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1 week ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Anna Bower |Quinta Jurecic |Roger Parloff
In a live conversation on June 13, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce and Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff to discuss the legality of President Trump federalizing the California National Guard to send them to L.A., the pretrial detention hearing of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, updates in Alien Enemies Act litigation, the indictment of Representative LaMonica McIver, and more.
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2 weeks ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Scott Anderson |Molly Reynolds |Quinta Jurecic |Chris Mirasola
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With This week, Scott sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Reynolds and Quinta Jurecic, and Contributing Editor Chris Mirasola, to focus on the week’s big domestic news, including: “Drama Majors, Meet Major Drama.” In the glittering city of Los Angeles, the Trump administration has taken the dramatic step of calling up the California National Guard and deploying them alongside active duty Marines to secure federal personnel and...
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3 weeks ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Quinta Jurecic |Joseph Cox |Orly Lobel |Aziz Huq
Political scientists who study democratic backsliding—the slow erosion of a country’s institutions—have raised alarms about the state of democracy in the United States under the second Trump administration. At the same time, the administration has embraced technology—particularly AI—as a tool for implementing many of its policies, from immigration enforcement to slashing government functions and staffing.
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1 month ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Jen Patja |Alan Rozenshtein |Quinta Jurecic |Scott Anderson
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This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott reunited on our new recording day to talk through the week’s big national security news, including:“Blocked and Muted.” Earlier this week, the Washington Post published a draft report by the Jan.
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1 month ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Quinta Jurecic |Roger Parloff |James Pearce
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On May 28 at 2 pm ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce and Lawfare Senior Editors Quinta Jurecic and Roger Parloff to discuss updates in D.V.D. v. Department of Homeland Security, the case over the removal of immgirants to South Sudan, a ruling in Jenner & Block v. U.S. Department of Justice, and more. Find Lawfare’s litigation tracker here.
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1 month ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Quinta Jurecic
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The Court of Military Commissions Review (CMCR) has issued two new orders in recent days in the cases of Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi and the five accused 9/11 conspirators. In the latter case, the Miami Herald reports that the CMCR overruled the trial judge, military judge Army Col. James Pohl, to reinstate charges of attacking civilian objects and destruction of property against the five defendants.
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1 month ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Quinta Jurecic |Roger Parloff |James Pearce
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With In a live conversation on May 22, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Quinta Jurecic and Roger Parloff and Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce to discuss legal challenges against President Trump’s executive actions, including the a court hearing over the attempted deportation of immigrants to South Sudan, the arrest of Democratic Representative LaMonica McIver, the Supreme Court opinion allowing...
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1 month ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Anna Bower |Quinta Jurecic |Roger Parloff
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With In a live conversation on May 16, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff and Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce to discuss legal challenges against President Trump’s executive actions, including the Friday hearing in the Abrego Garcia litigation, the Supreme Court’s ruling in an Alien Enemies Act case, oral arguments at the Supreme Court over President...
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1 month ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Jen Patja |Alan Rozenshtein |Quinta Jurecic |Scott Anderson
This week, Alan, Quinta and Scott were joined by Jeffrey Kosseff, cybersecurity law professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, to hash through some of the week's big national security news, including: “One Letter Off KGB, Two Letters Away from DGAF.” The Department of Homeland Security has taken heat this week for creating an internal Disinformation Governance Board, which partisan critics have railed against as a federal “Ministry of Truth” responsible for policing speech.
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1 month ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Quinta Jurecic |Laura Gamboa |Jen Patja
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In recent years, political scientists have given a great deal of attention to “democratic backsliding”—the slow erosion of democracy by aspiring authoritarians. The events of the last several months in the United States—with attacks from the Trump administration on the press, higher education, and any center of power outside the White House—make this research all the more relevant.
