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April Fool’s Day Joke Canceled

Jane Chong, Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes
Saturday, April 1, 2017, 10:02 AM

Lawfare will be breaking with tradition by not posting an April Fool’s Day joke this year. We just couldn’t come up with anything so silly and clearly factually inaccurate that there was no chance anyone at the White House would take it seriously. We didn't want to risk sparking a crisis.

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Lawfare will be breaking with tradition by not posting an April Fool’s Day joke this year. We just couldn’t come up with anything so silly and clearly factually inaccurate that there was no chance anyone at the White House would take it seriously. We didn't want to risk sparking a crisis.


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Jane Chong is former deputy managing editor of Lawfare. She served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and is a graduate of Yale Law School and Duke University.
Susan Hennessey was the Executive Editor of Lawfare and General Counsel of the Lawfare Institute. She was a Brookings Fellow in National Security Law. Prior to joining Brookings, Ms. Hennessey was an attorney in the Office of General Counsel of the National Security Agency. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of California, Los Angeles.
Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.
Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.