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Immigration Is Not an “Invasion” under the Constitution

The claim that a large increase in the number of migrants gaining entry at the southern border is an “invasion” is constitutional nonsense.
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Poland: Why Rule of Law Matters as the Country Faces a Pivotal Election

Poland must return to a full respect for the rule of law to strengthen its own security and that of the European Union.
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National Security Law and the Originalist Myth

Any genuine project of national security reform requires more than reviving a fictive eighteenth century of checks and balances. It instead entails treating foreign interventionism…
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Analyzing Previously Undisclosed Use of Force Reports: Challenges of Congressional Oversight of the War on Terror

The executive branch, through noncompliance and defiance, has delayed providing Congress with sufficient information on the war on terror.
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The Government’s Section 702 Playbook Doesn’t Work Anymore

Imposing robust safeguards for searches of Americans' communications in the FISA Section 702 program should be an easy path to preserving the program's intelligence value when…
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How Military Leaders Can Navigate a Crisis of Democracy: Lessons from the Reservist Protests in Israel

Leaders must communicate carefully with the public and subordinates, and minimize damage to the military, without adding to societal tension.
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The House Tackles Zombie War Authorizations: Possibilities and Perils

Congress is trying to reassert itself after more than two decades of acquiescence to executive branch overreach on matters of war and peace.
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DeSantis Campaign’s Border Proposal Raises Separation of Powers Concerns

Florida governor and U.S. presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has proposed action that would flout constitutional and statutory limits.
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Recovering a Role for the Courts in Decisions to Wage War: How Congress Can Overcome the Political Question Doctrine (Some of the Time)

Congress should consider when and how the laws it enacts will be enforced and take steps to empower members of Congress to effectively challenge illegal wars in court.
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Dispelling Myths: How Classification and Declassification Actually Work

Must the president follow any specific procedures when declassifying government information? The answer is a resounding no.
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The Just Security Podcast: The Classification Process Declassified

To help us understand how the presidential classification and declassification process works in practice, we have Brian Greer and Wendy Leben.
President Jimmy Carter participates in the swearing-in ceremony for Patricia Derian, Virginia McCarty and Eleanor Holmes Norton at the White House on June 17, 1977. (Photo by White House Staff Photographers, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

The Power of Jimmy Carter’s Vision for Universal Human Rights

There was a time when the US didn't promote human rights or even consider it much of an objective in foreign policy at all.
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