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The only way States can avoid complicity in “arbitrary killings” under international human rights law is to refrain from sharing intelligence that, in part, enables them.

Clearly, U.S. actions are threatening to Venezuela. But do they amount to an unlawful threat under international law, or are they merely a lawful show of force?

By enacting IEEPA, did Congress authorize the president to impose tariffs? If so does, is that delegation of authority lawful?

Congress did not write IEEPA to allow a President to replace the income tax system with a patchwork of tariffs that they can impose, adjust, or suspend at will.

The administration's legal argument is both "incorrect and dangerous," writes Finucane.

Expert backgrounder on how War Powers Resolution works in application to U.S. military operations against suspected drug cartels.

The deal circumvents the Appropriations Clause and congressional safeguards designed to enforce it, creating a system answerable only to the White House.

The two determinations are mutually exclusive; it is legally impossible to maintain both simultaneously.

Congress and the public must do more to address the dangerous pressures imposed on servicemembers and defend the guardrails that protect both U.S. forces and democracy.

Tess Bridgeman is joined by Rebecca Ingber and Brian Finucane to assess the latest strikes, the brief detention of two survivors, where the campaign may be headed, and what…

The Trump administration's use of export controls as leverage in trade diplomacy creates risks for key U.S. national security interests.

Reasons for historical deference to the executive branch's judgement in matters of national security and foreign affairs have been severely undermined.