Law, Courts & Regulations
The Justice Department has found its new favorite statute to address domestic extremism. On Dec. 6, the Justice Department unveiled charges against an Arizona “extremist” preacher who prosecutors say ...
It was a wild week at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) company most famous for its immensely successful ChatGPT service. Sam Altman, the company’s CEO and arguably the most important person in...
On Monday, 16 young plaintiffs—between the ages of 5 and 22—walked into a packed courtroom in Helena, Montana, to sue their government. At issue is a 1972 amendment to the state constitution guarantee...
Editor’s Note: Stopping the financing of terrorism is one of the most important, and most difficult, counterterrorism tasks. Jess Marin Davis, the president of Insight Threat Intelligence and my colle...
Editor’s Note: The crisis between India and Canada over the killing of a Sikh opposition leader caught many Americans by surprise, emerging seemingly out of nowhere. My Georgetown colleague Christine ...
The court ruled that the petitioners’ claims regarding Trump’s candidacy in the 2024 general election are not yet “ripe.” On Nov. 8, the Minnesota Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed by a group o...
And why the war in Gaza won’t be like the war in Afghanistan. Editor’s Note: After Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, many Americans saw parallels with the U.S. war on terrorism that began after 9/11. R...
Editor’s Note: For the United States and its allies, Afghanistan is the problem that will not go away. The country is facing a major humanitarian crisis, and the Taliban have refused to bend to pressu...
The United States has long set restrictions on the export of certain sensitive goods and technologies, particularly to strategic rivals. But over the past several years, we have seen first the Trump a...
On Jan. 17, three active-duty Marines, Cpl. Micah Coomer, Sgt. Joshua Abate, and Sgt. Dodge Dale Hellonen, were each charged with four misdemeanors in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Cap...
Cybersecurity enforcement will likely require an expansion of government inspections of critical infrastructure. Editor's Note: This is the final installment in a three-part series on cybersecurity en...
Iran and its proxies are using attacks for political signaling. They may be creating escalation challenges that bring them closer to war with the U.S. Iranian-backed groups have used the Israel-Hamas ...
For object lessons, Scott flagged that Lawfare has a new website, now located at www.lawfaremedia.org ! Alan recommended the new sci-fi think-piece " The Mountain in the Sea " by Ray Nayler. Quinta e...
The promise and risks posed by artificial intelligence appear to have captured our collective imagination. The risks seem to span from global doom brought about by a rogue AI to the enshrinement of ha...
The sudden and devastating Hamas attack on Israel has so far claimed over 900 Israeli lives and wounded 2,700 more . Many of the dead are civilians, including children, and Hamas has also taken many d...
Israel’s military response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre has raised deep concern from international legal observers and the general public. The IDF’s tactics have been described as “disproportionate,” an...
Editor’s Note: When conflict breaks out, civilians inevitably suffer. But they do not react uniformly, with some fleeing, others staying, and still others joining the fray. Aidan Milliff of Florida St...
In January, a group of North Carolina voters filed a 34-page petition to block Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s name from appearing on the 2022 primary ballot. What’s behind the petition? Listen to the author ...
In the brief, Gov. Greg Abbott invokes the “invasion clause” of the U.S. constitution, among other statutory arguments. On Aug. 9, Texas filed a brief in response to the Justice Department’s suit agai...
The indictment handed up on Monday by a grand jury in Fulton County , Georgia, is a document of extraordinary ambition. Before we dive in, let us begin with a confession: We won’t know until District ...