Latest in Criminal Justice & Rule of Law
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With 
-
I Am Not a Source; Reading My Twitter Feed Is Not a Method
The government just made a weird admission in my lawsuit about those intelligence reports DHS filed about me. -
Russian Oligarch and Allies Indicted For Sanctions Evasion
The Justice Department unsealed an indictment charging Russian oligarch Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska,and two associates with conspiracy to violate U.S. sanctions imposed on Deripaska and one of his busin... -
Tornado Cash Sanctions Are Unduly ‘Creative’ With the First Amendment
The chilling effects of the Treasury Department’s unprecedented sanctions against code itself are being felt well beyond the cryptocurrency community, threatening the entire open source software ecosyste... -
Social Media Transparency Rules, Zauderer Standard Head to Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether social media companies must explain how they moderate content. To get to an answer, the justices will have to clarify the law surrounding compelled comm... -
Why the Jan. 6 Committee Must Reinforce the 25th Amendment
The aftermath of the attack on the Capitol exposed challenges of using the 25th Amendment. In its upcoming report, the Jan. 6 committee should clearly explain how the amendment works and propose legislat... -
Independent Report on ‘Meta’s Human Rights Impact in Israel and Palestine’ in May 2021 Released
The report found that proactive detection technologies and Meta's legal obligations contributed, in part, to Meta's asymmetrical treatment of content during the conflict to the detriment of Palestinian -
The Fifth Circuit’s Social Media Decision: A Dangerous Example of First Amendment Absolutism
The Fifth Circuit badly overreaches in upholding Texas’s social media moderation law, making a hash of the First Amendment in the process. -
Fifth Circuit Upholds Texas Social Media Law
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of a Texas law that greatly restricts the ability of social media companies to moderate content and imposes certain transparen... -
Sanctions as a Surgical Tool Against Online Foreign Influence
Sanctions are sometimes perceived as blunt tools with delayed effects. In the world of online influence, they can have precise and immediate effects, hitting malign actors and operations at their core. -
Let’s Stop Being Cavalier About Civilian Control of the Military
An open letter by former secretaries of defense and chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff represents a remarkable consensus on what core principles of civil-military relations are necessary for maintaini... -
Policing With Less and Less Policing
A review of Michelle Wilde Anderson, “The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America” (Simon & Schuster, 2022). -
Trump’s Fourth Amendment Claims and the Strategy Behind the Challenge to the Mar-a-Lago Search
Trump’s challenge to the Mar-a-Lago search is based largely on Fourth Amendment claims. Those claims are unusual, interesting, ultimately meritless, and likely driven by strategic interests having little...
Topics
