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Former Deputy National Security Advisor Requests Declaratory Judgment on Testimonial Immunity
Charles Kupperman, the former deputy and acting national security advisor to President Trump, is seeking declaratory judgment from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia regarding whether h... -
House Can Receive Mueller Grand Jury Materials, Court Rules
The chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia authorized the release of certain grand jury materials to the House Judiciary Committee relating to the Mueller investigation. The... -
Confidence in Government on National Security Matters: Third Quarter of 2019
In July 2017, we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. This post provides our data for the third quarter of 201... -
The Collapse of the President’s Defense
All that’s left to defenders of President Trump in Congress is to make noise. -
Nonconsensual Pornography, Political Scandals and a Warning for 2020
Amid the hubbub of L’Affaire Ukrainienne, you could be forgiven for overlooking another story that has emerged out of Congress over the past week. It’s a grubby, unpleasant story—so much so that it feels... -
Self-Dealing in Ukraine: The Core of the Impeachment Inquiry
As the Ukraine story develops, the public focus has remained largely on wrongdoing by the president outside the realm of criminal law, focusing instead on President Trump’s apparent use of his office for... -
Andrew C. McCarthy’s Unconvincing Defense of the President on Ukraine
Over at National Review, former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy has weighed in on Trump's Ukraine shenanigans and arrived at some out-of-the-box conclusions. -
Impeachment, Elections and Bad History
Law professor and former deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo this week declared, “What the framers thought was that the American people would judge a president at the time of an election. They wou... -
New Impeachment Poll: Quid Pro Quo Trouble Ahead
White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney made a stunning admission of a quid pro quo by confirming that President Donald Trump -
Clarifying the Scope of the Legal Profession’s Ethical Responsibilities: A Response to John Bies
John Bies’s Sept. 30 post (“Giuliani Cannot Rely on Attorney-Client Privilege to Avoid Congressional Testimony”) is informative but doesn’t quite explain the full scope of a lawyer’s confidentiality resp... -
National Security Highlights from the Fourth Democratic Primary Debate
On Tuesday, CNN and the New York Times hosted the fourth debate of the 2020 Democratic primary campaign, moderated by Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett and Mark Lacey. We’ve combed through the transcript fro... -
How Should the House Handle Impeachment?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is approaching a fork in the road on the House’s impeachment inquiry. The White House has indicated an unwillingness to cooperate with the inquiry, and so the House has to deci...
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