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On Wednesday, Jack wrote in defense of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's and FBI Director Christopher Wray’s efforts to rebuke the president’s demoralizing tweets about their agencies:
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In this week’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck catch up with a number of 2017’s most persistent national security law sagas.
For starters, there’s the indictment and plea agreement of Michael Fl...
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President Donald Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and pledged to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the New York Times reported. In televised remarks from the White ...
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President Donald Trump is making a statement on the decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. To understand the context and implications, read Lawfare's analysis from Scott Anderson and Y...
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Unheralded amid the recent political chaos in Washington and upheavals in the Middle East was a potential bit of good news: revelations that the al-Qaeda core’s split from its Syrian affiliate did not re...
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In less than a month, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is set to expire. As the clock runs out on one of the U.S. government’s most important counterterrorism and counterin...
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I wrote Monday morning about costs within the Justice Department when its leaders stay silent in the face of the president’s caustic attacks on the department’s independence and integrity. I mentioned in...
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Earlier today, Josh Blackman penned on this site a cogent piece arguing that a president cannot commit the crime of obstruction of justice using valid exercises of his Article II powers as president. The...
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President Donald Trump’s lawyer, John Dowd, asserted that the “President cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under [the Constitution's Article II] and has every right ...
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, America’s longtime ally in the Middle East, faces a tumultuous future. Plummeting oil prices, an ongoing royal purge, and Yemen’s civil war across the border have thrust the ...
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A review of Amanda Tyler's Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay (Oxford, 2017).
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The Supreme Court permitted the administration to fully enforce the Sept. 24 revised travel ban order pending litigation in federal appellate courts, the Washington Post reported.
