Law, Courts & Regulations
Judge Reggie Walton’s ruling demanding in camera review of the unredacted Mueller report underscores how much the Trump administration has squandered the executive branch’s goodwill with the judiciary...
The term "kakistocracy" (rule by the worst) emerged from obscurity during the first Trump administration. The word, which was previously used to describe troubled foreign governments , gained mainstre...
The Situation on Friday meditated on the plate tectonics of the ongoing confrontation between President Trump and the forces of the ancien régime. Today, we need to talk about those disappearing stude...
The Supreme Court’s Jan. 17 decision upholding the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACAA) initially appeared to signal the end of TikTok's presence in Americ...
Yesterday, FBI Director James Comey threw the presidential election campaign into turmoil with a letter to Congress declaring that the Clinton email matter was, perhaps, not entirely done after all. Y...
The Situation on Thursday celebrated 15 years of Lawfare. In the two days that followed, President Trump got rid of the interim U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia and went on a social m...
New York Attorney General Letitia James may be next in the line of President Trump’s political enemies to be prosecuted by the Justice Department. The likely basis of the indictment, should it arrive?...
Watch Anna Bower discuss this article with Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes on Lawfare's YouTube here . It was 1:20 p.m. on the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 11. I was lounging in my pajamas, idl...
You can’t keep the facts out of a criminal case forever. The Situation on Wednesday contemplated what an indictment against James Comey might look like. Today, we got one , and we still don’t really k...
The annus horribilis for those of us still invested in the FBI’s integrity continues apace. The most recent wound opened roughly two weeks ago with a series of events roundly condemned by most segment...
The Situation on Sunday pondered the removal of the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia—Erik Siebert—over his lack of enthusiasm for indicting a certain set of the president’s po...
On Sept. 25, 2025, a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted former FBI Director James Comey today on two counts arising out of his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on S...
On Oct. 23, former President Donald Trump filed a motion to dismiss the charges against him in his Jan. 6 case in D.C. District court on the basis of selective and vindictive prosecution. In the motio...
The federal indictment announced this month against former President Donald Trump includes four charges under three statutes : 18 U.S.C. § 1512 (obstructing an official proceeding), 18 U.S.C. § 371 (c...
Judge Aileen Cannon’s opinion in the Mar-a-Lago matter actually defies defense. The Justice Department has now filed a notice of appeal and a motion to partially stay U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon...
It is a Friday afternoon in Ft. Pierce, Florida, where the litigation in Donald Trump’s federal criminal case is set to wind down much as it began : with a hearing before U.S. District Judge Aileen Ca...
Earlier this week, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he had received a target letter from the special counsel’s office investigating Jan. 6, indicating that he may soon face criminal charges...
In recent weeks, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida has emerged as one of most liberal judges in the country in terms of championing the First Amendment and common-l...
Lawfare Senior Editor Molly Roberts joins Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes to discuss her new article on the so-called “grand conspiracy” investigation, which is now the subject of a grand jury probe i...
On Sept. 26, a federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia charged three members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in connection with their alleged hack of the...