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Egyptian security forces targeted militants in the Sinai peninsula after an attack on a mosque in a local village killed 305 people, the New York Times reported. -
The Fifth Amendment, Decryption and Biometric Passcodes
The spread of commercially available encryption products has made it harder for law enforcement officials to access to information that relates to criminal and national security investigations. In Octobe... -
Microsoft Challenged the Wrong Law. Now What?
The Supreme Court recently agreed to hear an important electronic privacy case, United States v. Microsoft, on whether Microsoft has to comply with a United States search warrant for email stored by Micr... -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Tuesday, November 28 at 11:00 am: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will address the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on The U.S.... -
The Carpenter Argument: Quick Video Reactions on Twitter and on Facebook Live
The Supreme Court held oral argument this morning in Carpenter v. United States. Here's my take from the courthouse steps afterwards: -
Acting Accordingly: Acting Officers and the Federal Vacancies Reform Act
Lawfare’s readers are well-aware that the political echelons of the Trump administration are woefully understaffed. Ten months into this presidency, the pace of appointments under Trump trails that of hi... -
Foreign Fighter ‘Hot Potato’
Editor’s Note: As the Caliphate collapses, many of its foreign volunteers are fleeing Iraq and Syria. A lot of ink has been spilled (some by me, in fact) on the problem of foreign fighters returning home... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Arkady Ostrovsky on Russia’s Wild Wild Far East
Vladimir Putin’s government is often painted as an all powerful, centralized regime. But, in reality, it’s far from that: in Russia’s Far East, Moscow is either resented or disregarded by many, and the s... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Richard Betts and Matthew Waxman outlined a proposal to constrain and safeguard the president’s authority to launch a first-use nuclear attack. Amanda Sloat explained why the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s c... -
The Fourth Amendment Doesn't Recognize a General ‘Right to be Secure’
I sometimes hear an argument in Fourth Amendment circles that the Fourth Amendment guarantees a “right to be secure.” The argument comes in different forms from different scholars, but I would summarize ... -
Rational Security: The "Mother May I Launch a Missile" Edition
Should the president have the sole authority to launch nuclear missiles? President Trump designates North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism. And the “grownups” in charge of national security are exhaust... -
Summary: Stone v. Trump U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland Memorandum Opinion and Preliminary Injunction
On Nov. 20, Judge Marvin Garbis of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued a memorandum opinion and preliminary injunction against the government in Stone, et al., v.
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