This morning, the president tweeted: Wow, looks like James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton long before the investigation was over...and so much more. A rigged system!

Last month the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed the Department of State Authorities Act, Fiscal Year 2018, part of which would effect a major change in the law of foreign affairs appointments. W...

Last December, Congress passed the Military Justice Act of 2016, which then-President Barack Obama subsequently signed.

Last Tuesday, the New York Times published a foggy story noting that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell "has mused about whether Mr. Trump will be in a position to lead the Republican Party into next...

President Trump issued his pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio apparently without a Justice Department recommendation or even consultation, according to various outlets citing unnamed officials. It is a ...

On our Foreign Policy feed, we explain how the law protects the President's ability to start a nuclear war. The article begins:

Lately, I’ve been musing on Robert Bolt’s portrayal of Richard Rich in "A Man for All Seasons." It tells the story of Sir Thomas More, the former lord chancellor to King Henry VIII who, ultimately, was p...

In March of last year, before Donald Trump was officially the Republican nominee for president, I raised on this site what I described as “a question I think [Lawfare] readers . . . need to consider seri...

It never meant much that in the statement he delivered from the White House about Charlottesville, President Trump trudged to a mike and checked the teleprompting box. He has always chosen to govern by t...

One year ago this month, I and 49 other former national security officials who had served in senior positions in Republican administrations released a statement saying that Donald Trump “would be a dange...

As Americans gathered to watch James Comey testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, a meme emerged on certain corners of the left-leaning internet: people had a crush on the former FBI director....

A new lawsuit filed in federal district court in the District of Columbia on behalf of five transgender servicemembers challenges President Trump’s apparent reversal of the military’s transgender service...