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Donald Trump's election as president brought a surge of interest in the previously obscure Emoluments Clause, which prohibits any “Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States]” ...
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Pixelization can't protect privacy. Tech improvements make privacy harder all the time. "Google Brain, an offshoot of the Silicon Valley behemoth working on a form of artificial intelligence called deep...
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On Wednesday, a federal grand jury indicted Harold ("Hal") Thomas Martin III, a former private contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton, of willful retention of national security information. The 20-count ind...
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Yes, this week, the Ninth Circuit decided to temporarily leave in place the nationwide injunction on President Trump’s ban on entry to the United States from seven Muslim countries. And, yes, the preside...
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It was a very strange day.
The only thing lower on my list of expectations than a presidential tweet when I got into an Uber this morning was what I got: an approving presidential tweet.
Yet there it w...
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Faced with the Ninth Circuit decision declining to stay the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against President Trump’s EO, the government must now choose between an array of bad options. To that end, th...
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The Washington Post informs us that despite earlier denials by National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and others in Trump’s administration, Flynn did discuss the possibility of lifting U.S.
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As Lawfare readers are well aware, a legal battle over President Trump’s immigration order is underway in courtrooms across the country. Last night, three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ni...
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Last week, U.S. District Judge James Robart (a George W. Bush appointee) sent President Trump into a Twitter tizzy by issuing a temporary restraining order (TRO) enjoining the enforcement of Trump’s immi...
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This week, after a long, partisan confirmation battle, the Senate confirmed Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as the United States Attorney General.
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Trump administration formulates policy in the East, South China Seas
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This evening the Washington Post reported that, National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn discussed sanctions during his December phone calls with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Previously both...
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In a per curiam decision, the Ninth Circuit has denied the Trump administration’s request for a stay of the temporary restraining order (TRO) enjoining the enforcement of Executive Order 13769 while its ...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has denied the government's motion for an emergency stay of a temporary restraining order in Washington v. Trump, regarding the President's executive order...
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With his repeated disparagement of the judiciary and unfounded criticism of the news media for under-reporting terrorist attacks, a number of commentators have suggested that Trump is preemptively trying...
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President Trump today signed three new executive orders related to law enforcement activity: "Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Traff...
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Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch reportedly called President Trump’s recent attacks on the courts “demoralizing” and “disheartening” in a private meeting with Senator Richard Blumenthal (R-CT), the Tim...
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I've received this draft text from 3 different sources:
STRENGTHENING THE CYBERSECURITY OF FEDERAL NETWORKS AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
By the authority vested in me as President by the Consti...
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In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump called to “unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth.” Members of Congres...
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Last week, after years of stays and delays, the Israeli government finally enforced a ruling of the country’s High Court and began dismantling the settlement of Amona. In scenes of resistance designed to...