Editor's Note: This post contains the text of a speech that former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson is delivering this hour at the Oxford Union, March 8, 2017. *** Thank you for that introdu...

On Monday, the New York Police Department agreed to a revised class action settlement that it hopes will put to rest litigation surrounding the Department’s surveillance of Muslims.

Nick Weaver wins the prize for rapid response, but a few additional observations might be helpful. First, I echo Nick’s observation that it’s hardly a surprise that the CIA has a bunch of its own hackin...

With all eyes focused on the new executive order, the Trump Administration may have snuck in the beginnings of another controversial policy shift severely restricting immigration to the United States.

It is now almost Lawfare tradition that when interesting classified technical documents are dumped, I take advantage of my lack of security clearance to do an initial analysis. (I’ll leave for another da...

The revised refugee Executive Order (EO) issued today (see revised EO here and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fact sheet here) places the administration in a materially better legal position.

The New York Times is striking a note of befuddled agnosticism as to the tonal difference between the rollout of the original executive order on refugees and visas back in January and that of the revised...

This morning, President Trump signed a new executive order implementing a temporary travel ban from six Muslim majority countries and a temporary suspension of the Refugee Admission Program.

President Trump signed a revised executive order restricting entry into the United States from six majority-Muslim nations this morning. The text of the order is available below and on the White House we...

On February 21st, twenty-five year old Robert Lorenzo Hester, Jr. was charged in federal district court in the Western District of Missouri with attempting to provide material support to ISIL. Hester is ...

There has been growing legal, policy, and academic attention to the topic of Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA), the mechanisms for evidence held in one country to be provided to a different country for law e...

The Washington Post’s Matt Zapotosky has reported on forthcoming revisions of President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) on refugees that place the administration in a materially better legal position.