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| 03.09.2026 | Toddler Killed at Iranian Wedding: Red Crescent Files First-Ever ICC Claim Against US Military | By Kyle Belmonte
Published: Sep 03 2026, 5:59 AM EDT
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| 13.08.2026 | Texas Prosecutors Are Trying To Turn A Teenage Shooting Spree Into A Terrorism Case | This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
For decades, terrorism researchers have generally distinguished terrorism from other forms of violence by one defining feature: t... |
| 06.08.2026 | Haiti TPS Formally Ends as Courts Lose Power to Protect Any TPS Holders | By Jackie Manning
Published: Aug 06 2026, 11:24 AM EDT
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| 01.08.2026 | Iran’s Proven Energy Retaliation Playbook Has Cost $58B: Power Grid Strikes Risk Round Two | By Devin Culbertson
Published: Aug 01 2026, 1:53 PM EDT
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| 31.07.2026 | Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department For “Unlawful,” “Unethical” And “Unseemly” Conduct | This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.
Across the country, federal judges are calling out Department of Justice lawyers, questioning in unprecedented ways whether they can be trusted ... |
| 29.07.2026 | Trump Admin’s Campaign Against ‘Radical Left Terrorism’ Is Built On A National Security Memo With No Congressional Approval | This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
A little-noticed presidential national security directive is now the legal engine behind a wave of terrorism prosecutions against... |
| 29.07.2026 | Iran Ends Ceasefire and Three Fed Hawks Dissent, Driving Dow to Worst Session Since April | By Clayton Lewis
Published: Jul 29 2026, 9:09 PM EDT
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| 28.07.2026 | Iran Demands Control Over Both Strait of Hormuz Lanes, Rejects Oman’s Voluntary-Fee Plan | By Scott McCain
Published: Jul 28 2026, 9:19 PM EDT
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| 24.07.2026 | House Passes $1.15T NDAA; War Powers Votes Signal Senate Standoff Has No Easy Exit | By Clayton Lewis
Published: Jul 24 2026, 7:34 AM EDT
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| 22.07.2026 | Taiwan Cuts Mobile Data to Near-Zero for 16 Million in First-Ever War-Readiness Drill | By Mark Rutherford
Published: Jul 22 2026, 2:13 PM EDT
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| 20.07.2026 | Pentagon Official: US Lacks Missiles to Safely Sustain Iran Air Campaign | By Jerry Owens
Published: Jul 20 2026, 2:36 PM EDT
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| 04.05.2026 | Trump flexes executive power with unprecedented flouting of lower court rulings | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By SUDHIN THANAWALA
When a federal judge shot down a Trump administration policy of holding immigrants without bond last December, it seemed like a serious blow to the president’s mass deportation ... |
| 17.04.2026 | Inside Trump’s Effort To “Take Over” The Midterm Elections | This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.
In mid-December 2020, federal officials responsible for protecting American elections from fraud converged in a windowless, dim, fortified room ... |
| 14.04.2026 | Justice Department fires 4 prosecutors accused of bias against anti-abortion activists | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration fired four Justice Department prosecutors involved in cases against anti-abortion activists, accusing the Biden administration on ... |
| 07.04.2026 | «Самолет судного дня» США поднялся в небо: ждать ли ядерных ударов | В понедельник источники, отслеживающие передвижения военной авиации, зафиксировали: самолет судного дня Boeing E-4B Nightwatch взлетел с базы Оффутт в Небраске (там же расположено стратегическое командование США) и после серии маневров благ... |
| 06.04.2026 | Escalation in the Gulf: US-Iran Conflict Nears Breaking Point | The US-Iran conflict intensifies. President Trump threatens Iran's vital infrastructure, including bridges, power plants, and oil facilities. Iran escalates with attacks on Gulf states and a tanker, effectively closing the crucial Strait of... |
| 03.04.2026 | Trump threatens to destroy Iranian infrastructure, saying its government ‘knows what has to be done’ | Donald Trump threatened Iranian bridges and power plants as rhetoric escalated.
His words come as a recently constructed bridge near Tehran was destroyed in an airstrike.
China, Russia and France vetoed a resolution calling for military act... |
| 08.03.2026 | ‘Destruction is not the same as political success’: US bombing of Iran shows little evidence of endgame strategy (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Farah N. Jan
Shortly after the opening salvo of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026 – with missiles targeting cities across the country, some of which killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah A... |
| 26.02.2026 | DOJ’s Losing Streak Continues Because Federal Officers Just Can’t Stop Lying | I’ll take my joy where I can. And this iteration of the Trump DOJ continues to provide bright bursts of schadenfreude-tinted sunshine.
Any competent DOJ can close cases. Any barely competent prosecutor can push a case past a grand jury. Any... |
| 31.01.2026 | Trump's Global Shake-Up: Allies Reel, NATO Fractures, and a New World Order Emerges | President Trump's relentless pursuit of Greenland has shattered transatlantic unity. His "America First" doctrine profoundly strained the NATO alliance. This audacious move, viewed as unconstitutional and violating international l... |
| 26.01.2026 | Trump claims he ‘won’t use force’ to seize Greenland, but he still may shatter NATO (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
As many as 85 million deaths were caused by World War II, including more than 400,000 U.S. service members. It was the largest and deadliest conflict in history, involving more than 70 countries.
O... |
| 13.01.2026 | Plane used in boat strike off Venezuela was painted to look like a civilian aircraft, AP sources say | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By LISA MASCARO and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The plane used by the U.S. military to strike a boat accused of smuggling drugs off the coast of Venezuela last fall was p... |
| 28.10.2025 | Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Ordered To Explain Why Personally Violated A Court Order On Force Usage | Gregory Bovino probably only answers to two people. The first person would be himself. If he wants to do it, he does it, no matter what the actual chain of command is.
Note the date: January 7. Trump had already been elected but was not yet... |
| 06.10.2025 | Trump and Hegseth’s blundering show for military brass (Editorial) | President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wasted a lot of the military’s money and the valuable time of nearly 1,000 top offices of the armed forces who were ordered to leave their posts around the world and convene at a bas... |
| 21.09.2025 | Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up | By Emily Scherer for The 19th
Last October, a 13-year-old boy in Wisconsin used a picture of his classmate celebrating her bat mitzvah to create a deepfake nude he then shared on Snapchat.
This is not an isolated incident. Over the past few... |
| 24.07.2025 | You Shouldn’t Have To Make Your Social Media Public To Get A Visa | The Trump administration is continuing its dangerous push to surveil and suppress foreign students’ social media activity. The State Department recently announced an unprecedented new requirement that applicants for student and exchange vis... |
| 14.05.2025 | Trump Administration’s Targeting Of International Students Jeopardizes Free Speech And Privacy Online | The federal government is using social media surveillance to target student visa holders living in the United States for online speech the Trump administration disfavors. The administration has initiated this new program, called “Catch and ... |
| 06.05.2025 | The Fertility Frontier: Navigating the Complex Landscape of IVF Access in America | In the United States, the quest for family-building through in vitro fertilization (IVF) resembles a marathon through a dense forest. The path is fraught with obstacles, from political resistance to financial burdens. As the nation grapples... |
| 04.05.2025 | Opinion: Rick Baldoz: From the Chinese Exclusion Act to pro-Palestinian activists: The evolution of politically motivated deportations | I’m a historian of immigration, U.S. empire and Asian American studies. The current removal orders targeting student activists echo America’s long and lamentable past of jailing and expelling immigrants because of their race or what they sa... |
| 27.03.2025 | 2025 Environmental and Social Developments | 2025 is off to a fast start with several changes in the legal landscape of the environmental and social (E&S) categories of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance). This alert highlights key E&S developments thus far in 2025, in... |
| 24.03.2025 | Contempt Of Court | I think lots of people know the kind of person who thinks they’re more clever than they really are. The kind of person who thinks that they can outwit the system by playing stupid games. The kind of person who thinks that this kind of beati... |
| 24.03.2025 | A Win For Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate | In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutted end-to-end encryption in the name of ... |
| 21.03.2025 | It’s A Start: Musk And DOGE Take Their First Real Hit | It is nearly impossible to keep up with all the litigation challenging all the terrible, if not also lawless and unconstitutional, things the Trump Administration is doing. But one group of cases is particularly interesting: the cases invol... |
| 16.02.2025 | Commentary | Opinion: Maya Sen: Why federal courts are unlikely to save democracy from Trump’s and Musk’s attacks | By Maya Sen
State governments, community groups, advocacy nonprofits and regular Americans have filed a large and growing number of federal lawsuits opposing President Donald Trump’s barrage of executive orders and policy statements. Some o... |
| 13.02.2025 | At Last, DOGE And Musk Are Finally Named In A Lawsuit, Albeit “Officially” | Given that there does not seem to have been a single thing Trump has done since entering office that has been legal, nor has his lackey Musk (or is it Trump that’s the lackey…?), there is not a single thing that doesn’t require litigation t... |
| 06.02.2025 | How To See Through Musk’s Truth Distortions: A Mirror Doesn’t Lie | A mirror returns exactly what stands before it. No amount of wealth can bribe it, no volume of threats can intimidate it, no technological innovation can reprogram it. A billionaire’s reflection shows the same unaltered truth as a beggar’s.... |
| 17.01.2025 | Editorials | Editorial: The special counsel’s pursuit of Trump’s election crimes ran out of time | This process has been a percolating in the news and political sphere for so long that the significance of the underlying acts has dulled in the public consciousness, but let’s restate plainly what we’re talking about here: a now-incoming U.... |
| 10.01.2025 | Editorials | Editorial: A peaceful election certification stands in sharp contrast to the Trump-fueled chaos of Jan. 6, 2021 | Amazingly, Trump used the insurrection — which he called a “day of love” — to peddle the lies, conspiracy theories and grievances that helped fuel his looming return to the Oval Office.
In two weeks, Trump will take the oath of office as th... |
| 16.12.2024 | UN Cybercrime Treaty: A Trojan Horse For Transnational Repression | This week, the United Nations General Assembly is set to adopt the UN Cybercrime Convention, almost exactly five years after it approved a resolution to launch its negotiation. The Convention text has been widely panned by digital security ... |
| 18.11.2024 | National Politics | Trump’s criminal conviction won’t stop him from getting security clearance as president | This dilemma is one that I, as a law professor who teaches and writes about secrecy and who earlier in my career handled classified information while working for the U.S. intelligence community and a U.S. Senate committee, would never have ... |
| 09.06.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Karrin Vasby Anderson: Trump’s rhetoric is designed to distract, stoke fear and ease the way for an anti-democratic strongman
By Karrin Vasby Anderson | By Karrin Vasby Anderson
After a jury convicted Donald Trump of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a politically damaging relationship, he responded by warning viewers of his post-verdict news conference: “If they c... |
| 24.05.2024 | All Eyes on The Hague: The ICC Prosecutor’s Move against Hamas and Israeli Leaders | On 20 May, Karim Khan, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), announced that he had “reasonable grounds to believe” that senior leaders of Hamas and Israel have committed a range of war crimes and crimes against humanity sinc... |
| 10.05.2024 | U.S. weapons may have been used in ways "inconsistent" with international law in Gaza, U.S. assessment says | Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered to Congress on Friday a highly anticipated report on the Israeli military's operations in Gaza that accused Israeli forces of potentially violating international humanitarian law but did not forma... |
| 06.04.2024 | Don't expect the Mayorkas impeachment trial to last long | Politics Don't expect the Mayorkas impeachment trial to last long
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| 22.02.2024 | The U.N. Is No Longer a Center of Gravity in Ukraine’s Diplomatic War | The United Nations General Assembly and Security Council will convene Friday to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine. Roughly a dozen European foreign ministers are scheduled to be in New York for the occasion... |
| 13.02.2024 | Donald Trump spent over $52 million in PAC donor money on legal fees last year. Here's where it all went. | Law Donald Trump spent over $52 million in PAC donor money on legal fees last year. Here's where it all went.
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| 27.01.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Trudy Rubin: If Israel is accused of genocide, why not Russia? | By Trudy Rubin
If Israel is being charged with genocide at the International Court of Justice, why isn’t Russia?
This is a question I find very troubling. Despite harsh critiques of the civilian carnage in Gaza caused by Israel’s bombs — of... |
| 09.01.2024 | Where the legal debate stands on whether Trump can pardon himself | Whether a U.S. president can pardon himself has remained an open question in American politics for decades, but it could be answered if former President Trump is convicted of a federal crime and again wins the presidency.
Why it matters: Tr... |
| 09.12.2023 | A Trojan Horse in a House Intel Committee Bill Massively Expands FISA 702 Surveillance | Snuck into bill is text that could conscript a huge range of businesses for mass surveillance
Tucked away near the end of the bill the House Intelligence Committee reported on December 7 (H.R. 6611, the “HPSCI bill”) is a provision that wou... |
| 05.11.2023 | Editorials | Views from the nation’s press | The New York Daily News on how House Speaker Mike Johnson does wrong by Israel and Ukraine:
Israel, under attack from murderous Hamas terrorists, needs American financial and military support, even as the beleaguered civilian population of ... |
| 28.08.2023 | UK Government Serves Up Possibly-Illegal Amendments To The Investigatory Powers Act | For years, the UK government has sought to expand its surveillance powers. And, for years, it has rarely been prevented from doing so. Sure, there’s been a bunch of bureaucratic inactivity and unforced errors (like Brexit) that make it a bi... |
| 08.08.2023 | Trump trap: Long list of witnesses includes his inner circle | Potential witnesses at former President Trump's criminal trials could include his vice president and now-rival for the GOP nomination, the chair of the Republican National Committee, one of Trump's own lawyers and at least seven current adv... |
| 03.08.2023 | How frozen Russian assets could pay to rebuild Ukraine | The U.S. and Europe have a $300 billion problem: What to do with the Russian central bank assets that Western governments froze back in February 2022.
Why it matters: Western leaders are under enormous pressure to redeploy these funds for t... |
| 29.06.2023 | Is Your Data Insider-Proof? Five Steps To Keep Your Secrets Safe | Co-Founder and CEO of Varonis, responsible for leading the management, strategic direction and execution of the company. |
| 16.06.2023 | Debunking Trump’s Witch Hunt Theory | Former President Donald Trump surrendered himself on Tuesday to authorities at Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Miami, Florida, to face charges in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against him. Those charges are a culminati... |
| 13.06.2023 | Trump, Facing the Fight of His Life, Could Get 20 Years in Prison | What kind of prison sentence would former President Donald Trump get if he’s convicted in the Espionage Act case against him in Miami, Florida? It depends. But the short answer is perhaps about 20 years, give or take a decade, according to ... |
| 09.06.2023 | What International Humanitarian Law Says About the Nova Kakhovka Dam | On June 6, a Ukrainian dam in Russian-occupied Kherson suffered a massive breach, draining the enormous Kakhovka reservoir into the surrounding region at a rapid rate and reportedly “fully destroy[ing]” the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plan... |
| 08.06.2023 | The Uncertainty of the Black Sea Grain Agreement: A Counterresponse | In his recent response to my piece on Lawfare about the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI and also referred to as the Grain Deal), Gregory Novak—with the support and endorsement of Helmut Aust—laid out thought-provoking and useful observatio... |
| 15.05.2023 | The FISA Section 702 Debate Intensifies | In 2008, Congress amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by adding Section 702, allowing the U.S. government to acquire critically important intelligence from foreign targets using U.S. telecommunications services. As Dire... |
| 09.05.2023 | The Black Sea Grain Initiative and the Law of Treaties: A Response | In a recent piece on Lawfare, Mykhailo Soldatenko offered an insightful analysis of the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI), as well as the separate memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Russia and the United Nations (UN) Secretariat. It ... |
| 01.05.2023 | Countermeasures and the Confiscation of Russian Central Bank Assets | Editor’s Note: This piece is adapted from the author’s forthcoming law review article on central bank immunity.
As the terrible war in Ukraine grinds on, there is growing pressure on the Group of Seven (G-7) to use frozen Russian central ba... |
| 21.04.2023 | The Black Sea Grain Deal: Fragile Cooperation Between Ukraine and Russia | On March 18, after tedious negotiations accompanied by threats from Russia to abandon the deal, the Black Sea Grain Initiative between Ukraine, Russia, and Turkey—otherwise known as the Grain Deal—was extended for the second time. When the ... |
| 14.04.2023 | Why Divergent Civil Society and Military Approaches Matter for CHMR-AP Implementation | In a previous Lawfare article, I explained that a balanced approach is vitally important as the Department of Defense moves forward with implementing the recently published Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan (CHMR-AP). The sc... |
| 05.04.2023 | The details alleged in Trump's historic indictment point to a complicated and shaky case, 5 former prosecutors say | Former U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at the Manhattan Criminal Court on April 4, 2023. Kena Betancur/Getty Images
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| 05.04.2023 | China brokering a deal between the Saudis and Iran is a message for the US: Change your strategy or get left behind | A Tehran newspaper reporting on the China-brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia on March 11. ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images
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| 25.03.2023 | Judge threatens to report lawyers for disciplinary action for slowing jailed 1/6 defendant's case | A federal judge in Washington, D.C., is threatening to report two attorneys for possible disciplinary action for delaying the trial of a man who has been jailed on charges that he assaulted police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, assault o... |
| 24.03.2023 | The Manhattan DA's likely case against Trump would be far from a 'slam dunk conviction' | Former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he lands at Quad City International Airport en route to Iowa on Monday, March 13, 2023. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images
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| 16.03.2023 | Mexico takes another step toward its authoritarian past | As Mexico’s Senate celebrated the passage of a bill designed to curb the power of the National Electoral Institute (INE), the non-partisan and independent agency that oversees elections, the country took another step backward toward its dec... |
| 09.03.2023 | The Global South and the Ukraine War at the UN | On 23 February, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling for “a comprehensive, just and lasting peace” between Russia and Ukraine. While 141 of the Assembly’s 193 members voted in favour of the text – which was timed to mark the ... |
| 02.03.2023 | Unpacking Biden’s Conventional Arms Transfer Policy | Nearly a year and a half after Reuters first reported the expected release of the Biden administration’s conventional arms transfer (CAT) policy, the CAT is out of the bag. On Feb. 23, the White House announced the release of its long-antic... |
| 27.02.2023 | Summary of Oral Arguments in Rep. Scott Perry Phone Seizure Case | On Feb. 23, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral arguments in In re Sealed Case, concerning the Department of Justice’s attempts to access the personal cell phone of Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) as part of i... |
| 27.02.2023 | How Much Can the Speech or Debate Clause Protect Mike Pence? | Former Vice President Mike Pence’s announcement that he plans to resist a subpoena from a grand jury investigating potential crimes in connection with Jan. 6 has precipitated a great deal of debate on the nature of the vice presidency and w... |
| 16.02.2023 | Congress Should Repeal and Replace JASTA | This term, the Supreme Court is set to opine on the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) for the first time since Congress passed the statute in 2016. In Taamneh v. Twitter—a companion case to Gonzalez v. Google—petitioners ask... |
| 15.02.2023 | The Long Descent to Insurrection | Editor's note: listen to a conversation with the author and Lawfare Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic on the Lawfare Podcast here.
The release of the final report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States... |
| 15.02.2023 | The Lawfare Podcast: A Jan. 6 Committee Staffer on Far-Right Extremism | The Jan. 6 committee’s final report on the insurrection is over 800 pages, including the footnotes. But there’s still new information coming out about the committee’s findings and its work.
Last week, we brought you an interview with Dean J... |
| 14.02.2023 | A Cyber Persistence Way to Countermeasures | If international law intends to regulate state behavior to ensure international peace and security, it must reflect the conceptions of security the states employ that threaten the same, such as threats to use force and armed conflict. Conce... |
| 12.02.2023 | Contextualizing the Nigerian Government’s Forced Abortion Program | Editor’s Note: Sexual violence in war takes many forms. In Nigeria, the government is forcing women impregnated by Boko Haram to have abortions, which the University of Denver’s Hilary Matfess and Georgetown’s Robert Nagel argue is unpreced... |
| 08.02.2023 | The Lawfare Podcast: A Jan. 6 Committee Staffer on Social Media and the Insurrection | The Jan. 6 Committee released its final report on December 22, 2022—the capstone of a year and half of investigative work. But while the report is 800 pages, there’s a lot that it doesn’t include. The Washington Post recently reported on th... |
| 04.02.2023 | Around the halls: Brookings experts on Biden’s performance in the Middle East | Suzanne Maloney on stalled diplomacy and mass protest in Iran.
Halfway into his term, President Biden faces a conundrum on Iran. He entered office determined to reverse his predecessor’s decision to exit the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Tehran’s... |
| 03.02.2023 | A Chance for the Courts to Rein in Governing by Emergency | In a few weeks, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral argument in two seemingly unrelated cases concerning the use of pandemic-related emergency powers—one about canceling student loan debt and one about the influx of migrants at the ... |
| 28.01.2023 | The risk of election violence in the United States in 2024 | Despite fears that the 2022 U.S. midterm elections would see a reprise of January 6-like political violence, the elections occurred with no mobs storming state capitals or other attacks. Improved law enforcement deserves much of the credit:... |
| 27.01.2023 | How Can a ‘Digital Emblem’ Help Protect Medical Facilities Against Cyber Operations? | Cyber operations have become a reality of armed conflict. For instance, during the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, there has been widespread use of wipers—malicious codes used to destroy digital assets such as computers, servers, or ro... |
| 19.01.2023 | Rational Security: The 'Thelma or Louise' Edition | This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott reunited on our new recording day to talk through the week’s big national security news, including:
“Blocked and Muted.” Earlier this week, the Washington Post published a draft report by the Jan. 6 commit... |
| 18.01.2023 | The Case for Designating Wagner Group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization Is Still Compelling | Earlier this year, we argued in Lawfare that the secretary of state should use his authority under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) to designate Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group and its affiliates as a foreign terro... |
| 15.01.2023 | Trump used his deposition in a defamation case to boast, complain, insult Joe Biden, and threaten to sue the attorney questioning him | Donald Trump is facing a libel and sexual assault lawsuits brought forward by writer E. Jean Carroll Rebecca Blackwell/AP
Donald Trump was deposed in October 2022 in a defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll.
During the deposition, Trump... |
| 23.12.2022 | Congress Mandates Sweeping Transparency Reforms for International Agreements | Editor's Note: This post also appears on Just Security.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (NDAA), which Congress passed on Dec.15 and President Joe Biden signed today, contains sweeping new transparency requirement... |
| 14.12.2022 | The Case for War Torts—for Ukraine and Beyond | In May 2022, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Ukraine’s intention “to ensure that Russia compensates in one way or another for everything it has destroyed in Ukraine. Every burned house. Every ruined school, ruined hospital. Each blo... |
| 09.12.2022 | Accountability at the U.S.-Africa Summit | The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit will be held next week, more than eight years after the first U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit was held in Washington, D.C., in August 2014 under the Obama administration. During the Trump administration, no such su... |
| 21.11.2022 | We Live in an Age of Futile Impeachments | During the Republic’s first 41 presidencies (Washington through Bush I), there were only two presidential impeachment episodes, both of them weighty. President Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 and avoided conviction by a single vote. In... |
| 18.11.2022 | Attorney General Merrick Garland named a special counsel to take over investigations involving Donald Trump | Attorney General Merrick Garland tightened Justice Department policies to prevent political appointees from attending partisan events. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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| 25.10.2022 | Commitment to Balance Is Vitally Important for Successful Implementation of CHMR-AP | Publication of the Department of Defense Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response-Action Plan (CHMR-AP) at the end of August has prompted an appreciable degree of debate regarding how the plan will be implemented in practice and how best to op... |
| 13.10.2022 | Clarifying Responsible Cyber Power: Developing Views in the U.K. Regarding Non-intervention and Peacetime Cyber Operations | “I won’t go into detail about [U.K. offensive cyber] activities—stealth and ambiguity are key attributes of cyber operations.” So said Sir Jeremy Fleming, the head of the U.K. intelligence, cyber, and security agency GCHQ (Government Commun... |
| 11.10.2022 | What Can a Secretive Funding Authority Tell Us About the Pentagon’s Use of Force Interpretations? | For nearly two decades, the Department of Defense has used 10 U.S.C. § 127e, an obscure counterterrorism funding authority, to create and command proxy forces across Africa and Asia. The full list of these proxy forces is highly classified ... |
| 05.10.2022 | What Is the Controversy on Repatriations From Syria About? | Editor’s Note: This article offers a short summary of the origins of a recent European Court of Human Rights ruling and the stakes involved. You can read more about the ruling in the author’s previous article.
In a recent judgment, the Euro... |
| 05.10.2022 | Beyond Deportation | Border enforcement once again dominates contemporary immigration law debates. Yet many legal practices commonly linked to border control—including policing, relocation, and exclusion—actually have little to do with immigration enforcement. ... |
| 29.09.2022 | Immigrants’ Rights: Five Things to Know About the Right to Seek Asylum | Although our laws provide a clear right for people fleeing persecution to seek asylum in the United States, anti-immigration lawmakers have purposefully sown confusion about the law, the process of applying for asylum, and what is really ne... |
| 28.09.2022 | Water Wars: U.S. Counters Beijing's Reaction to Pelosi Visit With $1.1 Billion Arms Sale to Taiwan | U.S.-China Tensions Continue to Escalate Over Taiwan
Chinese Drones Buzz Taiwan Following Speaker Pelosi’s Visit; Taiwan Responds
Following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) visit to Taiwan on Aug. 2, Beijing reacted by holding milita... |
| 28.09.2022 | US says military killed 12 civilians in 2021, sparking scepticism | The United States Department of Defense, which has for years been accused of vastly under-investigating and under-reporting civilian casualties, has released a congressionally mandated annual report on civilians killed by the US military wo... |
| 21.09.2022 | Finally, a Better U.S. War Crimes Bill. Now What? | Justice is having a moment. Ongoing atrocities in Ukraine have put accountability for serious international crimes in the spotlight in ways not seen for decades. That’s especially true in the United States, where legislators usually skeptic... |
| 19.09.2022 | Investigating the Death of Shireen Abu Akleh | On May 11, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced the death of Shireen Abu Akleh. Abu Akleh, who reported on the Israel-Palestine conflict for Al Jazeera, was shot in May while reporting on an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) operation in th... |
