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27 Feb 2019, 7:15 am by Chris Castle
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 by Kate Mancuso
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 by Allan Blutstein
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]
29 Oct 2018, 9:04 am by Alan J. Borsuk
Azari, associate professor of political science at Marquette University and a scholar of the American presidency; and Benjamin Wittes, editor in chief of Lawfare and senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. [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]
23 Sep 2018, 10:56 am by Tom Smith
" In The Atlantic, Brookings Institution scholar Benjamin Wittes took the argument to its illogical extreme. [read post]
23 Sep 2018, 3:07 am by SHG
At the Atlantic, Benjamin Wittes argues that the burden of persuasion falls on Brett Kavanaugh. [read post]
22 Sep 2018, 2:16 pm by Howard Wasserman
In The Atllantic, Benjamin Wittes addresses the issues of burden and standard of proof with respect to Brett Kavanaugh, the allegations against him, and his confirmation. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 9:29 pm by Ryan Mulvey
Anderson & Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare, Aug. 30, 2018This past Tuesday, congressional candidate and former CIA officer Abigail Spanberger announced that her political opponents appeared to have acquired a copy of her SF-86, a form used by the federal government to collect sensitive personal information from job applicants for background checks and security clearances. [read post]
15 Aug 2018, 3:50 am by Edith Roberts
” At The Atlantic, Benjamin Wittes laments that “Kavanaugh is preponderantly likely to be confirmed by the Senate, yet for all the wrong reasons”: “not because of any of his virtues, though he has many virtues,” but “because Republicans right now have the raw political power to confirm him on their own. [read post]
13 Jul 2018, 1:36 pm by Kevin Russell
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]
13 Jul 2018, 7:05 am by Ilya Somin
" But as, Harvard law professor Noah Feldman and Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institution explain, liberal fears are likely misplaced. [read post]
12 Jul 2018, 5:06 am by Edith Roberts
” 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]
11 May 2018, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
  Nicola Peart, University of Otago, on Ethel Benjamin, New Zealand’s first female barrister and solicitor. [read post]
2 May 2018, 2:22 pm by Howard Bashman
” Steve Vladeck and Benjamin Wittes have this post at the “Lawfare” blog. [read post]