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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Gordon Ahl

Saturday, September 14, 2019, 10:38 AM

This week at Lawfare, Molly E. Reynolds and Margaret Taylor explained the contents of the House Judiciary Committee’s resolution proposing investigative procedures for an impeachment investigation of President Trump. They suggested the procedures added formality to the investigation but did not necessarily constitute an inflection point for the larger impeachment movement.

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On a related note, Jen Patja Howell shared another episode of The Lawfare Podcast focused entirely on Congress and their developing impeachment investigation and ongoing court cases.

Meanwhile, Michael J. Glennon and Charles Tiefer <a /articles>considered</a> how Congress could use the appropriations power as a check on forever wars by creating a procedure to compel the president to seek military funds only where Congress has not banned action. Strange news surfaced this week regarding the Justice Department's case against former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes <a /articles>examined the possibilities</a> of what might have gone on behind closed doors at the McCabe grand jury. This week also marked the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Bruce Reidel <a /articles>described </a>U.S. success against al-Qaeda and the ongoing needs to remain vigilant to prevent al-Qaeda and other terrorists from achieving their goals. Asfandyar Mir <a /articles>discussed</a> the perception in U.S. policy circles that al-Qaeda is declining as a primary threat: this mentality is wrong, he argues, as al-Qaeda is reconstructing its capabilities and maintains ambitions of fighting the United States. On the National Security Law Podcast, Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck <a /articles>discussed</a> current counterterrorism laws that would have been the biggest surprise in 2001. <iframe width="924.545px" src="https://player.blubrry.com/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fnational_security_law_podcast%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fnational_security_law_podcast%2FNSL_Episode_135.mp3&podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalsecuritylawpodcast.com%2Fepisode-135-do-you-hear-the-podcast-sing%2F#darkOrLight-light&shownotes-ffffff&shownotesBackground-444444&download-ffffff&downloadBackground-003366&subscribe-ffffff&subscribeBackground-fb8c00&share-ffffff&shareBackground-1976d2" scrolling="no" id="blubrryplayer-2" height="138px" frameborder="0" class="blubrryplayer"/> On a related note, Emma DiNapoli, Rachael Hanna, Patrick McDonnell and Jacques Singer-Emery <a /articles>provided</a> updates from August on the military commission trying alleged al-Qaeda commander Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi. Jacques Singer-Emery <a /articles>summarized</a> the decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Elhady v. Kable, in which plaintiffs challenged the government’s management of the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), or “watchlist.” The judge concluded that the process of placing people on the TSDB deprived them of their liberty interests, but requested supplemental briefings to address remedies. Mikhaila Fogel <a /articles>posted</a> an order by U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to restore the nationwide scope of the injunction against the Trump adminsistration's new rule sharply limiting asylum applications. But the Supreme Court then intervened to stay the injunction—and Peter Margulies <a /articles>examined</a> the reasons the justices may have had for this ruling On this week’s episode of Rational Security, <a /articles>posted</a> by Howell, the discussion centered on John Bolton’s exit from the Trump administration, the CIA’s extraction of a Russian asset who was spying for the United States and Trump’s Middle East peace negotiator leaving his post. <iframe width="100%" webkitallowfullscreen="" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/11219318/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" oallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" height="90" allowfullscreen=""/> Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an additional episode of The Lawfare Podcast, in which Taylor and Scott Anderson spoke with reporters Colum Lynch and Robbie Gramer of Foreign Policy magazine. They discussed the latest developments inside the U.S. State Department including career official resignations due to disagreements with Trump administration policies. <iframe width="100%" webkitallowfullscreen="" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/11072288/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" oallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" height="90" allowfullscreen=""/> Jurecic <a /articles>posted</a> a second bonus episode of Lawfare's podcast The Report. This episode covers some of the Lawfare team’s favorite stories from Volume I of the Mueller Report that had not made it into the podcast thus far, including bizarre connections with Olympic weightlifters, Donald Trump, Jr. potentially pleading the Fifth and Michael Flynn’s work with the Turkish government. <iframe width="924.545px" src="https://player.pippa.io/the-report/episodes/bonus-the-bodybuilder-the-son-the-turkish-plot?theme=default&cover=1&latest=1" height="110px" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay"/>Stewart Baker <a /articles>posted</a> the latest episode of The Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, focusing on Chinese exploitation of the bankruptcy courts and DHS’s plan to use fake identities to view public social media postings. <iframe width="100%" webkitallowfullscreen="" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/11185775/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" oallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" height="90" allowfullscreen=""/> In Lawfare’s biweekly summary of U.S.-China tech policy news, Rachel Brown and Preston Lim <a /articles>write</a> about the obstacles surrounding the resumption of trade talks and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to China, which highlighted the global impact of the bilateral trade disputes. Lim also <a /articles>described</a> the foreign policy debates likely to gain relevance in Canada as elections approach. Moving south, Vishnu Kannan <a /articles>provided</a> a list of national security-related highlights from this week's U.S. Democratic debate. Giovanna De Maio <a /articles>explained</a> how Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italy’s popular far-right League Party, came to power and how he can exploit being in the minority now to regain popularity. Kemal Kirisci and Gokce Uysal Kolasin <a /articles>analyzed</a> the situation of Syrian refugees in Turkey and how to integrate them with agricultural reforms to the Turkish economy. And Leti Volpp <a /articles>reviewed</a> Jeffrey S. Kahn’s “Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire.” And that was the week that was.

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Gordon Ahl is a senior at Georgetown University, studying international politics. He is an intern at Lawfare and the Brookings Institution.

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