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Sunsetting the AUMF: Rep. Schiff's Proposal

Steve Vladeck, Jennifer Daskal
Monday, June 10, 2013, 12:54 PM
Pardon the interruption from all-things-surveillance, but pursuant to our back and forth with Bobby, Jack, Matt, and Ben on the merits of a new AUMF, Representative Adam Schiff, a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee, is planning to introduce legislation tomorrow that we think is worth taking a look at.  It sunsets a repeal of the AUMF at the end of 2014, and explicitly asks the administration
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Pardon the interruption from all-things-surveillance, but pursuant to our back and forth with Bobby, Jack, Matt, and Ben on the merits of a new AUMF, Representative Adam Schiff, a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee, is planning to introduce legislation tomorrow that we think is worth taking a look at.  It sunsets a repeal of the AUMF at the end of 2014, and explicitly asks the administration to come back and let Congress know what, if any, additional authorities are needed to fill any resulting gap...
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Steve Vladeck

Steve Vladeck

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Steve Vladeck is a professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. A 2004 graduate of Yale Law School, Steve clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon on the Ninth Circuit and Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Eleventh Circuit. In addition to serving as a senior editor of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, Steve is also the co-editor of Aspen Publishers’ leading National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law casebooks.
Jennifer Daskal

Jennifer Daskal

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Jen Daskal is a Partner at Venable LLP. She is a national security legal and policy expert, with years of experience managing crisis, mitigating risk, and working at the intersection of technology, policy and law. From October 2023 to January 2025, Daskal was the Deputy Homeland Security Advisor at the White House. She also previously served as the Principal Deputy Legal Advisor at the National Security Council, Acting General Counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, and counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Department of Justice. She has written extensively on issues of data security and data privacy, testified multiple times before Congress, and published numerous journal articles and op-eds.
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