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As the debate in Washington over how to deal with ISIS intensifies, Jack outlined how to make an authorization of force against the militant group politically palatable for both the President and Congres...
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In a summary order yesterday, a panel of the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal by EDNY Judge Dora Irizarry of an Alien Tort Statute suit against two former directors of the Pakistani Inter-Services I...
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If there were any doubt as to who Russian President Putin is supporting in Ukraine, there sure isn’t now: today, Putin directly applauded pro-Russian separatist rebels there.
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On February 19, 2013, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court granted an order for the production of certain tangible things, applied for by the FBI pursuant to 50 U.S.C.
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The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has released a heavily redacted opinion issued on February 19, 2013. The opinion applies Section 1861 of Title 50. We will have a summary.
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Like all red-blooded national security law nerds, I have been following Jack's excellent posts over the past week on the politics and the advisability of a potential ISIS AUMF---the last of which post, w...
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Over the last 24 hours, the situation in eastern Ukraine has rapidly deteriorated. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko canceled a visit to Turkey after declaring that Russian soldiers are officially ope...
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Obama administration officials said that they have begun to mobilize allies towards potential American military action in Syria, reports the New York Times. The Times suggests that Australia, Britain, Jo...
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One senses growing pressure, within and without the White House, for the President to seek authorization from Congress for what he and his aides say will be a long battle against the Islamic State (IS). ...
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I am no expert at all on climate change. With that large caveat, I think the Coral Davenport’s New York Times story about President Obama’s international climate accord ambitions overstates the domestic...
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A couple of weeks ago, several non-Afghan detainees at Bagram Air Force Base, Afghanistan filed a cert petition with the Supreme Court after the D.C. Circuit affirmed the district court’s ruling that it ...
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ISIS continues to dominate headlines today as debate sharpens around expanded U.S. intervention in the crisis.
The New York Times reports that President Obama has authorized surveillance flights over Sy...
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If terrorist capture comes, can a debate over Guantanamo vs. federal court be far behind?
Apparently not. This time, the debate is coming even before the terrorist's capture---or even his positive ident...
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Yesterday, plaintiff-appellants in Allaithi v. Rumsfeld filed their petition for a rehearing en banc, two months after the D.C.
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The Islamic State remains at the top of the headlines.
First, a ray of good news amid the terrible: on Sunday, American journalist Peter Theo Curist, kidnapped in October 2012 and reportedly held by the...
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On August 19, Judge Boasberg of the DC District Court ruled that former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh enjoys immunity from suit for alleged human rights abuses of Sikhs in India while he was Prime...
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Editor’s Note: China’s establishment last November of an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) shook many observers, who feared it was a first step in a more aggressive Chinese foreign policy. Here at t...