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I think I am on safe ground in saying that when Brett Kavanaugh and I presented our papers at the Minnesota Law Review symposium in October 2008—his on separation of powers and mine on (of all things) ju...
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British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson stepped down on Monday amid growing tensions over Brexit negotiations, reports the Wall Street Journal. Johnson’s resignation occurred less than 24 hours after tha...
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Approximately 100 asylum seekers arrived at the U.S. border between San Diego and Tijuana in April after traveling together as part of a migrant caravan through Mexico. Mostly families seeking safety in ...
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An Israeli district court issued a lengthy decision last month related to the Duma arson attack, the July 31, 2015, fire-bombing of two Palestinian houses by two young Jewish settlers that burned alive a...
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On Monday, July 9 at 10:00 a.m.: Join the Bipartisan Policy Center for Why Inspectors General Matter. The event will address recommendations for...
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Editor’s Note: Russia is the most aggressive actor challenging the United States today, but the nature of that aggression differs from the past threat Moscow posed and, indeed, from the dangers posed by ...
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It's been a bad week for Polish democracy, with the government removing a bunch of judges from the country's Supreme Court in order to replace them with party loyalists. In response, protestors took to t...
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The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Hawaii continued to make waves this week. On Monday, Salam Al-Marayati kicked things off with a discussion of how anti-Muslim sentiment threatens the future of co...
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North Korea may be developing a new submarine with the capability to launch nuclear missiles, says South Korea, reports the Wall Street Journal. South Korea’s military saw satellite imagery that revealed...
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A year ago, we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. This post provides our data for the month of June.
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On July 3, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted Uzair Paracha's motion for a new trial in light of new evidence. Paracha, a Pakistani citizen, was conv...
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The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Carpenter v. United States raises lots of fascinating and novel Fourth Amendment questions. In this post I want to focus on one interesting and important set of qu...
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Trump v. Hawaii is about the constitutional status of pretext: When should we accept a pretext from the president and what does it take to cure or alleviate the taint of bad acts by a president once they...
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U.S. intelligence says North Korea is not giving up its nukes. Should the next Supreme Court justice recuse on matters involving Trump and the Russia probe? And the war in Afghanistan grinds on, with lit...
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A group of steel importers filed the latest challenge to the Trump administration's steel tariffs on June 27 under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The suit, filed by the American Institut...
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Two British nationals were hospitalized after being exposed to a Soviet-era nerve agent, according to BBC. This latest incident bears striking similarities to an event in March when an ex-Russian spy and...
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George Conway, writing in Lawfare a few weeks ago, forcefully rejected professor Steven Calabresi’s argument that the special counsel’s appointment was unconstitutional. I agree with his analysis as a ge...
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won the Turkish election the other day, and becomes the first president under Turkey's new empowered presidential system. His party, in coalition with ultra-nationalists, will contro...
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The Senate intelligence committee released the findings Tuesday of its review of the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 election. The document is bel...
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A federal judge ordered the U.S. government to stop its blanket detention policy for asylum seekers, according to the Washington Post. The government will now have to release more than 1,000 individuals ...