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The “Leahy Law” Prohibiting US Assistance to Human Rights Abusers: Pulling Back the Curtain
With almost weekly news reports of US support for foreign governments with track records of gross human rights abuse—think torture in Yemen by Emirati security forces, violations…
The Early Edition: June 27, 2017
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. SYRIA “The United States…
Ron Wyden Lights the Batsignal
There’s a reason privacy advocates are fond of Sen. Ron Wyden, and its not just because he routinely champions legislation aimed at protecting civil liberties. From his…
Did the Supreme Court Tip Its Hand on How It Will Rule on the Travel Ban?
Today, the Supreme Court partially stayed and partially upheld the lower court injunctions in the travel ban litigation. The way in which the Court split the baby is perhaps the…
National Security-Related Congressional Hearings, June 26-June 30
Monday, June 26 3:00pm – Senate Armed Services Committee – Markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Closed) (here) Tuesday, June…
It’s All About that Stay (and Its Surprising Limits)
Preliminary thoughts (reserving the right to add more as the day goes on!): The Court nominally granted certiorari in the two “travel ban” cases today, but for reasons…
Not the Time for the Sounds of Silence
My father was on a death march through Yugoslavia when liberated by Tito’s partisans in November 1944. My mother was in a courtyard in Budapest waiting to be executed by a firing…
Tillerson’s “Peaceful” Regime Change for Iran: Really? And What Comes Next?
At this point in our internecine political discourse, it is increasingly rare for foreign policy stories to survive more than a single news cycle unless they involve Russia. …
The Early Edition: June 26, 2017
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. IRAN Senior officials and…
Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (June 17-23)
I. The Trump Administration’s Civil Service Ned Price, Hyping the Terrorist Threat: Trump Makes an Old Problem Worse (Friday, June 23) II. The Trump-Russia Investigations…
Norms Watch: Democracy, the Trump Administration, and Reactions to It (June 16-June 23)
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the latest installment of Norms Watch, our series tracking both the flouting of democratic norms by the Trump administration and the erosion of…
Congress’s 2001 AUMF as Legal Basis for US Shootdown of Syrian Jet
It is not that much of a stretch to say that Congress’s 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) provides a legal basis for the U.S. shootdown of a Syrian jet,…