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7 Jan 2012, 8:29 am
William Shawcross’s widely-noticed new book, Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, asks the following: how does a civilized society bring justice to mass murderers, al Qaeda and its adherents, when it has not already killed them, but holds them captive in its hands? [read post]
17 May 2012, 7:55 am
Benjamin Wittes believes that “Latif offers the detainee bar its best opportunity yet to get the D.C. [read post]
25 Jan 2012, 3:56 am
Laura Pitter of Human Rights Watch responds to my criticisms of her coverage of the Al Nashiri motions hearing: Benjamin Wittes is correct in concluding that I (and Human Rights Watch) share his desire to see fair trials for Guantanamo detainees. [read post]
12 Jul 2018, 5:06 am
” At Lawfare, Benjamin Wittes agrees, maintaining that Kavanaugh’s extra-judicial writings about presidential investigations, highlighting as a “salient fact … that Kavanaugh has articulated a vision of a legitimate and appropriate investigation under our constitutional scheme and that it looks so much like the Mueller structure—and that he believes that the president of the United States has no common-law privileges before such an investigation. [read post]
17 May 2007, 9:00 pm
Then there's Scalia's opinion in Blakely, which inspired The Atlantic's Benjamin Wittes to write:In the incoherence of its principle, the awesome scope of its impact, and its sheer contempt for so many different institutions in American life, Blakely stands out as the single most irresponsible decision in the modern history of the Supreme Court.In Blakely, Justice Scalia went overboard with the italics (really, subtlety isn't his strong suit)… [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm
As Benjamin Wittes explains in a chapter of my book, Constitutional Law Stories, the legal strategy did not fail because the Bush lawyers misread the World War II-era cases. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 11:38 am
(Lawfare, a project of the Brookings Institution and Harvard Law School, and founded by Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney, and Jack Goldsmith, is the go-to online daily journal on national security law; careful, measured, never crazy, and scrupulous about separating objective description from prescriptive comment. [read post]
10 May 2010, 9:29 am
Benjamin Wittes. [read post]
27 Feb 2019, 7:15 am
You may have never heard of Cloudflare and you may be wondering what the company has to do with music, technology or policy. [read post]
15 May 2023, 9:05 pm
As Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently observed, the United States has not defaulted on its national debt since its founding in 1789, and we should not start now.[1] She also pointed out that Congress has raised the statutory ceiling to pay the debts that it has authorized almost 80 times since 1960.[2] This time might be different, however, because Republicans, with a bare majority in the House, are playing a sustained game of chicken with the White House. [read post]
5 Apr 2024, 6:05 am
(Editor’s Note: This is part of a series on the FISA Section 702 reauthorization and reform debate.) [read post]
28 Jun 2020, 8:19 am
Danielle Citron and Benjamin Wittes have argued that the protection of Section 230 should be narrowed, to the point where it would only be available to those who make “reasonable efforts” to moderate the content on their platforms (although how to define what is reasonable is not spelled out). [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 5:11 am
Wheeler posted: While I often disagree with Benjamin Wittes, I rarely think the stuff he writes is sheer nonsense. [read post]
9 Jan 2010, 2:37 pm
It is a point that both Waxman and Benjamin Wittes make in Shane Harris' National Journal article. [read post]
13 Jul 2018, 1:36 pm
Others, including Benjamin Wittes at Lawfare and Noah Feldman at Bloomberg, have argued that the article, in fact, shows that Kavanaugh would take the opposite position. [read post]
5 Apr 2010, 7:09 pm
In March of 2010, the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library updated its "Same-Sex Marriage in Minnesota" resource. [read post]
15 May 2016, 4:20 pm
The media news this week was dominated by the release of the long awaited White Paper, A BBC for the future: a broadcaster of distinction [pdf] . [read post]
22 Nov 2019, 2:05 pm
I hope the following links, excerpts, comments, and reflections (in no particular order) will prove of interest for one reason or another to our readers. [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 10:24 am
October 12, 2007Re: Although The Conventional Wisdom Of The Pols And The Mainstream Media Have Now Anointed Him A Hero, In Truth Jack Goldsmith Stands Convicted Out Of His Own Mouth As Well As By Recent Events.Dear Colleagues: By Thursday, October 4th, I had been doing preparatory work for roughly three weeks in order to write about Jack Goldsmith's new book, The Terror Presidency ("TP"), which deals mainly with Goldsmith's work as head of the Office of Legal Counsel of the… [read post]