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Israel's Proposed ‘Facebook Bill’
From 2015 to 2016, Israel experienced a wave of terror, dubbed the “knife intifada,” in which 47 Israelis were murdered. According to Israeli security sources, a majority of the attacks were carried out ... -
Fact and Fiction About the Amendment of the Israeli Supreme Court’s Jurisdiction Over West Bank Cases
The Israeli legislature has taken another step toward blurring the lines distinguishing the Israeli legal system from the one that exists in the West Bank. The Knesset recently passed an amendment that t... -
The Week That Will Be
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How the Latest Trump Tower Tweet Damages the President’s Legal Defense
In a previous post, I discussed how a competent lawyer would have responded to a campaign’s proposal that it accept a foreign government’s offer to help with the campaign. The lawyer, I wrote, would have... -
Trade War Battles: Congress Reconsiders Its Role
After many months of the executive branch taking action against U.S. trading partners, Congress is starting to push back. -
Can the Senate Constrain the President on NATO and Russia?
Editor’s Note: Trump's destruction of U.S. alliances and coddling of Moscow is alarming enough, but even more distressing is the apparent complacency of many powerful Republicans. This may be changing. M... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
The trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort began on Tuesday in the Eastern District of Virginia. Autumn Brewington explained the charges against Manafort and the potential implications of t... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Fighting Deep Fakes
Technologies that distort representations of reality, like audio, photo, and video editing software, are nothing new, but what happens when these technologies are paired with artificial intelligence to p... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Senior intelligence officials described Russian interference as an ongoing threat to the United States during a Thursday press briefing at the White house, according to the Wall Street Journal. Director ... -
Confidence in Government on National Security Matters: July 2018
A year ago, we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. This post provides our data for the month of July 2018. -
Brett Kavanaugh's Failure to Acknowledge the Changes in Communications Technology: The Implications for Privacy
Facebook became available to the general public in 2006; Apple's smartphone was announced the following year. In little over a decade, the devices, and the communications they engender, have become ubiqu... -
If Assange Leaves the Ecuadorian Embassy, What Next?
WikiLeaks founder and CEO Julian Assange might be nearing his final days in Ecuador’s London embassy, where he’s lived and worked since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden for rape charges or, potentia
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