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On Tuesday, hours after the terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Donald Trump again raised the prospect of waterboarding terror suspects, asking a crowd at Ohio University “What do you think of waterboarding?”...
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The candidates’ response to the Orlando attack says something deep, not just about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but about the electorate itself.
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No U.S. presidential race has ever turned on the appeal of the candidate’s promises on intelligence policy. Indeed, many recent party platforms have either ignored altogether or addressed with vague gene...
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The New York Times's latest editorial on Guantanamo is so packed full of confused thinking and weird non-sequiturs that I want to go through its claims and logic (such as it is) line by line.
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In an event yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the House Republican's 2016 national security strategy.
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I received an email yesterday from a career Justice Department lawyer—whom I had not previously met—in connection with my recent rumination on the consequences for the Justice Department of a Donald Trum...
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It was a few years ago, on a panel at American University’s Washington College of Law, that I heard Brad Berenson—who served in the White House Counsel’s office under President Bush—make an arresting sta...
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Recently, I wrote this piece warning of what Donald Trump might do to the U.S. Department of Justice. It contained the following:
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Any law students out there who want to work on a legal research project on the powers of the presidency? [Sorry, no pay involved.]
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Dear Ed:
By any chance do you have any friends inside the IRS?
You see, it seems to me that the major part of Donald Trump's mystique is his appearance of success. Nothing can really persuade his supp...
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Ben has begun a series of posts on the prospect of a Trump Presidency and the power he might wield -- and Carrie has written a short follow up. It seems apt, therefore, to at least acknowledge one predi...
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Last week, Ben published the first in a series of posts analyzing Trump and the Powers of the American Presidency. In that post, he proposed a theory that, despite concerns that a would-be President Trum...
