As previewed by Charlie Savage in the New York Times this morning, the U.S. delegation appeared before the Committee Against Torture in Geneva today and announced a modest but important change in the U.S.

Allow me to stress an issue perhaps in the capillaries, rather than at the heart, of the ISIS AUMF debate: language in the next AUMF’s preamble. So far as I know, nobody is talking about this just yet.

Streaming video is below. As noted earlier, Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va) will give remarks on ISIS and congressional authorization; afterwards, Wilson Center Director and former Representative Jane Harman, ...

Two quick reactions to John Bellinger’s post on a new ISIL AUMF: I agree that the new Congress and not the lame duck Congress is best suited to revise the 2001 AUMF (and, in my opinion, also to put the ...

I am troubled that the two proposals for a new AUMF posted by my Lawfare colleagues (Jack, Bobby, Ben, and Matt) and by a group at Just Security -- while constructive -- would both repeal the 2001 AUMF. ...

I am a little perplexed by Steve's response to my critique of the AUMF principles he helped write. Steve accuses me of "hiding the ball." But he seems to me, rather, to be moving the goalposts.

In his post this morning, Ben identifies what he calls "flaws" with three of the six principles for a use-of-force authorization for ISIL that were introduced yesterday by a group of legal experts (that ...

By coincidence, the same day that Jack, Bobby, Matt and I released our draft AUMF text, a group associated with Just Security released a document entitled "Principles to Guide Congressional Authorization...

A few weeks ago Matthew Waxman and I ended our critical essay on President Obama’s war powers legacy by noting that “Obama’s legacy will look quite different if, after the midterm elections, he seeks and...

The final version of my article, A Rule of Lenity for National Security Surveillance Law, has been posted online at the Virginia Law Review website.   The article advocates a new approach to FISA reform:...

President Obama said last week that he wants an AUMF for the ISIL conflict, and he further stated that he wants to “right-size and update whatever authorization Congress provides to suit the current figh...

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