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13 May 2019, 7:14 pm by Allan Blutstein
Anderson, Lawfare, May 13, 2019Last year, one of us filed a “meta-FOIA” request with Benjamin Wittes seeking information on how former CIA officer and then-congressional candidate (now congresswoman) Abigail Spanberger’s unredacted SF-86 form was released in response to a right-wing advocacy group’s FOIA request. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 5:06 am
by Kenneth Anderson Ben Wittes, who has guest-blogged with OJ in the past, has a blistering op-ed in yesterday’s Washington Post, criticizing, well, just about everyone for the failure to take the policy issues of detention to Congress to craft a formal structure for addressing them. [read post]
3 Aug 2020, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
From SSRN:John Witte, Historical Foundations and Enduring Fundamentals of American Religious Freedom, (Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 33 (2020): 156-167).John Witte, The Metaphorical Bridge between Law and Religion, (Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, 2020).John Witte, Response to Reviewers of John Witte, Jr., Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties, (Journal of Law and Religion 34 (2019):… [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… [read post]
6 Oct 2018, 7:16 pm by Walter Olson
Susan Collins (R-Maine) explained her vote in a widely noted speech [video and transcript] Commentary: Politico symposium with Ilya Shapiro, Ilya Somin, and others; David French (pro) and Benjamin Wittes (con) views of confirmation; point-counterpoint on Kavanaugh’s final hearing testimony from David Post (critical of nominee), Eugene Volokh response, David Post rejoinder. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 10:46 am by Kenneth Anderson
Right on top of my debate with Notre Dame’s Mary Ellen O’Connell on this at Washington University two weeks ago, Professor O’Connell and the Brookings Institution’s (and Hoover Institution’s) Benjamin Wittes undertook another one, this past Saturday at International Law Weekend in New York. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 7:17 am by Mary L. Dudziak
Over at Lawfare, Benjamin Wittes found my op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times, on Obama’s double-take on the nature of our current war era, to be “perplexing. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 8:39 am by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes have been arguing for several days now at the Lawfare blog that the Obama administration should release either the Justice Department opinion approving the Al-Awlaki attack, suitably redacted, or some statement that puts out in some detail its legal reasoning. [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 3:46 pm by Kenneth Anderson
”  — from the Introduction Benjamin Wittes issues a persuasive call for greater coherence, clarity, and public candor from the American government regarding its detention policy and practices, and greater citizen awareness of the same. [read post]
23 Oct 2011, 11:25 am by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) Benjamin Wittes at Lawfare has been keeping a running track of factual difficulties in Times editorials over the last year dealing with Guantanamo detention and other terrorism related issues. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 1:11 pm by Benjamin Wittes
By Benjamin Wittes & Ritika Singh The Commission then takes up defense motion AE016, which objects to government monitoring of defense computers for purposes of cybersecurity. [read post]
19 Sep 2007, 5:13 am
Yesterday's panel discussion that I moderated with Slate's Dahlia Lithwick, Legal Times' Tony Mauro, and the Brookings Institution's Benjamin Wittes, was a journalism-centric kickoff to today's First Amendment address by Chief Justice John Roberts here at Syracuse University. [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 6:22 pm by Kenneth Anderson
Anyone doing serious work on detention, Guantanamo, war on terror, any of these areas, will want to read an extraordinary new study just out from the Brookings Institution by Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney, and Rabea Benhalim, The Emerging Law of Detention: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 12:19 pm by Randy Barnett
(Randy Barnett) In addition to the new article by Jim Lindgren blogged about below, Larry Solum has the scoop today on new articles by Michael Dorf (Cornell) on A Theory of the Constitution, Mark Tushnet (Harvard Law School) on Taking the Law Away from the Courts, Benjamin Wittes (Brookings Institution) on Defamation and Treason in the Early Republic, Heather Gerken (Yale University — Law School) on Concurring by Nondecision, and Richard Posner (United States Court of Appeal… [read post]
10 May 2015, 6:20 pm
And at the "Lawfare" blog, Benjamin Wittes has a post titled "A Few Thoughts on the Second Circuit's 215 Decision and Its Importance. [read post]
19 Nov 2017, 6:38 am by Andrew Koppelman
Chen, Danielle Keats Citron & Benjamin Wittes, Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Caroline Mala Corbin, David S. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 6:54 am by Mark Tushnet
At Lawfare, Benjamin Wittes expresses puzzlement at the conservative "hang-up" (his word) on "why ... so many conservatives [are] so married to the idea that detention or military justice is the right answer" to the question of what to do now that the (alleged -- what do I know beyond the news reports?) [read post]
21 Jan 2012, 2:11 pm by Kenneth Anderson
 (Benjamin Wittes, Jack Goldsmith, and I are members of the Hoover Task Force that commissioned the paper.) [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 12:58 pm by Ritika Singh
By Benjamin Wittes & Ritika Singh The last issue on the agenda is that of the trial schedule. [read post]
3 Sep 2010, 2:48 pm by Orin Kerr
(Orin Kerr) Three important voices in national security law — Jack Goldsmith, Bobby Chesney, and Benjamin Wittes — have launched a new blog: LAWFARE: Hard National Security Choices. [read post]