Law, Courts & Regulations
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...
Wichita State University Search all Cases In January 2022, Wichita State student paper The Sunflower published an article describing how student journalists received parking privileges different from ...
On Saturday, April 5, the Department of Justice indefinitely suspended Erez Reuveni , a senior immigration lawyer. His offense? Failing to “zealously advocate on behalf of the United States,” accordin...
At least 60 percent of college newspaper editors reported experiencing at least one instance of administrative censorship in the previous year. Read the Press Release In the fall of 2020, Jared Nally,...
The Situation on Friday outlined James Comey’s defense based on the numerous motions his lawyers have filed in his criminal case so far. Yesterday, the prosecution outlined its own case. Spoiler alert...
James Comey and Letitia James both know that getting a case dismissed for selective and/or vindictive prosecution is typically a tall order for a defendant. They say as much in their respective motion...
Earlier this week, the Justice Department seemed poised to pursue an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James on pathetically weak charges. Yet the charges that actually ended up in ...
The Situation on Wednesday commented on President Trump’s falling approval numbers. Yesterday, a magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a startling 24-page opinion —or, rather, an...
The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey on charges of making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding touched off furious allegations and widespread concern th...
Lawsuits against social media companies are addressing not only Section 230, but also product liability law and the First Amendment. Yesterday’s verdict in the social media addiction trial in state co...
It’s Friday the thirteenth at 11:30 a.m., and camera crews are already clustered outside the Warren E. Burger Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in St. Paul, Minnesota. The arraignment of five defen...
Unpacking the Don Lemon indictment, its factual allegations, the elements the government must prove to convict, and the potential defenses available to the accused. Two strikingly different narratives...
Kyle Cheney, senior legal affairs reporter for Politico, speaks to Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff about the thousands of habeas corpus cases he has pored through challenging a Trump administratio...
An impasse is coming to a head. The resolution is unknown. The Department of Defense has made clear that Anthropic has until 5:01pm ET today, February 27th, 2026, to permit its use of Claude for any l...
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Molly Roberts, Michael Feinberg, and Troy Edwards to talk through the week’s big warrant-related national security news, including: In object less...
In a live conversation on Sept. 2, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Anna Bower, and Lawfare Public Service Fellow Loren Voss to discuss S...
The Situation on Sunday commented on the shocking paucity of detail or evidence in the government’s effort to issue subpoenas to the Federal Reserve Board—a paucity that grew more dramatic when the go...
Following a public scandal involving the old MAG, the new MAG terminated proceedings against soldiers charged with serious abuse of a Palestinian detainee. On March 12, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)...
In object lessons, Shane is basking in the glory of HBO’s “ Somebody Somewhere ”—partly because his buddy Jeff Hiller just won an Emmy for his role in it. Ben praises Adam Boehler —and even Donald Tru...