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The ‘Three Rs’ of President Biden’s Trans-Atlantic Privacy Outreach
The new signals intelligence executive order is a positive response to prior privacy disagreements with the U.S. and European Union. European advocates would be wise to embrace it. -
Justice Department Issues Sentencing Recommendation for Bannon
On Oct. 17, the Justice Department reccomended that former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon be sentenced to six months in prison and fined him $200,000 for defying a subpoena issued by the House... -
What’s in Biden’s Executive Order on Signals Intelligence?
A brief summary of the Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities. -
What Can a Secretive Funding Authority Tell Us About the Pentagon’s Use of Force Interpretations?
An obscure counterterrorism authority has been used to create and control proxy forces throughout the war on terror—its use across Africa and Asia points to broader interpretations of the 2001 AUMF and t... -
‘Patriotic Hacking’ Is No Exception
Ukraine’s offensive cyber hacking against Russia, though perhaps for aims that the international community may agree with, is nonetheless a violation of cyber norms—which should be enforced without excep... -
Finally, a Better U.S. War Crimes Bill. Now What?
The Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act would finally give the U.S. the ability to prosecute suspected war criminals found inside U.S. borders, regardless of nationality, and now Congress needs to clos... -
2019 Trump Obstruction of Justice Memo Released
The newly released memo reveals the reasoning that then Attorney General Bill Barr relied on to decline to prosecute former President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice in the Mueller investigation. -
D.C. Circuit Panel Allows House Committee to Review Trump’s Tax Returns
What happened now in the fight over Trump’s tax returns? -
The Wrong Way to Compete With China
The CHIPS and Science Act is a major, bipartisan plan to compete more effectively with China. But it places too much emphasis on subsidies and state direction. -
Correcting Misconceptions About the Electoral Count Reform Act
The new bipartisan bill is a substantial improvement over the 1887 Electoral Count Act. -
Donald Trump’s Impeachment Lies to Congress
The big reveal from Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony and the Jan. 6 hearings that nobody’s talking about. -
Supreme Court Embraces Broad Congressional War Powers in Torres
In Torres v. Texas Dep’t of Public Safety, the Court held that private suits against states are authorized under Congress’s war powers, carving out a new structural waiver exception to state sovereign im...
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