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Better Democracy Promotion through Immigration
Editor’s Note: Immigrants are often portrayed as a threat to democracy, particularly if they come from "shithole" countries as our president has so charmingly put it. This view, however, ignores the very... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Chimène Keitner on the State Department Before and After #Rexit
Chimène Keitner served as counselor for international law at the State Department under the Obama and Trump administrations. On this week’s podcast, Keitner speaks to Scott Anderson about her experience ... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
In response to growing concerns that President Trump will fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Adam White argued that Congress should focus on the procedural elements of any judicial review of a dismissa... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
On Friday, the Pentagon announced that an American service member was among those killed by a roadside bomb in Syria, CBS reports. The bomb killed two members of the anti-ISIS coalition and wounded anoth... -
Summary: The Trump Administration’s New Policy on Transgender Servicemembers
On March 23, the Trump administration released a new order restricting the ability of transgender individuals to serve in the military. -
Combatting Deepfakes through the Right of Publicity
Fake news is bad enough already, but something much nastier is just around the corner: As Evelyn Douek explained, the “next frontier” of fake news will feature machine-learning software that can cheaply ... -
Revelations on the FBI’s Unlocking of the San Bernardino iPhone: Maybe the Future Isn't Going Dark After All
Lawfare readers may be familiar with the San Bernardino case in which the FBI took Apple to court over the locked iPhone of the dead terrorist. I certainly am. I testified in Congress about the case in M... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Kremlin announced Thursday that it will expel 150 Western diplomats and shutter the U.S. consulate in St. Petersburg, the New York Times reports. Moscow’s decision comes in response to the West’s exp... -
Rational Security: The “All the President’s Lawyers” Edition
Like Goldilocks in search of porridge, the President can’t seem to find the lawyer who’s just right. The U.S. expels Russian diplomats, but Trump continues to hold his fire against Putin. And Mark Zucker... -
Punishing Tomorrow's Tweeting Goebbels
PDF Version A review of Gregory S. Gordon, “Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition” (Oxford, 2017). *** -
‘What Mueller Knows’: Ensuring a Special Counsel Report in the Worst-Case Scenario
Even as President Trump has escalated his attacks on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the congressional leadership has spurned movement on proposed legislation to protect the investigation. Republicans ha... -
Breaking the Encryption Stalemate: New Research on Secure Third-Party Access
Last month, the National Academies released their report on potential solutions to the problem of law enforcement access to encrypted data. The reaction was polite but unenthusiastic.
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