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Summary from the Courtroom: Al-Alwi v. Trump Oral Argument
On Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral argument in Al-Alwi v. Trump. Chief Judge Merrick Garland, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson (joining remotely) and Judge Thomas Griffith reviewed the... -
Will We Ever Learn What Bob Mueller Knows?
Over the weekend, Jon Lovett—a former speechwriter for President Obama and a fixture of the Pod Save America podcast—tweeted an interesting question: Question I don’t know the answer to - is it possib... -
Summary: Qassim Filings on Habeas Claim
Khalid Ahmed Qassim, a Guantanamo Bay detainee from Yemen who made international headlines by writing in the Guardian about his hunger strike protesting his treatment, submitted multiple filings to the U... -
The Cambridge Analytica-Facebook Debacle: A Legal Primer
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Summary: The Department of Homeland Security Authorization Act of 2017
On March 7, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 10-to-one to approve legislation authorizing the operations of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the first ti... -
It’s Time for Congress to Pass the Mueller Protection Bills
Over the weekend, for the first time, President Trump directly called out Special Counsel Robert Mueller by name—leading a number of congressional Republicans to publicly insist that Mueller’s investigat... -
The President and His Lawyers, Part II: The Attorney General and the Saturday Night Pre-Massacre
As President Trump moves closer to an all-out assault on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the question is: How will the lawyers around him respond? They understand that the president sees them as an exten... -
Andrew McCarthy's Puzzling Argument
National Review’s Andrew McCarthy has had a lot of criticism of the Mueller investigation recently. I’ve found those criticisms weak on the substance, and his latest column is no exception. I thought I ... -
What We Know, and Don’t Know, About the Firing of Andrew McCabe
Anyone who is confidently pronouncing on the merits of Andrew McCabe’s firing Friday night is venturing well beyond the realm of known facts. -
Living Inside Adversary Networks
The Trump administration on Thursday accused Russia of infiltrating by digital means “energy and other critical infrastructure sectors” in the United States. -
A Preview of Oral Argument in Al-Alwi v. Trump
On Tuesday, March 20, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit will hear oral argument in Al-Alwi v. Trump, the case of Guantanamo detainee Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi. Chief Judge Merrick Garland and Judge... -
The White House PCLOB Nominations: A Pleasant Surprise
There is that classic joke about the difference between an optimist and a pessimist—an experiment in which two children are put in a room to play. The pessimist enters a room full of toys and sits there ...
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