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Impeachment Trial and Legal Ethics: Cipollone Should Be a Witness, Not a Trump Lawyer
Top legal ethics expert, Stephen Gillers, raises an issue hiding in plain site.

The Early Edition: January 27, 2020
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Recap of Recent Articles on Just Security (Jan 20-24)
Our analysis on impeachment, plus Iran, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine before the International Criminal Court, FISA reform, and more.

Hearsay and the Impeachment Trial
How big an issue is it that the Senate will allow hearsay objections as a basis to exclude evidence from the record?

Constitutional Crabgrass: President Trump’s Defenders Distort the Impeachment Clause
Leading scholar on history of impeachment pens a scathing critique of Dershowitz argument. Calls it "brazenly wrong."

The Early Edition: January 24, 2020
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What Sort of “Abuse of Power” Would Amount to an Impeachable Offense?
Philip Bobbitt writes that the Ukraine allegations amount to an impeachable abuse of power, but not the way some have framed it.

U.S. Counterterrorism Rule Hampers Vital Humanitarian Aid in Nigeria
The requirement significantly complicates the situation for aid workers in northeastern Nigeria, one of the world’s gravest humanitarian crises.

Pumping the Brakes a Bit on FISA “Reform”
Critics of FISA on both the left and the right are seizing on the DOJ inspector general's report as an opportunity to significantly alter FISA.

International Criminal Court and the Question of Palestine’s Statehood: Part II
Ambassador (ret.) Todd F. Buchwald dissects the most vexing issues as to whether the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to hear Palestine's case.

The Early Edition: January 23, 2020
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Compilation of States’ Reactions to U.S. and Iranian Uses of Force in Iraq in January 2020
A comprehensive guide to every state in the world's reaction to the U.S. operation killing of Qassem Soleimani and to the Iranian military response.