Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 2025)

U.S. Strikes / Venezuela

• Legal Flaws in the Trump Administration’s Notice to Congress on “Armed Conflict” with Drug Cartels
  by Marty Lederman
• What the Senate Judiciary Committee Should Ask A.G. Bondi on Drug Cartel Strikes
  by Mary B. McCord and Tess Bridgeman

Russia-Ukraine War

• Legally Available Options in Response to Russia’s Penetrations of NATO Airspace
  by Michael Schmitt
• The Imperative to Weaken the Kremlin’s War Economy: What the West Can Do
  by Michael Carpenter and Martin Vladimirov
• Balancing the Scales: Survivors’ Needs and Rights and Criminal Accountability in Ukraine
  by Hoar Habrelian and Julia Tétrault-Provencher

United Nations

• The United Nations in Hindsight: The Increasing Use of Article 51 of the UN Charter and the Security Council
  by Matthew Blainey
• Trump Signals Instrumental Approach to U.N. – But it Could Be Worse
  by Richard Gowan

Political Violence

• Assassinations in America: How Political Violence Became Personal
  by Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware

Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions (Updated)

• Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
  by Just Security

Trump Executive Actions

• Taking Stock of the Birthright Citizenship Cases, Part IV: DOJ’s Ineffective Responses to Plaintiffs’ Statutory Argument
  by Marty Lederman
• The Trump Administration’s Use of State Power Against Media: Keeping Track of the Big Picture (Updated)
  by Rebecca Hamilton

Emerging Technologies

• AI’s Hidden National Security Cost
  by Caroline Baxter

Climate

• Xi’s Climate Announcement: A Disappointment, Not a Breakthrough
  by Sue Biniaz