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The House Should Fine Bannon, Meadows, Navarro and Scavino Now If It Wants Their Testimony
Other remedies don’t work. Congress should revive its own power to impose sanctions for contempt. -
Former U.S. Ambassador Richard Olson Pleads Guilty to Illegal Foreign Lobbying
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The Aftermath, Episode 3: Congress Responds
The episode looks at what Congress was doing in the days immediately after Jan. 6. We hear from experts and from people who were actually there, on both sides of the proceedings. -
Biden Administration Releases Plan to Seize Russian Assets
On April 28, the Biden administration released a comprehensive proposal for a legislative package to hold the Russian government and Russian oligarchs accountable for the war against Ukraine. -
Why Steve Bannon’s Contempt Prosecution Revolves Around His Attorney, Robert J. Costello
Robert Costello and two co-counsel have now moved to dismiss the charges against Bannon based on a series of internal Department of Justice memoranda that stretch back decades. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Marjorie Taylor Greene Faces Insurrection Questions
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Where Are the Jan. 6 Committee Hearings?
If the committee wants to hold public hearings on its findings, it will have to start moving more quickly. -
Why Hasn’t the Justice Department Charged Mark Meadows With Contempt?
It’s been four months since the House asked the Justice Department to seek Meadows’s indictment. Are the department’s misguided precedents holding things up? -
Seditious Conspiracy Is the Real Domestic Terrorism Statute
To answer the question of whether the United States needs a new domestic terrorism statute, we first have to explore how well, if at all, seditious conspiracy is already performing as a substitute. -
D.C. Circuit Rules That Public Health Law Empowers Government to Expel Asylum-Seekers—But Not to Countries Where They Face Persecution or Torture
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently ruled in a challenge to a policy of expelling asylum-seekers at the border during the coronavirus pandemic, offering partial victor... -
Donald Trump, John Eastman and the Silence of the Justice Department
How can it be that the most devastating legal opinion ever written about an American president may not trigger a criminal investigation? -
The Fourth Amendment and Geofence Warrants: A Critical Look at United States v. Chatrie
The reasoning of the decision has some major problems.
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