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1 Nov 2020, 4:00 pm
I’m reminded of the old Benjamin Franklin quote: “Those who give up liberty for security deserve neither. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 9:30 pm
John Fabian Witt's American Contagions reviews (NYT). [read post]
30 Sep 2020, 7:24 pm
” Anna Salvatore and Benjamin Wittes have this post at the “Lawfare” blog. [read post]
3 Aug 2020, 4:00 am
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]
22 Jul 2020, 11:28 am
To discuss this new information and its implications, David Priess spoke with not only the two authors of the article—Lawfare's editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes and University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck—but also Carrie Cordero, senior fellow and general counsel at the Center for a New American Security, who has researched and written extensively on DHS authorities and policies, and Paul Rosenzweig, senior fellow for National Security & Cybersecurity at… [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]
17 Apr 2020, 9:30 pm
The officers of the American Society for Legal History write to say that all of the Society's prizes will be awarded this year as usual with a submission deadline of June 1.ICYMI: Adam Klein and Benjamin Wittes on The Long History of Coercive Health Responses in American Law over at Lawfare. [read post]
7 Mar 2020, 6:13 am
Despite the belief shared by many prominent legal scholars, like Benjamin Wittes (the editor-in-chief of Lawfare) that the President is indeed the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, this does not mean that Trump can force Attorney General Barr to act in the Roger Stone (or any other case) as the president wishes. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 1:10 pm
The Disintegration of the American Presidency By Susan Hennessey, Executive Editor, Lawfare and Benjamin Wittes, Editor in Chief, Lawfare Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes look at the theory of the unitary executive and describe how Donald Trump is breaking the normal constitutional structure, and the problem it—and resistance to it—poses. [read post]
20 Dec 2019, 1:48 pm
The Constitution does not specify rules of evidence, and as Hilary Hurd and Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare recently wrote, neither do the Senate rules for impeachment trials. [read post]
2 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm
”As to the first of these elements—that of intent—Benjamin Wittes of the Lawfare blog and others assert that soliciting “investigations of political foes for personal political gain is prototypically corrupt. [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]
2 Jun 2019, 11:27 pm
[1]https://www.ted.com/talks/yuval_noah_harari_why_fascism_is_so_tempting_and_how_your_data_could_power_it [2] https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf [3]Benjamin Wittes explains that counterintelligence information, analysis, and conclusions were left within the FBI, rather than handled by the Special Counsel’s office. [read post]
13 May 2019, 7:14 pm
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]
4 May 2019, 7:12 pm
” At Lawfare, Mikhaila Fogel and Benjamin Wittes wrote: “[I]t is not an exaggeration to say that Barr’s entire memo is predicated on two broad assumptions: first, that he knows Mueller’s legal theory, and second, that he understands the fact pattern that Mueller is investigating… Neither assumption is, in our judgment, warranted. [read post]
3 May 2019, 6:51 am
Benjamin Wittes, of the Brookings Instiution and Lawfare, is not exactly a radical bomb-thrower, so this assessment is all the more damning. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 3:00 am
When the Harvard Law professor teamed up with University of Texas at Austin law professor Robert Chesney ’97 and Brookings Institution writer Benjamin Wittes to... [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]
8 Nov 2018, 9:30 pm
Jeff Sessions’s departure as Attorney General marks a “profoundly dangerous moment” in the investigation of President Trump’s possible ties to Russia, wrote Mikhaila Fogel, Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic, Matthew Kahn, Anushka Limaye, and Benjamin Wittes in an article for Lawfare. [read post]
1 Nov 2018, 8:31 pm
Anderson & Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare, Nov. 1, 2018Late on Friday, we received the first set of responsive documents to our “meta-FOIA request” regarding the release of congressional candidate—and former postal inspector and CIA officer—Abigail Spanberger’s unredacted SF-86 form. [read post]