Law, Courts & Regulations
In his recent response to my piece on Lawfare about the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI and also referred to as the Grain Deal), Gregory Novak—with the support and endorsement of Helmut Aust—laid out...
Government legal advisers play an important role in upholding the rule of law in Israel. Pla Downgrading the independence of government legal advisers is not among the highest-profile proposals to ref...
The Justice Department unsealed an indictment of an Indian national for his alleged participation in a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate a Sikh activist in New York City. On Nov. 29, the Justice Dep...
Sens. James Risch (R-Idaho) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Reps. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) have just introduced the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity (REPO) ...
There has been much discussion over Special Counsel Jack Smith’s decision to indict former president Donald Trump in the Southern District of Florida (SDFL) as opposed to the District of Columbia. Aft...
Just about any conceivable use of force in the Middle East can be justified under an Article II self-defense theory. Which means that a lot rests on the president’s, and his subordinates’, prudence. T...
In the first installment of the “Twitter Files,” Matt Taibbi, a journalist covering Elon Musk's release of internal documents from Twitter, proclaimed the files to be a “Frankensteinian tale of human-...
Though the Biden administration’s new National Cybersecurity Strategy has much in common with previous guidance, it is breaking new ground in several areas, especially arguing for new regulation—since...
In the last few months we've seen an explosion of new AI products, especially those built around large language models. And in response, we've also heard calls for far more aggressive government regul...
The secretary of homeland security just announced what appears to be a major policy shift for the Biden administration: The administration will begin building a 20-mile border wall along the Lower Rio...
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’s decision makes Maine the second state to have removed former President Donald Trump from a primary ballot. On Dec. 28, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows ruled...
Beijing’s current strategy for ensuring CCP rule through mid-century and beyond heavily emphasizes domestic threats. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) stated ambition to ensure the nation’s revita...
In the past few weeks, there have been several notable developments in lawsuits seeking to disqualify Donald Trump from the 2024 election under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The Minnesota Supreme C...
Last month's brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police has once again sparked a national conversation about the causes of and remedies for persistent police misconduct and abuse. To explore this...
The New York indictment of Donald Trump is just the start. Over the past several days, a debate has raged over the merits of an indictment nobody had seen. Is it a strong case ? Is it weak ? Is it leg...
Over the past several months, the Biden administration has furiously defended Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ( FISA 702 ), even as Congress seems potentially poised to overha...
In an end-of-the-day ruling on Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court struck Donald Trump from the Republican primary ballot on grounds that he was disqualified for the presidency as a result of Section ...
A recent opinion piece in Time drew scathing criticism when it suggested that, in an effort to control countries violating a moratorium to prevent artificial intelligence (AI) run amok, it might be ne...
The arguments and counterarguments that Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment doesn’t apply to presidents ahead of today’s oral arguments. On Nov. 17, a state judge in Denver, Colorado, rendered an ex...
It was a busy weekend in the waters off of Ukraine and Russia. The Ukrainians hit—for the second time—the Kerch Bridge, which connects the Russian mainland with occupied Crimea. The Russians, meanwhil...