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Acting Attorney General Sally Yates—who was Barack Obama’s Deputy Attorney General and has been running DOJ until Jeff Sessions is confirmed—today sent a letter to top Justice Department officials announ...
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Acting Attorney General Sally Yates has announced in a letter to Department of Justice staff that the Department will not be enforcing President Trump's executive order excluding immigrants and refugees ...
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The Chicago Tribune informs us that protests erupted outside the White House and in cities around the United States in response to President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning entry of refugees ...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, January 30th at 1:30pm: The U.S. Institute of Peace will host a conversation with Pakistani Opposition Leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on ...
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On January 9th, Reps. Yoder and Polis re-introduced the Email Privacy Act to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) (there is no Senate companion bill yet). ECPA sets forth the rules for...
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The President's new Executive Order on immigration has caused significant confusion at the nation's borders -- and that is an understatement. One of the most controversial and most confusing aspects of ...
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President Trump’s Executive Order severely restricting visa-holders and refugees’ freedom to enter the United States is not only immoral and un-American—it’s also likely to fail on its own terms and lead...
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Consider this a major bureaucratic uprising on the part of career foreign service officers against the President on his executive order on refugees.
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Amidst the whirlwind of executive orders and presidential memoranda that have been in the news, it was easy to miss a purported draft of President Trump’s first executive order (EO) covering cybersecurit...
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As we shared earlier, Lawfare is seeing a dramatic increase in readership. We think this reflects the importance of what we publish and are excited that the national security legal issues we’ve long care...
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The problem with President Trump is that he moves so quickly from quixotic disaster to quixotic disaster that we can lose track of what is happening. Problems flare up in an instant only be overtaken by...