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Appalachian State University Search all Cases In March 2012, tenured professor Jammie Price was placed on administrative leave after students alleged that she had created a hostile environment and str...
University of Oregon Search all Cases On June 13, 2014, the University of Oregon charged a female student with five conduct violations on the basis of a four-word joke shouted out a dormitory window a...
Search all Cases The U.S. Departments of Justice and Education have joined together to mandate that virtually every college and university in the United States establish unconstitutional speech codes ...
On Wednesday, Nov. 28, Congress took what may be its most important step to date towards openly opposing U.S. involvement in the Yemen war. By a vote of 63 to 37 , the Senate elected to discharge a jo...
Last Wednesday, Feb. 28, a bipartisan coalition of senators introduced a proposed new joint resolution seeking to compel the Trump administration to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led campaign in Yeme...
Half a century into its existence, the WPR has had a more substantial effect than many acknowledge—but not necessarily in the way its authors anticipated. Fifty years ago this week, Congress took a no...
President Trump’s recent decision to recognize Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s interim president has placed the United States in the middle of a heated struggle over that country’s political future. Presid...
It’s the first Monday of 2026. As I step outside of the Canal Street subway station in Lower Manhattan, I can hear the whirring of helicopters above me. But other than that, my morning walk down Canal...
The 2022 NDAA authorizes $768 billion in funding for the Defense Department. The House and Senate have passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 2022, which authorizes $768 billion in f...
His name, it turns out, is Abdulrahman Ahmad Alsheikh. His name, it turns out, is Abdulrahman Ahmad Alsheikh. For the past 13 months, most of us just called him John Doe. We knew he was a U.S.-Saudi d...
The memo provides the legal rationale behind the controversial January 2, 2020, drone strike that killed Major General Qassem Soleimani of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and several leaders ...
In Iraq, the Trump administration’s military response to a fatal attack on U.S. personnel has triggered a new political crisis. The U.S.-Iraq relationship may not escape unscathed. This past Sunday, D...
The Trump administration will treat Congress’ failure to limit its military campaign as tacit approval. This interpretation is inconsistent with the War Powers Resolution. On March 2, the Trump admini...
The United States—through presidential aggrandizement, as well as congressional delegation and acquiescence—has given the president discretion to use force in ways that can easily lead to a massive wa...
I’ve been asked a lot recently about the President’s power under Article II to order a military strike on North Korea in the absence of congressional authorization. The proper meaning of Article II o...
On June 20, U.S. military officials confirmed media reports that Iranian military forces successfully shot down a U.S. drone in the vicinity of the Persian Gulf. On June 20, U.S. military officials co...
The Soleimani strike was likely within the president’s domestic legal authority to pursue. But in certain ways, it may push that authority’s limits. In the early hours of Jan. 3, the Trump administrat...
In the early hours of Saturday morning, an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle entered Israeli airspace close to the Syrian border. Israel shot down the UAV and responded by attacking the command vehicle,...
As most Lawfare readers know, the United States accused Iran of attacking two oil tankers on June 13 in the Gulf of Oman and crippling the ships with explosions that were presumably caused by naval mi...
For the past two months, the Middle East has teetered on the edge of war. Tensions over the U.S. “maximum pressure” campaign have led Iran to target maritime shipping in the Persian Gulf, launch rocke...