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The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Carpenter v. United States raises lots of fascinating and novel Fourth Amendment questions. In this post I want to focus on one interesting and important set of qu...
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Trump v. Hawaii is about the constitutional status of pretext: When should we accept a pretext from the president and what does it take to cure or alleviate the taint of bad acts by a president once they...
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U.S. intelligence says North Korea is not giving up its nukes. Should the next Supreme Court justice recuse on matters involving Trump and the Russia probe? And the war in Afghanistan grinds on, with lit...
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A group of steel importers filed the latest challenge to the Trump administration's steel tariffs on June 27 under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The suit, filed by the American Institut...
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Two British nationals were hospitalized after being exposed to a Soviet-era nerve agent, according to BBC. This latest incident bears striking similarities to an event in March when an ex-Russian spy and...
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George Conway, writing in Lawfare a few weeks ago, forcefully rejected professor Steven Calabresi’s argument that the special counsel’s appointment was unconstitutional. I agree with his analysis as a ge...
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won the Turkish election the other day, and becomes the first president under Turkey's new empowered presidential system. His party, in coalition with ultra-nationalists, will contro...
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The Senate intelligence committee released the findings Tuesday of its review of the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 election. The document is bel...
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A federal judge ordered the U.S. government to stop its blanket detention policy for asylum seekers, according to the Washington Post. The government will now have to release more than 1,000 individuals ...
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Review of Daphne Richemond-Barak’s “Underground Warfare” (Oxford, 2018).
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As the chaos unspooled from President Trump’s executive order on family separations, a conventional wisdom quickly emerged: This order was an echo of the very first executive order of Trump’s presidency—...
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Emirati-backed Forces Pause Offensive in Yemen
