Recent Articles
Recap of Recent Posts on Just Security (Mar. 4-Mar. 10)
I. The Travel Ban Executive Orders Shirin Sinnar, More Misleading Claims on Immigrants and Terrorism (Saturday, Mar. 4) David Cole, We’ll See You in Court, 2.0: Once a Muslim…
Iraq Is Off the Travel Ban List, But Iraqis Most in Need Not Helped by Trump’s New Order
In its revised executive order, the Trump administration dropped Iraq from the list of Muslim-majority countries for whom travel to the United States is suspended for 90 days.…
Some Realities Behind the Application for Revision Concerning Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) yesterday rejected an Application for Revision of the court’s judgment of February 26, 2007, that would reopen one of the most important…
Encryption Backdoors, Vault 7, and the Jurassic Park Rule of Internet Security
Surely without a hint of irony, just a day after WikiLeaks dumped a vault-load of documents detailing the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of hacking tools and software exploits,…
A Colleague’s Response to Finer and Malley on Obama’s Strategy Against Terrorism
The months since Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election have been a time for soul searching among those of us who served in the Obama Administration. Did our work…
Norms Watch: Tracking the Erosion of Democratic Traditions (Mar. 3-10)
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…
The “Travel Ban” Executive Order as Separation-of-Powers Test Case
The White House’s March 6 executive order “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States” (the March EO or the new EO) is a telling blend…
Keeping K2 (European Human Rights Court Decision on Citizenship-Stripping) in Perspective
Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg rejected as inadmissible an application by K2, a terror suspect born in Sudan but who acquired British citizenship…
The Early Edition: March 10, 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. The MUSLIM BAN…
A Supplement to Nicholas Kristof’s Ten Dots Connecting Trump to Russia
Nicholas Kristof has a valuable column this morning, “Connecting Trump’s Dots to Russia,” in which he lists ten “crucial” pieces of information that may indicate that…
European Court of Human Rights Decides UK Did Not Violate Human Rights When it Revoked Terror Suspect’s Citizenship
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that there was no human rights violation in the United Kingdom’s decision to strip a terror suspect of his British citizenship…
Who is Judge Gorsuch?
Over two weeks ago, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent Judge Gorsuch a letter asking about his role in 10 high-profile cases that…