may be stored far away from us, without regard for national boundaries. If our data become relevant to legitimate law enforcement investiga... -
Uncivil Military Relations?
We had many indications during the 2016 campaign that a Donald Trump presidency would be bad for civil-military relations. -
Document: Supreme Court Decision in Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 in Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran that Section 1610(g) of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) does not provide a freestanding basis for allowing parti... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Alex van der Zwaan pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges of lying to federal investigators about communications with Rick Gates, a former Trump aide, the New York Times reports. Van der Zwaan also admitte...
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