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An Update of the Israel-Palestine-International Criminal Court Timeline
A lot has happened before the International Criminal Court since we last reported on the Palestine and related situations. The timeline below picks up where my last timeline of…
The Tangled History of Confederate Generals at West Point and in the US Army: What’s in a Name?
In an article on renaming Lee Barracks at West Point, Benjamin Haas, who like myself is a West Point graduate, argued that the United States Military Academy should remove Robert…
Recap of Recent Analysis on Just Security (August 19-25)
I. Charlottesville and the Legacy of Racism in the U.S. Ryan Goodman, 10 Similarities in David Duke’s and Pres. Trump’s Unscripted Remarks on Charlottesville (Tuesday,…
Trump’s War–More Risk Than Reward for US Military Involvement in Afghanistan
Under the headline, “Former Special Forces Officer: If We Withdraw From Afghanistan, ISIS Will Move In,” Fox News identified a problem, but not the proper scale of that problem…
Episode 32 of the National Security Law Podcast
Bobby Chesney and I just posted Episode 32 of the National Security Law Podcast, which includes detailed reactions to (1) President Trump’s speech on Afghanistan; (2) last…
Recap of Recent Analysis on Just Security (August 12-18)
I. Charlottesville 1. Scott Sullivan, Prosecuting Domestic Terrorism as Terrorism 2. John Reed, A Post-Charlottesville Reading List II. Surveillance and Privacy Jake Laperruque,…
Weekend Listening: Episode 31 of the National Security Law Podcast
I’ve been delinquent in flagging this week’s episode of the National Security Law Podcast, all the more so because I think it’s one of the best discussions…
Prosecuting Domestic Terrorism as Terrorism
On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared that the vehicular attack in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend constitutes “domestic terrorism in our statute” and…
The Test Case for Presidential War Power: North Korea and Trump
My friend Marty Lederman has a characteristically useful post up about one of many important legal questions surrounding options in the current stand-off between the United States…
Do Federal Courts Lack the Power To Directly Enjoin the President?
That’s the argument the Justice Department is making in Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump — the lawsuit in New York challenging President Trump’s blocking…
How Mueller Can Make the Grand Jury Report Public or Hand it to Congress
With news that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has begun using grand juries to conduct his investigation, there are now questions about where it might all lead. Of course, it might…
Don’t Expect Indictments Soon in Russia Probe: When Counterintelligence and Prosecutorial Interests Meet
The recent news of a July FBI raid on the home of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has raised expectations in some circles that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation…