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The D.C. Circuit has posted the audio in Klayman v. Obama, the Section 215 case, here.
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All across the United States, people are going to the polls today to vote in this year’s midterm elections.
19.3 million early votes have already been logged in the most expensive midterm election ever....
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The wise Walter Pincus had a good piece yesterday in the WP that makes two points: (1) the United States’ fight “against the so-called Islamic State has just begun and will last for years,” and (2) “Iraq...
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Today I attended the hour-long oral argument in Zivotofsky v. Kerry.
I won’t rehearse the facts or procedural history, other than to remind readers of the basic question under discussion: the constitut...
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Today marks the beginning of oral arguments in the landmark Zivotofsky v. Kerry case. Lawfare has devoted extensive coverage to the trial and its implications, a small selection of which can be found her...
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Over at Just Security, Ryan Goodman analyzes UN Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson's claim that states owe the same privacy protections to non-nationals abroad as to their own citizens at home in conducting...
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The Washington Post last week reported that Syria strongly denounced the decision by Turkey to allow ten Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross the border from Turkey into the Syrian town of Kobane.
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I think I am unusual among former government officials in arguing that the publication of national security secrets can promote democracy and good government. Such publications are often costly, sometim...
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Editor's Note: For those of you who have already contributed to Lawfare in response to my appeal the other day, many thanks from all of us.
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Recently The Guardian reported on FBI demands new powers to hack into computers and carry out surveillance. The FBI is seeking to make several changes to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedur...
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Editor's Note: Sanctions and other economic tools are increasingly the foreign policy instruments of first resort. They seem to harness U.S. economic might and convey strength while avoiding the human an...
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A quick response to Marty Lederman’s latest post on Zivotosfsky. I confess that I do not fully understand either Marty’s or the SG’s (pp.
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Two weeks ago, on the podcast, we ran a speech on encryption that FBI Director James Comey gave at the Brookings Institution and the resulting discussion with a very engaged audience. One person in that ...
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This week, Lawfare instituted the very first edition of the #BrookingsFightClub. You can check out here the first titanic struggle of the series between Editor and Chief Benjamin Wittes and me, the lowly...
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The D.C. Circuit has just issued a per curiam order denying the detainees' petition for an en banc rehearing in Hatim v. Obama.
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In a fast-moving situation, Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaore has announced that he will resign and the military has seized power following violent protests in which demonstrators set fire to parl...
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The first rule of Brookings Fight Club is: Ask a guy in a bunny suit to serve as your referee.
Ever wanted to kick your boss's ass? Ever been so frustrated with an intern you just wanted to clock him? I...
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House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) today sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, calling for the immediate suspension of all transfers of detainees from Guantanamo.
Yo...