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CRS Analysis of AUMF Proposals
Via Secrecy News, I see that the CRS has summarized and analyzed the seven proposals in Congress for a New AUMF. -
The Legal Consequences of Islamic State + Al Qaeda Cooperation, and Implications for AUMF Reform
Deb Riechman at AP is reporting: Militant leaders from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida gathered at a farm house in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work ... -
Pew Study Says Exactly What You'd Expect on Privacy
The Pew Research Internet Project has released a new public opinion study that shows exactly what you would expect the public believes about privacy, surveillance, and related matters. The study seems to... -
The Preamble to the ISIS AUMF
Allow me to stress an issue perhaps in the capillaries, rather than at the heart, of the ISIS AUMF debate: language in the next AUMF’s preamble. So far as I know, nobody is talking about this just yet. -
Wilson Center Event on ISIS and Congressional Authorization
Streaming video is below. As noted earlier, Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va) will give remarks on ISIS and congressional authorization; afterwards, Wilson Center Director and former Representative Jane Harman, ... -
A New AUMF, The Lame-Duck Session, and the Meaning of Sunset Clauses
Two quick reactions to John Bellinger’s post on a new ISIL AUMF: I agree that the new Congress and not the lame duck Congress is best suited to revise the 2001 AUMF (and, in my opinion, also to put the ... -
The Lame Duck Congress Should Not Sunset the 2001 AUMF
I am troubled that the two proposals for a new AUMF posted by my Lawfare colleagues (Jack, Bobby, Ben, and Matt) and by a group at Just Security -- while constructive -- would both repeal the 2001 AUMF. ... -
A Response to Steve Vladeck on the AUMF Principles
I am a little perplexed by Steve's response to my critique of the AUMF principles he helped write. Steve accuses me of "hiding the ball." But he seems to me, rather, to be moving the goalposts. -
Ben's Sweeping Endorsement of the <em>Just Security</em> AUMF Principles
In his post this morning, Ben identifies what he calls "flaws" with three of the six principles for a use-of-force authorization for ISIL that were introduced yesterday by a group of legal experts (that ... -
Why Three of the Six <em>Just Security</em> AUMF Principles are Flawed
By coincidence, the same day that Jack, Bobby, Matt and I released our draft AUMF text, a group associated with Just Security released a document entitled "Principles to Guide Congressional Authorization... -
Why A Substantively Neutral But Procedurally Constraining AUMF Makes Sense
A few weeks ago Matthew Waxman and I ended our critical essay on President Obama’s war powers legacy by noting that “Obama’s legacy will look quite different if, after the midterm elections, he seeks and... -
Appellees File Supplemental Brief in Klayman v. Obama
A few days after oral argument before a three-judge panel of the D.C.
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