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Congress Buys Itself Another Three Weeks on Section 702
On Dec. 21, the House and Senate voted 238-188 and 66-32, respectively, to pass a concurring resolution extending government funding until Jan. 19, 2018. One provision of that bill extended the FISA Amen... -
Foreign Relations Law Casebook Supplement
The new Supplement for Curtis A. Bradley and Jack Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2017), is now available. -
Document: December 2017 National Security Strategy and Transcript of Remarks
The White House released the following National Security Strategy document on Monday, Dec. 18. -
Document: Independent Assessment of British Counterterrorism Intelligence
The following is an independent assessment by British barrister David Anderson of nine internal reviews of British intelligence in connection with four terrorist attacks in the spring and summer of 2017. -
Document: Akayed Ullah Complaint
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has charged Akayed Ullah, the suspect in Monday's attempted suicide attack in New York, on five counts. They are: -
Document: FY 18 NDAA President Signing Statement
President Donald Trump has signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2018. Read the conference report here and Lawfare's previous coverage highlighting parts of the bill here. The pre... -
Document: White House Dec. 11 War Powers Report
The White House Press Office has released the following letter, dated Dec. 11, 2017, informing Congress of current military operations consistent with the 2001 and 2002 authorizations for the use of mili... -
Document: New Military Commission Charges in 2002 Bali Bombings
The chief prosecutor of the Guantanamo Bay military commissions, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, has brought new charges against Riduan bin Isomuddin (also known as Hambali), an al-Qaida affiliate alleged ... -
Document: D.C. District Court Denies DOJ Motion for Partial Stay in Doe v. Trump
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly denied the government's request for a partial stay of the court's Oct. 30 injunction, which required the military to allow prospective transgender enlistees by Jan. 1. The fu... -
Documents: Supreme Court Grants Stays in Travel Ban Litigation
The Supreme Court issued orders in Trump v. Hawaii and Trump v. IRAP, allowing the White House's revised travel ban to take effect while litigation proceeds in the Fourth and Ninth circuits. The full ord... -
Documents: Criminal Information and Plea Agreement in NSA Employee Willful Retention Case
Former NSA Tailored Access Operations (TAO) developer Nghia Hoang Pho pleaded guilty on Friday to willful retention of national defense information. Pho faces a maximum of ten years in prison for removin... -
Documents: Government Response to Court Order in ACLU v. Mattis and Response Briefs
On Nov. 30, the Justice Department responded to D.C. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan's order in ACLU v. Mattis for the government to say whether the unnamed American citizen detainee being held as an ...
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