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20 Dec 2021, 10:11 am by becassidy
A 2019 article by Elizabeth Goitein lays out the alarming scope of a President’s Emergency Powers. [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 10:10 am by Elizabeth McElvein
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Elizabeth Goitein of the Liberty and National Security Program and the Brennan Center for Justice urged lawmakers to terminate the CDR program and the lone wolf program, citing the NSA’s compliance issues on the former and the limited utility of the latter. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 7:23 am by Ryan Scoville
” And in 2016, Elizabeth Goitein used FOIA to reveal that the executive branch entered a minimum of 807 unpublished agreements—both classified and unclassified—from 2004 through 2014. [read post]
4 Nov 2019, 1:35 pm by Gordon Ahl, William Ford
The second panel will include Adam Klein, the chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board; Jamil Jaffer, the executive director of the National Security Institute at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School; and Elizabeth Goitein, the director of the liberty and national security program at the Brennan Center for Justice. [read post]
6 Oct 2019, 2:29 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Eight blue-ribbon U.S. government commissions have addressed the subject since World War II, Elizabeth Goitein, a veteran transparency advocate, told me. [read post]
16 Feb 2019, 5:18 am
Trump is relying upon, and his administration argues that this means he is exercising authority that lawmakers wanted the presidency to be able to wield.But Elizabeth Goitein, who oversaw the Brennan Center study [of presidents' use of the emergency power, said]... [read post]
7 Jan 2019, 3:58 pm by Margaret Taylor
As the government shutdown drags on, President Trump has made multiple statements hinting that, if Congress refuses to appropriate $5.6 billion in new appropriations to fund a wall along the southern border, he will declare a national emergency in order to access existing Pentagon funds for the effort. [read post]
7 Jan 2019, 1:50 pm by Ilya Somin
Elizabeth Goitein of the Brennan Center has collected a daunting list of statutes authorizing emergency powers, which is super helpful on this point. [read post]
7 Jan 2019, 9:08 am by Guest Blogger
Elizabeth Goitein of the Brennan Center has collected a daunting list of statutes authorizing emergency powers, which is super helpful on this point. [read post]
19 Dec 2018, 3:01 am by Walter Olson
Kevin Parker’s proposal: Scott Greenfield, and my earlier; Concerning an issue that Cato has warned about for many, many years, the emergency powers of the President [Elizabeth Goitein/The Atlantic, related video] Web accessibility suits hit colleges [Rick Karlin, Albany Times-Union], New York wineries [Brianne Garrett, Wine Spectator, Kathleen Willcox, Wine Searcher, Thomas Pellechia, Forbes], other defendants around New York [Stephen Rex Brown, New York Daily News,… [read post]
5 Dec 2018, 3:24 pm by Steven D. Schwinn
Check out Elizabeth Goitein's piece in The Atlantic on the president's statutory emergency powers, and their potential misuse. [read post]
26 Aug 2018, 4:15 pm by Howard Bashman
“Americans’ Privacy at Stake as Second Circuit Hears Hasbajrami FISA Case”: Elizabeth Goitein has this post at “Just Security. [read post]
12 May 2018, 7:01 am by Rachel Bercovitz
Responding to an April 25 post by Chesney, Elizabeth Goitein fleshed out her view that the Corker-Kaine AUMF would lead the U.S. to claim AUMF justification for an attack on Iran. [read post]
8 May 2018, 12:13 pm by Hayley Evans
   Elizabeth Goitein responded to Robert Chesney’s April 25 critique of an op-ed arguing that the Corker-Kaine AUMF could be used to attack a nation state, reasserting her belief that the bill could be misused to justify military strikes against Iran. [read post]
25 Apr 2018, 11:19 am by Robert Chesney
If we click on the link above, we see that the criticism of the bill they have in mind is an op-ed from Elizabeth Goitein of the Brennan Center, who wrote the following on Defense One last week: And while the bill would not authorize the president to add nation-states to the list, it would permit an easy runaround: by characterizing strikes on countries where terrorists operate — or like Iran, are designated as state sponsors of terrorism — as sanctioned… [read post]
24 Feb 2018, 5:57 am by William Ford
Elizabeth Goitein and Robert Litt offered five proposals for increasing the transparency and accountability in Section 702 surveillance. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 12:52 pm by William Ford
Elizabeth Goitein and Robert Litt offered five suggestions for increasing Section 702’s transparency and accountability. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 10:24 am by Matthew Kahn
Gates Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security (Testimony)  Elizabeth Goitein, Co-Director, Liberty & National Security Program, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law (Testimony) Elisebeth Collins, Board Member, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (Testimony) [read post]
16 Jun 2017, 9:45 am by Anne Boustead
  For example, Elizabeth Goitein of the Brennan Center for Justice has suggested classifying communications as being to or from U.S. persons if they originate from the U.S. country code (in the case of phone communications) or from a U.S. [read post]
18 May 2017, 7:22 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“Don’t Be So Quick to Call Those Disclosures ‘Legal‘ by Elizabeth Goitein, Just Security, May 17, 2017 “Why Trump’s Disclosure to Russia (and Urging Comey to Drop the Flynn Investigation, and Various Other Actions) Could Be Unlawful” by Marty Lederman and David Pozen, Just Security, May 17, 2017 “Trump’s disclosures to the Russians might actually have been illegal” by Steve Vladeck, Washington Post, May 16, 2017 [read post]