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It’s a cool September morning in Washington, D.C., where the prosecution of U.S. v. Donald J. Trump is set to lurch back to life after nearly nine months of being frozen in amber. On Dec. 7, 2023, the...
Today at 3 p.m. ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Quinta Jurecic and Roger Parloff for a live discussion of the Supreme Court's opinion released thi...
Greg Rosen, now an attorney at Rogers Joseph O’Donnell, spoke with James Pearce, Lawfare Legal Fellow, about his time prosecuting federal crimes in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colum...
It’s the decision we’ve all been waiting for: on the very last day of the Supreme Court’s 2023 term, the Court handed down its ruling in Trump v. United States, concerning the former president’s poten...
On Sept. 16, 2025, the Georgia Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a lower court decision that disqualified the Fulton County District Attorney, Fani Willis, from prosecuting the 2020 election...
On July 27, Special Counsel Jack Smith charged a third defendant, Carlos De Oliveira, in the case of United States v. Donald Trump and Waltine Nauta in a superseding indictment. The indictment describ...
On Jan. 14, shortly after midnight, the Justice Department released the first half of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report of his more than two-year investigation, a 137-page volume entitled “Rep...
On January 10, New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan sentenced President-elect Donald Trump to an “unconditional discharge” in the New York hush money case , in which Trump was convicted o...
On Dec. 19, the Court of Appeals of Georgia granted the motion to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump and his co-defendants in a...
On April 4, New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan unsealed the indictment of former President Donald Trump. Trump is facing 34 felony charges. He pleaded not guilty to all of them. On April 4, New...
A final dispatch from 100 Centre Street Jan. 10, 2025 Walking up to 100 Centre Street, through Collect Pond Park, past the professional line-sitters employed by The Line Dudes, LLC, and up to the cour...
Part II of a final dispatch from the New York Trump trial. Previously on Trump New York Trial Dispatch: " From Arguments to Instructions" May 30, 2024 It’s a cool summer morning outside the Manhattan ...
It’s been nearly one year since Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts in Manhattan criminal court. Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower sits down with New York Times reporter Jonah Bromwich to ta...
Editor’s note: The following is a dispatch from a hearing held on Sept. 20, the latest episode in Lawfare’s series of dispatches on the Fulton County district attorney’s criminal case against former P...
When the U.S. Department of Justice is ordered to bring criminal probes against a president’s critics and enemies, it’s not surprising that the cases they come up with prove startlingly weak. That’s w...
MAGA rhetoric meets AI policy. Alongside last month’s “AI Action Plan” —a broad strategy for promoting innovation while managing risks—last month the Trump administration also issued several executive...
From Portland to Minneapolis, aggressive actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents against citizens and noncitizens alike have been well documented. Many of these encounters raise gr...
Editor's note: Notwithstanding that Judge Provinzino’s civil contempt order was purged and never resulted in payment of a fine, on Feb. 25, after publication of this article, the U.S. Attorney’s Offic...
A meditation. The Situation Friday just asked some questions. Today is the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. I have nothing wise or novel to say about the war, its progres...
Lawfare Public Service Fellow Ariane Tabatabai and Eric Brewer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative join Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes in a discussion of the possibly impending U.S. strike on Ir...