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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...
American University Search all Cases On May 25, 2022, American University Washington College of Law’s Title IX office launched a formal investigation into eight law students who expressed pro-choice v...
In 2018, Louisiana enacted SB 364 , now La. Stat. Ann. § 17:3399.31 through § 17:3399.37 . In 2022, Louisiana enacted HB 185 . SB 364 is a bill that prohibits public colleges and universities from qua...
Contracts rule the digital world. Today’s terms of service dictate Americans’ speech rights, privacy rights, and even Fourth Amendment rights. This makes terms of service something like public law for...
FIRE defends and promotes the value of free speech for all Americans in our courtrooms, on our campuses, and in our culture. Founded in 1999 as the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, for o...
The case sets a dangerous legal precedent, empowering governments to police speech on platforms by invoking national security. TikTok v. Garland marks a low point for the First Amendment. Unless TikTo...
All three branches of the American government have now put their seal on the idea that TikTok poses a national security threat. The Supreme Court just unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the T...
TikTok has become one of the many issues that the Trump administration inherited prior to inauguration. But this is not a new issue for the president. In 2019, Trump addressed the cybersecurity concer...
Lawfare Senior Editor Michael Feinberg sits down with Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman to discuss their new book, “ The Church Committee Report : Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation ...
The TAKE IT DOWN Act is the first major U.S. federal law to squarely target non‑consensual intimate imagery (NCII) and to include a component requiring tech companies to act. Long handled via a patchw...
The Situation on Sunday looked out the window of a chic cafe to survey the wreckage of war. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that a federal grand jury in Washington had declined an indictment ag...
If you are not mocking The Situation, The Situation is dominating you. The Situation on Tuesday argued for intentionally slowing down. Today I want to talk about humor and to urge people to get in tou...
The trial ended in an acquittal. But the proceedings felt like a strange sort of performance art—highly amusing and highly menacing at the same time. It’s Nov. 3, a day some recognize as National Sand...
A chic window on disaster. The Situation a week ago discussed the weirdness of watching America while traveling abroad and focusing intensively on the security problems of a different country. Wednesd...
Not-really-U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan and her ragtag team of prosecutors seem to have taken the old adage very literally: If at first you don’t succeed, try, t...
In the years since Xi Jinping assumed power, China has undertaken increasingly risky military activities in the name of national security at sea , in the air , and even in space . At the same time, Be...
As the confrontation escalates between the House of Representatives and the White House over the production of documents, the appearance of witnesses and compliance with congressional subpoenas, so to...
While President Trump can decide whether to use force against Iran, Congress has taken steps that may make him unwilling to do so. On May 6, President Trump vetoed a joint resolution that would have c...
Media commentary suggested that President Trump’s June airstrikes overrode broad congressional opposition. The truth is more nuanced. On June 21, U.S. forces carried out a bombing attack on three nucl...
On Dec. 3, 2025, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) issued a 137-page final report conveying findings from 17 years of oversight into Afghan reconstruct...