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On February 13, Kim Jong-nam—the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un—was killed at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysian investigators have determined that two women, who have sinc...
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Two months into the Trump administration, we are witnessing the beginnings of the greatest presidential onslaught on international law and international institutions in American history.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visits Asia as the State Department Indicates “The Pivot” is Over
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It’s been a busy 24 hours in the increasingly fascinating relationship between President Trump and the federal judiciary.
First, a federal district judge in Hawaii entered a nationwide temporary restrai...
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It’s Tuesday morning, and we’re back at Guantanamo for more pre-trial hearings in the al-Nashiri case. The defendant, the alleged mastermind behind the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, is not presen...
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Today, there is much pondering about the strength or weakness of the courts’ latest rulings on Trump's revised immigration Executive Order and prognosticating about what may happen on appeal or when the ...
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Editor's Note: This post has been updated with a paragraph concluding the day's coverage, as the transcript for the last session of the court's March 13th hearings was originally not available on the Off...
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On July 22, 2016 hackers suspected of links to the Kremlin passed thousands of emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to Wikileaks. According to the U.S. Intelligence Community, the h...
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Two federal judges have issued orders blocking enforcement of President Trump’s executive order banning travel to the United States to citizens of six majority-Muslim countries. The Washington Post repor...
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Today’s Maryland district court decision halting the revised refugee Executive Order (EO) exhibits the same marked lack of deference that undermined Wednesday’s Hawaii decision (see my post here). Judge ...
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The long-running Alien Tort Statute suit against Nestle, Archer Daniels Midland, and Cargill for allegedly aiding and abetting child slave labor in the Cote d’Ivoire—Doe v Nestle—has once again been dism...
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[This is the last in a four-part series geared toward clarifying the legal and policy confusion still engulfing Trump’s sanctuary cities executive order.
