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Letter to the Editor: There Is Much More to a Civilian Casualty Investigation than Eyewitness Accounts
I applaud and agree with Sarah Knuckey’s, Ole Solvang’s, Jonathan Horowitz’s and Radhya Almutawakel’s recent post (“Pentagon Admits Major Investigation Flaw: imeshey…
Back to the Supreme Court on the Scope of the Entry Ban Injunction: First Thoughts
Thursday night, Judge Watson issued a ruling rejecting two of the ways in which the government has interpreted the Supreme Court’s modification of the preliminary injunctions…
The Early Edition: July 17, 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. TRUMP-RUSSIA INVESTIGATION…
Trump Tower Meeting Helps Show Collusion Up To Election Day
Just Security’s Rolf Mowatt-Larssen and Ryan Goodman make the following points. Knowing about the Trump Tower meeting with Russians on June 9, 2016, we can now understand much…
Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (July 7-14)
I. Trump Tower Russia Meeting Bob Bauer, Considering the Legal Defenses of the Trump Jr. Meeting (Friday, July 14) Daniel P. Tokaji, What Trump Jr. Did Was Bad, But It Probably…
A Brief Guide to the New Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty
The majority of the world’s countries just adopted a new treaty banning nuclear weapons, placing them in the same category of international law as other weapons of mass destruction…
David Cole on Stopping Authoritarianism’s Rise in the United States
Since becoming National Legal Director of the ACLU, Just Security editorial board member David Cole has been spending a lot of time in Just Security’s home base of New…
A Guide to this Week’s News Coverage of Trump Jr.’s Russia Meeting
The Russia-Trump story accelerated this week as it was revealed that Don Jr.’s now infamous June 9 meeting at Trump Tower had little to do with adoptions, as he first claimed.…
If You’re Teaching National Security or Counterterrorism Law in the Next Year…
…then I’m very pleased to share the details for the 2017-2018 Supplement to Stephen Dycus et al., National Security Law (6th ed. 2016) and Counterterrorism Law (3d…
Norms Watch: Democracy, the Trump Administration, and Reactions to It (July 7-July 14)
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…
Considering the Legal Defenses of the Trump Jr. Meeting
A number of good legal commentaries have challenged rushing to judgment on the legal implications of the Trump campaign meeting with the Russian government. It is entirely fair…
What Trump Jr. Did Was Bad, But It Probably Didn’t Violate Federal Campaign Finance Law
The disclosure of emails documenting Donald Trump, Jr.’s arrangement of a meeting with Natalia Veselnitskay has lots of people asking whether he or the Trump campaign violated…