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484 U.S. 383 (1988) Search all Supreme Court Cases Search all Supreme Court Cases No. 86-1034. Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 4, 1987 Decided January 25, 1988 APPEAL FROM T...
Nico Perrino is FIRE's executive vice president and the creator and host of FIRE’s So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast . Prior to his current role, he led FIRE's Communications department for nearly ...
532 U.S. 514 (2001) Search all Supreme Court Cases Search all Supreme Court Cases No. 99-1687. United States Supreme Court. Argued December 5, 2000. Decided May 21, 2001. [*] CERTIORARI TO ...
The allocation of regulatory authority over AI between states and the federal government is a complex problem that can’t be resolved in a single stroke. Last week, congressional Republicans launched a...
Rutgers University Search all Cases In April 2011, as part of its annual April Fools' edition, Rutgers student satire publication The Medium published a fake editorial titled "What about the good thin...
The "chilling effect" means that people are being discouraged or intimidated from engaging in expression for fear of negative consequences, such as social disapproval, retaliation, or lawsuits. By Dav...
President Trump’s first-day executive order on “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” purports to bring an end to birthright citizenship, which provides that babies born on U.S. so...
This Thursday, Dec. 10, at noon EST, Suzanne Maloney, the vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, and Lawfare senior editor Scott R. Anderson will join ...
A judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a suit from former Deputy National Security Advisor Charles Kupperman seeking guidance on whether to comply with a congression...
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Daniel Byman, and Ari Tabatabai for an in-depth discussion of the U.S. military operations against Iran, including: In object les...
Donald Trump deserves credit. The Situation on Thursday commented on the visible decay in the FBI’s investigative performance. Today, I want to—unironically and with perfect sincerity—offer praise and...
The Situation on Monday asked whether everything—the entire situation—is the fault of Attorney General Merrick Garland. Today, I want to contemplate the group of people the president-elect has nominat...
The ruling may encourage inclusion of a warrant requirement for U.S. person queries in next year’s Section 702 reauthorization. A federal judge in Brooklyn has ruled that the U.S. government violated ...
Editor’s Note: Portions of this article appeared in a paper prepared by the author for The Federalist Society. Only two months remain before the most important operational statute in the national secu...
The FBI’s search of a Washington Post reporter’s home raises questions about the protections afforded to journalists in leak cases. It is the morning of Jan. 15, and reporters are lined up at the U.S....
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a redacted report on Russian active measures campaigns in the 2016 election. This document, reportedly the first of five volumes, is titled, “Volume 1: Russi...
Table of Contents Introduction – Natalie Orpett, Executive Editor It’s been a tough year in “hard national security choices.” The news came fast and furious and covered a dizzying array of topics. War...
Unknown knowns pose the most difficult problems for people and nations to address. With the recent passing of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, it’s worth revisiting one of his most famous ...
NATO can be recast, not restored. Since Iran began targeting commercial shipping and reportedly mining the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation against the unfolding U.S. and Israeli war, President Trump h...
The use, or rather misuse, of commercially available spyware technologies has been featured in national and international media accounts, investigations, and research reports for well over 15 years. W...