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Departments of Education and Justice: National "Blueprint" for Unconstitutional Speech Codes

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 ...

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Howard University: Professor Subjected to 504-Day Investigation and Sanctions for Hypothetical Test Question Involving Waxing

Howard University Search all Cases On May 4, 2017, Howard University law professor Reginald Robinson was deemed responsible for sexual harassment after two students complained about a test question in...

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Intellectual Freedom Protection Act Draft

WHEREAS in 1957’s Sweezy v. New Hampshire , the Supreme Court of the United States observed that “[t]he essentiality of freedom in the community of American universities is almost self-evident. No one...

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The Situation: Cheating on The Situation

The Situation on Wednesday took a look at The Situation from the vantage point of a city facing a less self-inflicted situation. One funny thing about watching The Situation from abroad is that it see...

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Retconning ‘Russiagate’

The CIA director encourages the rewriting of history. On June 26, the CIA released a Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russian election interference. That review...

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Trump Administration Releases 2025 National Security Strategy

On Dec. 4, the Trump administration released its National Security Strategy (NSS). The strategy document, which every presidential administration since Ronald Reagan’s has produced, outlines the execu...

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The Situation: I Never Signed Up for This Kind of Targeted Killing

And it’s a profoundly dangerous power for any president to have The Situation on Wednesday basked ever so briefly in good news from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on the Alien Enemies...

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Rational Security: The “RatSecapella” Edition

This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by Lawfare Contributing Editor Eric Ciaramella to talk through the week’s big natsec stories, including: For object lessons, Alan got on the Amor Towles ...

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Macronism: Fin?

“Macronism will probably come to an end in the coming months, with the end of President Macron’s second five-year term.” These words— uttered by government spokesperson Sophie Primas in June—seem to c...

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Transatlantic Digital Trade Protections: From TTIP to ‘Policy Suicide’?

In abandoning long-held tenets of digital trade, Washington is broadly aligning with the EU’s belief in greater room for regulation of Big Tech. When the United States and the European Union began neg...

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The Bipartisan, Bicameral Privacy Proposal Is a Big Deal

The American Data Privacy and Protection Act would provide numerous substantive privacy protections that are long overdue. On June 3, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce posted a press release ...

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China Gains as U.S. Abandons Digital Policy Negotiations

The United States Trade Representative just handed a victory to China on digital sovereignty. The future of U.S. global digital policy hangs in the balance following a shock decision by the office of ...

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Data Broker Registries in Bills: the ADPPA and the DELETE Act

Tennessee just enacted the United States’ eighth comprehensive state privacy law . Just days before that, Indiana’s governor signed a comprehensive privacy bill , which enters into effect on Jan. 1, 2...

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FBI Improperly Searched Senator’s Name in FISA 702 Database

On July 21, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence partially declassified a court opinion written in April that revealed an FBI analyst ran unapproved searches using the last names of a U...

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Latest NDAA Supports AI Safety, Innovation, and China Decoupling

This year’s defense bill made many significant changes to U.S. AI policy. Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, most successful federal lawmaking on artificial intelligence (AI) has occurred with...

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Trump Orders 75-Day Pause on TikTok Law Enforcement

On Jan. 20, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the attorney general to suspend enforcement of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFAC...

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TechTank: ‘Signalgate’ and the use of commercial apps in government

On March 15, the United States carried out strikes in Yemen reportedly killing dozens of people. On March 24, The Atlantic published an article revealing that its editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, wa...

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Trump Rescinds Biden AI Executive Order

President Donald Trump followed through on a campaign promise to rescind the Biden administration’s 2023 Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence (AI). While Trump has yet to announce a new executiv...

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Using AI to Improve the Government—Without Violating the Privacy Act

“There is nothing inappropriate or nefarious going on.” That’s how Madi Biedermann , deputy assistant secretary for communications at the Department of Education, described members of the U.S. DOGE Se...

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Unpacking WhatsApp’s Legal Triumph Over NSO Group

Santa came early for Meta. On Dec. 20, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California handed down a decisive legal win for the tech giant’s subsidiary, the messaging service Wha...

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