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The CJEU Facebook Ruling: How Bad Is It, Really?
It’s been a busy two weeks for the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Last week, the court handed down a landmark decision in favor of Google; this Thursday, Oct. 3, it released a blockbuster... -
The Volker Texts: What Quid Pro Quo Looks Like
The more information becomes public about L’Affaire Ukrainienne, the wider and deeper the controversy becomes. Late on Oct. 3, Congress released perhaps the most damning information yet: excerpts from a... -
House Chairmen Request Documents from Vice President Pence
The chairmen of three House committees—Oversight and Reform, Foreign Affairs and Intelligence—requested the production of several documents from Vice President Mike Pence related to his involvement in th... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Democratic chairmen of three House committees released dozens of text messages provided by Kurt Volker, the former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, reports NPR. The messages appear to show a plan to ti... -
The Cyberlaw Podcast: Challenging Edward Snowden
In this episode I cross swords with John Samples of the Cato Institute on Silicon Valley’s efforts to disadvantage conservative speech and what to do about it. I accuse him of Panglossian libertarianism... -
Recent Ukrainian Perspectives on the Trump-Ukraine Scandal
What is the Ukrainian media emphasizing about the scandal—and what statements are politicians, agencies and journalists making in the country on the other end of the phone line? -
Congress Releases Ukraine-Related Text Messages
Thursday evening, the chairmen of the three House Committees—Oversight and Reform, Foreign Affairs and Intelligence—released text messages provided by Kurt Volker, the former U.S. special envoy for Ukrai... -
Three Lessons From the First Time a Head of State Was Impeached
When the Framers wrote impeachment into the Constitution, they were drawing on a long history of English common law. But situated within that history, the first impeachment of a head of state had taken p... -
Call for Nominations: 2019 Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship
The Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin and Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law (ONU), in consultation with the American Association... -
Justice Department Filing in New York Trump Tax Returns Case
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) filed a statement of interest in the case involving President Trump’s challenge to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s su... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Without any prompting, President Trump called on China to “start an investigation into the Bidens” in remarks to reporters outside the White House, according to the Washington Post. This comment came aft... -
The Constitution Says ‘Bribery’ Is Impeachable. What Does That Mean?
Now that Congress has launched an impeachment investigation into President Trump’s effort to use the Ukrainian government to target a political rival, much ink has been spilled on the question of whether...
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