Law, Courts & Regulations
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Thomas Robertson wore a gas mask on Jan. 6, 2021, when he entered the Capitol Building while brandishing a wooden stick . He proceeded to confront police officers, take videos while inside the Capitol...
Having a Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression staffer come to your event to speak is an excellent opportunity to bring positive change to the state of freedom of speech and expression in Am...
Policies addressing bullying and cyberbullying have often “trickled up” from K-12 to the collegiate setting, where they prohibit bullying in a problematic manner by including expression that is protec...
Green card holders like Columbia University’s Mahmoud Khalil are entitled to due process before having their permanent residency taken away. At 11:30 a.m. this morning, Judge Jesse Furman of the U.S. ...
From the moment U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon was assigned to preside over United States v. Trump , the classified documents indictment unveiled in the Southern District of Florida on June 8, many...
With a payment to El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, President Trump appears to have hired a foreign government to arbitrarily detain hundreds of men. Although U.S. presidents have often made contr...
On Jan. 29, President Trump ordered the expansion of facilities at Guantanamo Bay to hold migrants being deported from the United States. It was the latest—and perhaps most aggressive—move to deploy t...
On March 15, the Trump administration flew more than 200 Venezuelan citizens to El Salvador, in violation of U.S. law and a court order from District Judge James Boasberg. The next morning, El Salvado...
On Sept. 4, President Donald Trump sent a letter to Congress offering his administration’s legal justification for the military strike it carried out on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea two days prior. A...
What law lets the Trump administration store Venezuelans in Salvadoran prisons? The Situation on Friday surfaced 20 questions posed by the quickly proliferating El Salvador deportation cases. Today, I...
The United States has excluded most law from Guantánamo Bay for decades. It should reverse that position now and provide medical care for its declining detainees. In January 2002, the first men were f...
Editor's Note: This post is part of the sixth annual Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict joint blog series . Editor's Note: This post is part of the sixth annual Transatlant...
Even absent an order to “kill everybody,” the Trump administration’s actions—like its broader military campaign—raise serious legal concerns that demand further scrutiny. For the past week, much of Wa...
On Sept. 2, a U.S. drone attack killed 11 suspected Venezuelan drug runners on a speedboat in the Caribbean. Legal experts immediately condemned the attack as unlawful . Since then, at least two more ...
A review of Chile Eboe-Esuji, “The End of Immunity: Holding World Leaders Accountable for Aggression, Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity” (Prometheus, 2024). Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji’s ne...
By applying the tools of war to civilians, the Trump administration is entering unprecedented—and deeply problematic—legal territory. Editor’s note: Listen to a live discussion from Sept. 4 on the leg...
The Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act would finally give the U.S. the ability to prosecute suspected war criminals found inside U.S. borders, regardless of nationality, and now Congress needs to c...