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27 Jun 2020, 4:07 am by Matt Gluck, Tia Sewell
Howell also shared a discussion on the Lawfare Podcast between Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes, Jack Goldsmith, and Marty Lederman covering the government’s legal arguments in its effort to obtain a temporary restraining order (TRO) to prevent the publication and distribution of John Bolton’s book. [read post]
13 Jun 2020, 9:31 am by Elliot Setzer
Jack Goldsmith outlined a constitutional response to Trump’s firing of inspectors general. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 2:35 pm by Masha Simonova
On June 1, police, along with the National Guard, rammed protestors and hit them with shields and batons to clear a path through Lafayette Square so that President Trump could make his way to St. [read post]
11 Jun 2020, 1:12 pm by Chas Kissick
Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of Rational Security, in which Tamara Cofman Wittes, Shane Harris, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes discuss the government’s response to protests against police violence in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. [read post]
6 Jun 2020, 7:16 am by Elliot Setzer
Patja Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast in which Jack Goldsmith spoke with Bart Gellman, author of the new book, “Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State”: Stewart Baker also shared an episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast featuring an interview with Bart Gellman: Setzer shared Judge Emmet Sullivan’s brief submitted to the D.C. [read post]
19 May 2020, 1:30 pm by Jen Patja Howell
To discuss the Trump administration's removals of inspectors general, Benjamin Wittes spoke with Mike Bromwich, who was the inspector general of the Justice Department during the Clinton administration; Jack Goldsmith, professor at Harvard, who wrote a piece on Lawfare about the legality of removals of inspectors general; and congressional guru Margaret Taylor, who examines the congressional reaction to the moves. [read post]
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]
6 May 2020, 5:00 am by Christine Kwon
Disclosure: The author works for Protect Democracy, which has represented Lawfare editors Benjamin Wittes, Jack Goldsmith, Scott Anderson and Susan Hennessey on a number of separate matters. [read post]
2 May 2020, 8:39 am by Elliot Setzer
And Benjamin Wittes shared an invitation to a Lawfare Live discussion with Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods on that recent Atlantic essay. [read post]
30 Apr 2020, 9:53 am by Elliot Setzer
ICYMI: Yesterday on Lawfare Benjamin Wittes shared an invitation to a Lawfare Live discussion with Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods on their recent essay on internet speech and surveillance today, April 30, at 11:00a.m. [read post]
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]
28 Mar 2020, 8:41 am by Elliot Setzer
Jordan Schneider shared an episode of ChinaTalk featuring an interview with Sinocism’s Bill Bishop on the Chinese domestic politics of coronavirus: Schneider also shared an episode of ChinaTalk discussing how Chinese government fundamentals impact health care and national security: Jack Goldsmith and Ben Miller-Gootnick argued that the Presidential Succession Act is a disaster waiting to happen. [read post]
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]
It is a fundamental principle in our country that nobody is above the law, not even the president. [read post]
1 Mar 2020, 6:03 am by Elliot Setzer
Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith discussed how to reform the pardon power. [read post]
15 Feb 2020, 11:01 am by Hadley Baker, Elliot Setzer
And Jack Goldsmith shared an obituary of his step-father Charles Lenton O’Brien, long-time suspect in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa and the subject of Goldsmith's recent book, who passed away on Feb. 13. [read post]
22 Jan 2020, 5:06 am by Randy Beck, John Langford
As Jack Goldsmith explains, “[O]ur country has—through presidential aggrandizement accompanied by congressional authorization, delegation, and acquiescence—given one person, the president, a sprawling military and enormous discretion to use it in ways that can easily lead to a massive war. [read post]
7 Jan 2020, 1:36 pm by Hannah Kris
Mikhaila Fogel shared a special edition episode of The Lawfare Podcast in which Benjamin Wittes hosted Scott R. [read post]
6 Jan 2020, 3:55 pm by Mikhaila Fogel
Anderson, Bobby Chesney, Jack Goldsmith, Ashley Deeks and Samuel Moyn join Benjamin Wittes to discuss the domestic and international law surrounding the strike, how the administration might legally justify it, what the president might do next and how Congress might respond. [read post]
4 Jan 2020, 9:02 am by Hadley Baker
Scott Anderson evaluated the situation, specifically focusing on the legality of President Trump’s actions—and Jack Goldsmith examined how lax the legal constraints have become on the president's use of force. [read post]