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Nearly 300 people were killed and 500 injured in suicide bombings at churches and hotels on Easter Sunday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, reported the New York Times. -
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Document: Trump Sues House Oversight Chairman and Accounting Firm Over Tax Returns
President Trump and the Trump Organization have filed a lawsuit against Rep. Elijah Cummings, the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, and the accounting firm Mazars USA LLP. The complai... -
Document: Appeals Court Upholds Chelsea Manning Contempt Order
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has rejected Chelsea Manning's appeal of the district court order finding her in civil contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury. The order is ... -
Road to Adequacy: Can California Apply Under the GDPR?
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Obstruction of Justice in the Mueller Report: A Heat Map
The Mueller report describes numerous instances in which President Trump may have obstructed justice. A few days ago, I threw together a quick spreadsheet on Twitter to assess how Special Counsel Robert ... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Culper Partners Rule of Law Series: Ron Klain
In this fifth episode of the special Culper Partners Rule of Law Series, David Kris and Nate Jones speak with former senior White House and DOJ official Ron Klain. -
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Unintended Consequences of U.S.-Taliban Talks
Editor’s Note: Americans are weary of the war in Afghanistan, and peace talks between the United States and the Taliban are raising hopes that this forever war might finally end. Jessie Durrett, a gradua... -
Some Questions for Attorney General Barr
Consider the affirmative dismay with which lawyers are likely to view the actions of Attorney General Bill Barr. Even leaving aside the atmospherics of his recent performances (for example, the almost pa... -
The Mueller Report Is a Challenge for Democracy to Solve
It would be hard to imagine a scenario that casts harsher light on the limits of American governance than the aftermath of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report—or one that demonstrates how lucky the c... -
The Mueller Report Demands an Impeachment Inquiry
Here is, as William Barr might call it, “the bottom line”: The Mueller report describes, in excruciating detail and with relatively few redactions, a candidate and a campaign aware of the existence of a ... -
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