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30 Jan 2017, 11:45 am by Michael Froomkin
Benjamin Wittes–no leftie he–on the Trump immigration ban: I don’t use the word “malevolence” here lightly. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 11:15 am by Jordan Brunner
Benjamin Wittes dissected the malevolence and legal incompetence behind Trump’s refugee executive order. [read post]
29 Jan 2017, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
John Witte, Jr., Sara McDougall, and Anna di Robilant (Berkeley, CA: Robbins Collection, 2016), 257-275:Through a close textual reading and contextual analysis of a short series of early fourteenth-century manorial court roll entries, this paper draws larger conclusions about the interplay between law and equity in a medieval English manor court. [read post]
29 Jan 2017, 10:24 am by Jonathan Hafetz
Ben Wittes has catalogued the chaos and confusion surrounding the order, which excluded lawyers and other officials in the executive branch with  relevant expertise. [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 10:40 am by Quinta Jurecic
Benjamin Wittes spoke with Stephanie Leutert, the Mexico Security Initiative Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and writer of Lawfare's "Beyond the Border" series, to chat about what the wall might look like, how effective it will or won't be, and what this means for U.S. [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 6:18 am by Jordan Brunner
Quinta Jurecic flagged the video and transcript of Trump’s speech and the various reactions to it, and Benjamin Wittes expressed curiosity as to why the White House characterized the political opinions of apolitical career CIA employees after the speech. [read post]
27 Jan 2017, 10:28 am by Jordan Brunner
Benjamin Wittes posted the Rational Security Podcast: The “Centennial” Edition. [read post]
27 Jan 2017, 6:02 am
The instinct to condemn it outright is modified by the realization that it is a detail from the painting "The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers" which is on display in the Rijksmuseum. [read post]
26 Jan 2017, 10:48 am by Quinta Jurecic
The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5-7 pm on Wednesday, February 1, when Benjamin Wittes will interview Edward Jay Epstein on his new book, How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft. [read post]
24 Jan 2017, 11:03 am by Quinta Jurecic
As Benjamin Wittes and I noted a few weeks ago, these past few weeks have produced some interesting litigation activity regarding the Senate Intelligence Committee’s interrogation report. [read post]
24 Jan 2017, 10:47 am by Jordan Brunner
Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes posted the latest Hoover Book Soiree: Edward Jay Epstein and “How America Lost Its Secrets. [read post]
23 Jan 2017, 11:36 am by Jordan Brunner
On the Lawfare Podcast, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Stewart Baker and Amie Stepanovich to discuss his new paper with Emma Kohse. [read post]
21 Jan 2017, 10:30 am by Quinta Jurecic
On January 13th, Benjamin Wittes and Emma Kohse released a new paper challenging the assumption that "privacy is an eroding value," worn away by the incessant collection of online data about consumer habits. [read post]
21 Jan 2017, 7:00 am by Jordan Brunner
As Friday neared, President Obama chose as one of his last acts the commutation of her sentence, which Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey praised, and from which Paul Rosenzweig dissented. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 9:05 am by Jordan Brunner, Quinta Jurecic
Benjamin Wittes posted the Rational Security Podcast: The “Four Horsemen” Edition. [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 9:46 am by Jordan Brunner, Quinta Jurecic
Benjamin Wittes presented six thoughts in defense of FBI Director James Comey. [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 2:59 am by Walter Olson
This time it’s Twitter and IS attacks in Paris, Brussels [Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare; Tim Cushing, Techdirt] More: And yet another (Dallas police officer versus Twitter, Facebook, and Google); “Woman Sues Chipotle for $2 Billion for Using a Photo of Her Without Consent” [Petapixel] “Hot-Yoga Guy and His Cars Are Missing” [Lowering the Bar, earlier] From Backpage.com to unpopular climate advocacy, state attorneys general use subpoena power to punish and chill… [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 1:03 pm by Quinta Jurecic , Jordan Brunner
  ICYMI: This (Long) Weekend, on Lawfare Benjamin Wittes posted the Lawfare Podcast,  featuring Jack Goldsmith’s interview of Jameel Jaffer on his new book The Drone Memos. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 8:30 am by J. Dana Stuster
As Brookings’ Tamara Cofman Wittes noted on last week’s episode of Rational Security, “[T]his is an issue on which Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, and the people around Trump, seem to share an approach, which is to see the Muslim Brotherhood on a continuum with determinedly violent terrorist adversaries of the United States, like al-Qaeda and ISIS, and indeed to argue that there’s really no difference between the Muslim Brotherhood and those groups. [read post]