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The Trump Administration and Executive Power: Evidence from Justice Department Views Letters
The executive branch has several ways of asserting exclusive presidential powers. Presidential signing statements, memoranda from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), legal briefs—these are well-studied to... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York subpoenaed documents and records from President Donald Trump’s inauguration committee, including information on its funding, benefi... -
Last Week at the Military Commissions: Defense Teams Assert Conflict in Session Cut Short by Medical Emergency
On Jan. 28 and 29, the military commission in United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, et al. (the 9/11 military commission) reconvened for pretrial proceedings, picking up from its November sitting. The... -
The Lawfare Podcast Shorts: Why the FBI Sent So Many Agents to Roger Stone’s Home
In the wake of Roger Stone’s arrest on Jan. 25, 2019, Chuck Rosenberg, a longtime U.S. federal law enforcement official, explained on Lawfare why the tactics used during the arrest were wholly appropriate. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Iraqi President Barham Salih rebuffed President Donald Trump’s proposal to keep U.S. troops in Iraq to monitor Iranian activity in the region, the Washington Post reports. -
Water Wars: Search and Rescue
China’s state-owned Xinhua News has reported the opening of a maritime rescue facility on Yongshu Reef (Fiery Cross Reef), one of the artificial islands it has built in the Spratly Islands region of the ... -
Developing an Objective, Repeatable Scoring System for a Vulnerability Equities Process
The public release of the Vulnerability Equities Process (VEP) charter by the White House in late 2017 went a long way toward satisfying the public’s curiosity about the secretive, high-profile and conte... -
The Week That Will Be
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The Stockholm Agreement and Yemen’s Other Wars
Editor’s Note: Yemen's deadly civil war and associated humanitarian catastrophe have dragged on for years. At the end of 2018, however, the country saw what seemed like a bit of good news: successful neg... -
Why the FBI Sent So Many Agents to Roger Stone’s Home
Roger Stone says that more than two dozen FBI agents executed a search warrant at his house. That’s generally consistent with the bureau’s standard operating procedure. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Herb Lin and Amy Zegart on 'Bytes, Bombs, and Spies'
Last week, as part of the Hoover Institution’s Security by the Book series, Jack Goldsmith spoke with Herb Lin and Amy Zegart, co-directors of the Stanford Cyber Policy Program. -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and the leaders of the CIA, NSA, FBI, DIA, and NGIA testified on Tuesday before the Senate intelligence committee on worldwide threats. Matthew Kahn shared the...
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