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GDPR has finally arrived, Maury Shenk reminds us, bringing both expected and unexpected consequences.
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There is no obvious right answer on the validity of self-pardons, and if Trump becomes the first president to pardon himself, a court is unlikely to provide an answer.
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Jordan’s King Sacks Prime Minister amid Economic Protests
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There’s been a flurry of encryption news over the past few months. In February, the National Academies released a report that discussed early-stage research into the design of secure cryptographic system...
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“Something of historic importance is happening in North Asia,” Phillip Bobbitt writes. “Our present enervation, the sense of inertia in U.S. policy, arises in part because we lack the imaginative ideas c...
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The office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed a motion with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia stating that there is "probable cause to believe that [Paul] Manafort has violated 18...
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In posing a hypothetical that a president could not be indicted for committing murder, Giuliani appears not to have considered the serious questions that raises about his positions on the president’s imm...
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President Trump announced that he believes he has the “absolute right” to pardon himself, according to the Washington Post. The president tweeted Monday morning:
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The document is most interesting not as a legal work but for what it says about the president’s lawyers’ understanding of the special counsel’s investigation of obstruction.
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When reading about Snowden, keep in mind the dedicated NSA employees who strive to uphold the rule of law and protect their country.
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Trump’s exercise of the pardon power is another example of how he is degrading settled norms of behavior and governance.
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National security adviser John Bolton is often caricatured as a unilateralist. One of his legacies during the George W. Bush administration, however, was a significant new multilateral effort: the Prolif...
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The kind of presidency that Hamilton and others feared has arrived.
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Apart from its primary claim of unreviewable power over criminal investigations, the January 2018 letter from the president's lawyers to Special Counsel Robert Mueller makes a number of remarkable, and s...
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History can be a good friend of confirmation bias. We often look to the past for lessons that support beliefs that we already have instead of the ones best supported by a deep analysis of the evidence.
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The New York Times has obtained letters sent to the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller by the president's legal team, one in January 2018 and one in June 2017. The correspondence makes an aggressiv...
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Matthew Kahn posted the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel’s May 31 memorandum opinion on the U.S.’s April 2018 airstrikes on Syrian chemical-weapons facilites. Jack Goldsmith contended that the ...
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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) plays an essential role in advising the president on how to exercise his or her authority to block foreign investments that might let the ...
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The government has filed a notice with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Doe v. Mattis, informing the court that phone calls between Doe and his attorneys were inadvertently recorde...