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A President’s Words Matter, Part III: The Trump Attack on the Department of Justice and the Politics of Demagoguery
News coverage of Donald Trump’s recent pronouncements about the criminal justice system has centered on the question of norms. He is rightly criticized for refusing to observe restraint in his comments a... -
The Constitutional Context for Iraq’s Latest Crisis
For the past three weeks, the central government of Iraq has been engaged in an unprecedented military campaign to re-assert its authority over the country’s internally disputed territories. -
The Week That Will Be
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Will Killer Robots Be Banned? Lessons from Past Civil Society Campaigns
Editor’s Note: One of the most successful NGO anti-war efforts was the campaign to ban landmines, which led to a treaty banning their use and production in 1997. Activists, not surprisingly, are using th... -
Wassenaar, Cybersecurity, and Why European Officials Get Better Lunches than Americans
Alan Cohn and I did a one-hour explanation of the fuss over the Wassenaar Arrangement, intrusion software, and cybersecurity on Friday. Because we did it for the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transpare... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Populisms Ancient and Modern with Mike Duncan
Political polarization, inequality, and corruption during the period 146 to 78 BC gravely weakened the Roman Republic in the years before its collapse. -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
What a week it was. Last Friday, CNN reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had filed the first indictments in the Russia investigation—though it did not name either the targets or the charges. Su... -
Document: Col. Vance Spath Memorandum of Opposition
On Friday, military judge Col. Vance Spath filed a memorandum of opposition to plaintiff Brig. Gen. John G. Baker’s petition for writ of habeas corpus. You can view the full document here: -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
President Donald Trump leaves for Asia on Friday; he will visit Japan, China, South Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines, the New York Times reported. Trump will address the North Korean missile crisis in ... -
New ‘Hack Back’ Legislation Makes Improvements and Raises New Questions
Active defense in cyberspace—otherwise known as “hacking back”—has recently emerged as a serious point of contention in cybersecurity policy. In early 2017, Rep. Tom Graves introduced a draft bill titled... -
Did Iran Sanctions Embolden the Revolutionary Guard?
Did the sanctions regime that preceded the Iran nuclear deal enable the regime's most notorious actor, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)? -
‘Transcendental Nonsense’ and Technology Companies: Reframing the Content Regulation Debate
On Tuesday, top legal executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, offering the latest updates on the extent of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and ...
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