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Counting the Boots: Tracking Domestic Deployments, One Missing Report at a Time
A monthlong effort to track domestic deployments revealed a troubling lack of transparency on why and how military forces are used on U.S. soil. -
Oral Argument Summary: Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (Tariffs)
At stake is whether IEEPA authorizes tariff measures and, if so, whether that delegation violates constitutional principles of nondelegation. -
What’s Up With the Terror Indictment Against Alleged Antifa Members?
The Justice Department’s tacked-on charges are just for show. The larger plan is not. -
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Nov. 7
Listen to the Nov. 7 livestream as a podcast. -
More Trouble for the Comey Indictment?
Public documents may undermine a core premise underlying the charges against James Comey. -
The Situation: I’ll Wait and See on the Tariffs Case
The Supreme Court is dead to me whatever it does. -
Lawfare Daily: Supreme Court Oral Arguments on President Trump’s Tariffs
What happened at the Supreme Court on Wednesday? -
Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, Nov. 7
Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation targeting actions from President Trump. -
Are Federal Officials Immune From State Prosecution?
Contrary to recent assertions, federal officers do not have blanket immunity from criminal prosecutions brought by states. -
State Prosecutions of Federal Agents and the Presidential Pardon Power
State prosecutions of ICE agents may end up in federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power. -
Rational Security: The “Wea Culpa” Edition
This week, Scott Anderson, Benjamin Wittes, Alan Rozenshtein, and Kate Klonick talked through the week’s big national security news stories. -
U.S. Military Detention and Transfer in Its Fight Against Cartels
The recent detention and repatriation of two survivors of a U.S. military strike marks another legal evolution in the Trump administration’s claimed armed conflict with drug cartels.


