Who says that bipartisanship is dead and that our legislative process doesn't work.  For those who despair in all cases, take note today of the joint effort by Senators Leahy and Lee to update the Electr...

The more I reflect on last week's drone contretemps--and what effect the efforts of Senator Paul and his followers has had / may still have on U.S. policy--the more I have a profound and distressing sens...

I'm not at all happy that today's news out of upstate New York proves the point that Jack and I (and a cast of dozens) have tried to make about domestic use of lethal force, but it's worth pointing out t...

Recall that Senator Paul asked John Brennan whether he believed the President “has the authority to order lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without a trial?,”...

In its latest transparency report published this week, Google began sharing very general data about the number of National Security Letters (NSLs) it receives from the FBI or other government agencies se...

Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law writes in with the following comments on yesterday's Clapper decision: The Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday in Clapper v. Amnesty International reads at fi...

As Wells reported, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA this morning.

Here's an update on the status of Section 11 of the STOCK Act, the law enacted last year that would have required 28,000 senior executive officials (and senior military officers) to post their financial ...

Recent events have accelerated a discussion focused around creating a special court to oversee the execution of targeted killings against suspected terrorists.

There's been a fair amount of buzz over the past few days centered around the idea of a statutory "drone court"--a tribunal modeled after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) that would (pr...

There is an increasing amount of talk about judicial review for at least some decisions to place specific persons on targeting lists for the use of lethal force outside of a combat zone (drones are not t...