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The Lawfare Podcast: Jack Goldsmith Talks to Former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
Jack Goldsmith sat down in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to have a conversation with former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter. They talked about Carter's time as head of the Pentagon, the challenges of conveyi... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes introduced Lawfare’s new podcast series, entitled The Report, which tells the story contained in Robert Mueller’s 448-page report. The first episode is available on al... -
Supreme Court Filings in Emergency Wall Case
On July 12, the government filed an application before the Supreme Court for a stay pending appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Trump v. Sierra Club, concerning the president’s u... -
What I Would Ask Robert Mueller
If I were a member of Congress with five minutes to question Robert Mueller, I would ask short questions drawn from the report’s executive summaries. -
House Oversight Committee Requests Information on Michael Cohen Case
On Friday, July 19 House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York requesting information related to two qu... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, alleging that the tanker violated international laws and regulations, the Wall Street Journal reports. -
Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign States and State-Owned Enterprises
Conventional wisdom and many lower court cases hold that foreign states are not entitled to constitutionally based personal jurisdiction protections in federal courts because they are not “persons” prote... -
Why is Turkey Betting on Russia?
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos. -
Introducing “The Report”: A Podcast Series from Lawfare
For the past several weeks, a group of us has been working on a project to tell the story of the Mueller Report in an accessible form. The Mueller Report tells a heck of a story, a bunch of incredible st... -
A Proposed Response to the Commercial Surveillance Emergency
The body of Jamal Khashoggi has yet to be found, and the case of his murder is littered with unanswered questions. There are a number of certainties about the gruesome crime, however, backed up by eviden... -
Sinotech: U.S. and Chinese Negotiations Make First Direct Contact Since G-20
U.S. and Chinese Negotiators Make Contact Following the G-20 Summit -
Unredacted Documents Released in Cohen Case
At the request of the district court, on July 17 the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York made public an unredacted status report and series of investigative materials relating to...
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