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The President and Immigration Law: Restoring Faith in Our Immigration System Through Enforcement Discretion and Reform
In the next installment of our President and Immigration Law series, Tom Jawetz argues that an unnecessarily narrow concept of “enforcement" frames appropriate administrative…
Good Governance Paper No. 2: The Congressional Subpoena Power
[Editors’ note: This essay is one in a series—the Good Governance Papers—organized by Just Security. In these essays, leading experts explore actionable legislative and administrative…
Good Governance Paper No. 1: The Hatch Act Ban on Political Use of Government Resources
[Editors’ note: This essay is one in a series—the Good Governance Papers—organized by Just Security. In these essays, leading experts explore actionable legislative and administrative…
The Good Governance Papers: An Introduction
Just Security launches a series of concise essays exploring actionable proposals to restore and promote non-partisan principles of good government, public integrity, and the rule…
Estrangement Over Engagement: How the Trump Administration is Bucking Bipartisan Human Rights Diplomacy at the UN
The practice of the Trump administration turning its back on rights at the United Nations goes well beyond the Human Rights Council.
Early Edition: October 14, 2020
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Nonviolent Civic Action May Help Defend the Integrity of the Election
Media outlets, protestors, and officials will play essential roles in either exacerbating or alleviating tensions that can lead to violence.
The President and Immigration Law Series: The Consequences of the Free Rein of Enforcement on Borderlands Society
Next in our President and Immigration Law series, Josiah Heyman explores how an emphasis on enforcement transforms U.S. borderlands into enforcement zones of maximal executive…
The President and Immigration Law Series: The Urgent Need to Shrink Immigration Detention
Next in our series on The President and Immigration Law, Margo Schlanger argues that the current immigration detention regime – a co-production of Congress and the executive…
Trump’s Executive Order on the ICC is Illegal, Not Just Shameful
Significant First Amendment concerns are raised by the administration's sanctions against the International Criminal Court and against those who support the ICC's work.
Early Edition: October 13, 2020
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The President and Immigration Law Series: Executive Power Beyond Enforcement
Nicholas Espiritu cautions that presidential power goes beyond enforcement - and neither bureaucratic nor constitutional safeguards are sufficient to check these quasi-legislative…