Executive Branch
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Closing the Title 32 Gap in Domestic Counter-UAS Authority
While acting under state authority, the traditional status of the National Guard, guard personnel lack statutory authority to detect, track, or mitigate drone threats. -
A Kill Switch for Frontier AI
The government is using export control law to force Anthropic to cut access to its most powerful models. The legal authority is plausible but the facts remain murky. -
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 12
Listen to the June 12 livestream as a podcast. -
Rational Security: The “Forbidden Fruit” Edition
Scott Anderson, Benjamin Wittes, Michael Feinberg, and Molly Roberts talked through the week’s big news in national security. -
Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 12
Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation surrounding the Trump administration. -
Syria’s State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Is Blocking Its Recovery
The United States has the authority and the justification to lift the last vestiges of U.S. sanctions. What it appears to lack is the will. -
Lawfare Daily: Why Immigrants are Challenging the Conditions of their Detention
Breaking down the landscape of immigration detention litigation. -
Dispatch: Move Fast and Break Things and Nobody Has Standing
No court can stop President Trump’s ballroom, the government says in National Trust for Historic Preservation v. NPS. -
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 5
Listen to the June 5 livestream as a podcast. -
Lawfare No Bull: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche Testifies on DOJ’s Anti-Weaponization Fund
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Is Trump’s ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Slush Fund Dead? Or Is It Undead?
And why the answer is less important than you might think. -
Inside the Implementation of Schedule Policy/Career
President Trump signed an executive order making over 8,000 federal employees removable at will.


