I wrote Monday morning about costs within the Justice Department when its leaders stay silent in the face of the president’s caustic attacks on the department’s independence and integrity. I mentioned in...

There are a few problems with Dershowitz's thesis.

The interpretation of the Flynn plea is subject to the usual risks that someone—Robert Mueller—knows far more than anyone else, and with what is available on the public record, it may be impossible to ap...

The news that former national security adviser Michael Flynn has reached a cooperation and plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller could not come as less of a surprise. Reports of Flynn’s bizarre b...

Lawfare’s readers are well-aware that the political echelons of the Trump administration are woefully understaffed. Ten months into this presidency, the pace of appointments under Trump trails that of hi...

Last Thursday, the conference committee for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2018 filed its report reconciling the differences between the House and Senate versions of the le...

News coverage of Donald Trump’s recent pronouncements about the criminal justice system has centered on the question of norms. He is rightly criticized for refusing to observe restraint in his comments a...

I’m beginning to think President Trump is playing a game of making Rod Rosenstein look bad. Every time the deputy attorney general opens his mouth, the President flamboyantly pulls the rug out from under...

Together with David Remes, I presented Capt. Nathan Smith's challenge to the war against the Islamic State before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Oct. 27. Judge Thomas Griffith presided, with Judges...