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Colombia’s Transitional Justice Was Built to Survive de la Espriella
It is a global model for its domestic, not international, legal origins. Future peace may be the real cost of de la Espriella’s attacks. -
Justice Department Releases Opinion on Military Arrests Near Borders
The Office of Legal Counsel asserted that arrests by military personnel near national defense areas do not violate the Posse Comitatus Act. -
Everything Trump’s Election Speech Did Not Prove
After years of searching for any scrap of evidence that suggests the 2020 election was stolen, the White House still hasn’t found it. -
Lawfare Live: Breaking Down President Trump's Primetime Address on Elections
Join the Lawfare team for a live debrief of last night's speech. -
Faithful Execution and the Removal Power
President Trump is exercising his removal power in ways that defeat his duty to faithfully execute the law. -
The Military and Elections, Part II: Deploy First, Litigate Later
Multiple statutes prohibit military involvement in elections. But are they enough? -
The Military and Elections, Part I: The Legal Wall
Multiple statutes prohibit military involvement in elections. But what do they actually say? -
Lawfare Daily: The Military, Elections, and the Law
Discussing the laws that prevent domestic deployment during elections. -
Can Government of and by API Still Be Government ‘for the People’?
Government dependence on private AI shifts policymaking from Congress and the civil service to procurement contracts—with no public input. -
What’s up with Trump’s Mail-In Voting Executive Order?
Agency actions and court decisions make it easier to understand how insidious, and how illegal, the EO will turn out to be. -
How Authoritarians Control the News
A review of Martin Moore and Thomas Colley, “Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News” (Columbia University Press 2025). -
Rational Security: The “Forbidden Fruit” Edition
Scott Anderson, Benjamin Wittes, Michael Feinberg, and Molly Roberts talked through the week’s big news in national security.
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