On Lawfare Daily, Roger Parloff sat down with Geoffrey Pipoly and Andrew Tauber to discuss the pair’s work in Trump v. Miot, an upcoming Supreme Court case over the Trump administration’s attempts to terminate temporary protected status for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants.
Also on Lawfare Daily, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, and Parloff to discuss the disbarment of John Eastman, the Department of Justice’s motion to drop the last Jan. 6 criminal matters, a warrant issued in the investigation of the first state criminal charges against an ICE agent, the firing of six immigration judges, and more.
Gigi Liman explained how a class-action lawsuit over an immigration roundup in Idaho that stemmed from a gambling investigation uses novel legal theories by relying on Reconstruction-era statutes, which could lead to more avenues to challenge federal immigration enforcement.
On Lawfare Live, Wittes sat down with Troy Edwards, Bower, Columbus, and Parloff to discuss updates in the Justice Department’s investigation of the ‘grand conspiracy’ against President Trump, the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and more.
Marissa Wang shared the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which accuses the prominent civil rights non-profit of engaging in a nine years’ long fraud operation and paying over $3 million in donations to informants inside violent extremist groups.
On Lawfare Daily, Quinta Jurecic and Bower joined Tyler McBrien to unpack the tenure of the Justice Department’s current head of the civil rights division, Harmeet Dhillon; her extensive social media presence; and why there may be limits to how high she can climb in the Trump administration.
Ben Evelev and Olivia Parker unpacked the arguments presented in Chatrie v. United States, a case that will be heard by the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of geofence warrants and whether such warrants constitute permissible forms of Fourth Amendment “searches.”
On Lawfare Daily, Scott R. Anderson sat down with Joel Braunold, Daniel Byman, and Mona Yacoubian to break down the recent ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel and what it may mean for their ongoing conflict, and the broader conflict with Iran.
Todd Huntley argued that—despite Trump’s initial declaration on social media platforms of plans to execute an unlawful total blockade of the Strait of Hormuz—the U.S. ultimately implemented a narrower, legally compliant blockade targeting Iranian ports. Huntley then evaluated the legality of the Trump administration’s actions in the strait, including the question of congressional authorization and international law concerns.
In the latest edition of Lawfare’s Foreign Policy Essay series, Delaney Soliday unpacked the current state of Russia-Iran relations by examining Russia’s aid to Iran in its current conflict with the U.S. and Israel and Moscow’s motivations in the partnership.
Tom Ellison explained how the convergence of the Iran war and the El Niño weather pattern in June will significantly exacerbate global energy, food, and geopolitical instability. Ellison contended that while the conflict has already disrupted oil, gas, and fertilizer markets, El Niño-driven extreme weather—including heat, drought, and flooding—will intensify these shocks, worsening supply chains and humanitarian crises.
Rebecca Crootof argued that recent civilian casualties from U.S. strikes are primarily the result of flawed Pentagon decision-making processes, rather than the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Crootof contended that the real failure lies in the Department of Defense’s abandonment of prior civilian harm mitigation policies, its resistance to external accountability, and a broader cultural shift prioritizing efficiency and lethality.
Poorvika Mehra and Katherine Tomaszewski argued that the Trump administration's expansive application of the terrorist group designation to drug cartels and gangs opens the door for an overbroad use of executive power, enables militarized responses and legal overreach, and undermines the rule of law in counterterrorism frameworks.
Amichai Cohen and Yuval Shany unpacked the context and provisions of Israel’s new law that extends the application of the death penalty to people convicted of murder carried out with the goal of denying the existence of the state of Israel. Cohen and Shany explained how the law represents a major break from Israel’s longstanding near-abolitionist practice by not only expanding capital punishment, but also weakening due process protections in potentially discriminatory ways.
Yelena Biberman reviewed Jenny Huangfu Day’s new book, “Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, and Political Crimes in Modern China,” which presents a narrative of British imperialism in China and models of rebellion against colonial rule. Biberman described how Britain’s “political offense exception” created conditional safe havens for Chinese rebels and served as an example of extradition law that reflects state power, rather than neutral liberal principles.
On Lawfare Daily, McBrien sat down with Lawrence Douglas to discuss the latter’s new book, “The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice,” and unpack how and why international criminal justice shifted from a focus on the crime of aggression to an “atrocity paradigm.”
In the latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, Tom Uren unpacked an ongoing French criminal investigation into illegal content on X and sexual abuse material created by the Grok AI chatbot, the debates over the congressional reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s Section 702, and more.
Erica D. Lonergan and Mark Montgomery explained why the Pentagon’s “Cybercom 2.0” initiative, which is aimed at improving cyber force generation through new authorities and organizations, cannot fully solve the military’s cyber readiness and talent problems. Instead, the duo wrote the initiative should serve as a foundation—rather than a substitute—for establishing an independent cyber force.
On Scaling Laws, Kevin Frazier sat down with Scott Sullivan to discuss how AI diffusion in the military challenges prevailing AI governance frameworks, what current military deployments reveal about the trajectory of AI adoption, and whether existing legal and policy tools can keep up with the pace of technological integration.
Anat Lior argued that imposing a negligence-based duty to warn or protect against foreseeable harm on AI chatbot companies would clarify company liability and resolve tensions between privacy interests and safety concerns, especially as these platforms increasingly encounter users exhibiting dangerous behavior.
On Scaling Laws, Gavin McCormick joined Frazier to discuss how AI and satellite imagery are lifting the veil on the “black box” of global greenhouse gas emissions. They also discussed the legal implications of “radical transparency,” how AI-driven data can be used to enforce regulations and measure claims, and the myths and facts of AI’s environmental consequences.
And that was the week that was.
