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27 Mar 2020, 2:56 pm
In 2007, researchers published findings in the scientific journal PNAS showing how local governments mitigated outbreaks of the 1918 flu pandemic by aggressively limiting public gatherings. [read post]
23 May 2017, 10:45 am
” Last year on Lawfare, Benjamin Wittes and Zoe Bedell wrote about this case—in addition to a series of posts addressing the possibility of suing social media platforms as fostering terrorist organizations both in the abstract and practically, given a 2016 lawsuit against Twitter, Google, and Facebook filed for just that reason. [read post]
18 Nov 2019, 12:12 pm
Last month, we and another colleague at Protect Democracy argued that the meaning of “bribery” as the term is used in the Constitution goes beyond the criminal offense of bribery as defined in the U.S. [read post]
30 Oct 2017, 3:00 am
Benjamin Wittes will interview Landau. [read post]
14 Sep 2017, 5:30 am
Jane Chong and Benjamin Wittes have argued that Congress ought at least to initiate a careful examination of the case for impeachment before potentially having to cobble it together on the fly. [read post]
5 May 2016, 1:43 pm
Dozens of people were killed in an airstrike against a refugee camp in rebel-held northern Syria today. [read post]
28 Oct 2020, 8:38 am
Editor’s Note: Lawfare is not a public health law site, and normally, we would not run a piece on food and drug law and the authority of the FDA. [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 7:00 am
Prepared Testimony of Robert Chesney Charles I. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 8:46 am
And as Benjamin Wittes noted when the Mueller report was released in April 2019, the report itself set that speculation to rest—or, at least, should have: The special counsel’s work was focused on criminal violations only, and the counterintelligence portions of the investigation were passed back to the FBI. [read post]
22 May 2017, 9:19 am
” Likewise, Jack Goldsmith has taken the case of Rosenstein as an occasion to consider how the usual difficulties of serving with integrity as a government lawyer and political appointee are magnified under this most peculiar of administrations. [read post]
24 Sep 2018, 4:34 pm
The case concerns the court’s power to release material protected under grand jury secrecy, and has interesting implications for efforts by Benjamin Wittes, Jack Goldsmith, and Stephen Bates to unseal the impeachment “roadmap” prepared by Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski—as well as the possible release of any report prepared by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. [read post]
3 Apr 2019, 10:05 am
At 11:00 a.m. on March 1, 1974, lawyers and reporters gathered in Judge John Sirica’s courtroom in Washington. [read post]
18 Feb 2022, 7:54 am
On Jan. 31 and Feb. 5, The Washington Post reported that former President Trump routinely “tore up briefings and schedules, articles and letters, memos both sensitive and mundane” in violation of the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and that some of the records received by the Jan. 6 committee had been “ripped up and then taped back together. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 5:00 am
The national fight against the spread of the novel coronavirus demands a leader who can take charge of and defeat a grave threat, and who can put partisan politics aside to create a shared sense of national purpose. [read post]
18 May 2020, 1:52 pm
In the wake of Attorney General William Barr’s unprecedented decision to drop the Department of Justice’s years-long prosecution of former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn, many are asking: Is this the end of the case? [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 10:35 am
More to the point - you can argue for pretty much all of the reforms of the system that the op-ed calls for (some of the important ones of which I in fact support) without having to go back and make claims about the fundamental wrongness of the administration's legal judgments about the applicability of the laws of war.The cutting edge of discussion about counterterrorism policy today is, for example, Jack Goldsmith and Neal Katyal's joint call for a national security… [read post]
29 Dec 2020, 4:27 pm
Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare editor-in-chief and co-founder, and Jack Goldsmith, Lawfare co-founder and Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will join David Priess, chief operating officer at Lawfare, to answer questions about the clemency grants from Lawfare readers. [read post]
