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Fourth Circuit Affirms in Part Preliminary Injunction Against Travel Ban
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has affirmed in part a district court's nationwide preliminary injunction issued against the Trump administration's revised travel ban in International Re... -
Those “Three Separate Occasions”: What Comey Might Really Have Told Trump
Last night, CNN ran a lengthy interview I did with Anderson Cooper, in which I made a bald statement. When Cooper asked me about President Trump’s claim that then-FBI Director James Comey had assured him... -
More on Rule of Law in the Trump Administration and the Role of Congress
The President, through his Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is fighting again with the Office of Government Ethics (OGE). The dispute is over OGE access to granted ethics waivers that have permitt... -
Your City or Your Soul: On Moral Compromise and Government Service
In the weeks and months after the presidential election—and even before it—an unusual debate took shape on the pages of Lawfare and elsewhere: Would it be possible to serve ethically in a Trump administr... -
On the Importance of Limiting White House-DOJ Contacts: It’s Not Just About Obstruction
Last week’s New York Times story detailing Benjamin Wittes’s conversations with then-FBI Director James Comey and Wittes’s own Lawfare post describe in some detail Director Comey’s concerns about inappro... -
Dealing with Trump: How Canada Has Been Successful (So Far)
Editor’s Note: Perhaps no country is closer to the United States—geographically and culturally—than Canada. Aside from a few unpleasant moments at the birth of the American republic, relations have been ... -
How to Get Out of Impeachment Territory
Let’s say that you or your political ally have engaged in some behavior that have people talking about impeachment. You find yourself in impeachment territory. Is there no way out of that territory? If t... -
Questions Raised by Rod Rosenstein’s Statement
One of us was admittedly very hard last week on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for his role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey. His drafting of a memo criticizing Comey’s handling of the C... -
Congressional Access to the Comey Memos
Perhaps one of the most consequential revelations in Tuesday’s New York Times bombshell was that former FBI Director James Comey made detailed contemporaneous accounts of “every phone call and meeting he... -
DAG Rosenstein's Statement to the House of Representatives on FBI Director Comey's Dismissal
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein met with members of the House of Representatives this morning to discuss events related to the dismissal of former FBI Director James Comey. Below is his statement ... -
The Simple Answer to Judge Paez’s Question about Korematsu
During oral arguments in the Fourth and Ninth Circuits, judges attempted to draw analogies between President Trump's travel ban and Korematsu v. United States (1944). -
Congress Cannot Shut Down: Limits of the Special Counsel
Today's news brings the unsurprising but depressing suggestion that Congressional investigations of the Russian efforts to influence our elections will just have to shut down, rather than risk interferen...
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