A document provided to Lawfare indicates that the intelligence community is being tasked with monitoring and collecting information on some protest activities.

Following Brexit, leaders from the U.S. and the U.K have said they may collaborate on human rights sanctions. However, the two countries’ recent diverging sanctions decisions suggest coordination has not...

There are a few answers, but a lot more questions.

The Department of Homeland Security announced a policy that would force international students to leave the country or transfer if their universities went fully online. A week later, the rule was rescind...

The former U.S attorney wouldn’t discuss active cases or speculate on the motivations of Main Justice. But he did offer a detailed timeline of the frenzied 30 hour period during which he was dismissed.

How does the rhetoric of past presidents who have deployed federal troops to enforce domestic law compare to President Trump’s?

The philosopher’s analysis in the midst of the Red Scare suggests a different way of understanding current debates about the suppression of ideas.

In the weeks following protests over the police killing of George Floyd, the federal government brought more than 120 different cases against protestors for a range of crimes—many concerning relatively m...

The investigation as it developed should not have been conducted by a federal prosecutor, and Attorney General Barr’s public commentary has seriously (and somewhat mysteriously) damaged the credibility o...

On a short timeline, student immigration is not a national security issue. On a timeline measured in decades, it is.

A federal appeals court has upheld an injunction against a Trump administration asylum curb, finding that the measure conflicted with the immigration statute.