Quinta Jurecic

Senior Editor at Lawfare

senior editor @lawfare, fellow @BrookingsInst, contributing writer @TheAtlantic & @washingtonpost's Book World. views my own, RTs = @infinite_scream.

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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, April 18

3 days ago | lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Anna Bower |Quinta Jurecic |Roger Parloff

On April 18 at 4 pm ET, 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 the status of the civil litigation against President Trump’s executive actions, including Judge Boasberg's finding of probable cause for contempt in the Alien Enemies Act case.
What Recourse Does the Supreme Court Actually Have?

1 week ago | theatlantic.com | Quinta Jurecic

Since early February, when Vice President J. D. Vance posted on X that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” the United States has been inching nearer and nearer to the moment when the White House directly defies an order of the court. So far, that moment doesn’t appear to have arrived—in part because the Trump administration can’t quite commit to its own authoritarian posturing.
Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, April 18

1 week ago | lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Anna Bower |Roger Parloff |Quinta Jurecic

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With On April 18 at 4 pm ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff and Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce to discuss the status of the civil litigation against President Trump’s executive actions, including Judge Boasberg's finding of probable cause for contempt in the Alien Enemies Act case. Find Lawfare’s litigation tracker here.
Lawfare Daily: Trials of the Trump Administration, April 11

1 week ago | lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Anna Bower |Quinta Jurecic |Roger Parloff

In a live conversation on April 11, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff, Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce, and Lawfare Contributing Editor Bob Bauer to discuss the status of the civil litigation against President Trump’s executive actions, including the April 11 hearing on the removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Supreme Court’s decisions in Abrego Garcia’s case and the Alien Enemies Act case, the...
Mixed Signals on Alleged Alien Enemies

2 weeks ago | lawfaremedia.org | Quinta Jurecic |Natalie Orpett |Benjamin Wittes

The Supreme Court’s decision Monday in Trump v. J.G.G. has sent a strange set of mixed messages to the Trump administration concerning its invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to ship hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to a prison in El Salvador.
The Supreme Court Doesn’t Need Facts

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Quinta Jurecic

The justices exhibit a disturbing willingness to ignore the human costs of Trump’s actions, preferring instead to remain within the more comfortable zone of high-minded legal theory. Over the course of one afternoon and evening last month, the Department of Homeland Security loaded three planes with migrants, most of them Venezuelan men whom the Trump administration had determined, on the basis of little to no evidence, to be members of the gang Tren de Aragua.
The Supreme Court Doesn’t Need Facts

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Quinta Jurecic

7 hours agoThe president signed an executive order late Tuesday that aims to “stop the enforcement” of a broad swath of state climate regulations. President Donald Trump is throwing the weight of the Justice Department against the last bastion of U.S. climate action: states and cities. In a sweeping executive …
Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, April 11

2 weeks ago | lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Anna Bower |Quinta Jurecic |Roger Parloff

On April 11 at 4 pm ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff, Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce, and Lawfare contributor Bob Bauer to discuss the status of the civil litigation against President Trump’s executive actions, including the Supreme Court’s rulings in the Alien Enemies Act case and in the firing of probationary employees case. Find Lawfare’s litigation tracker here.
Trump’s Attacks on Justice Department Independence, Then and Now

4 weeks ago | lawfaremedia.org | Quinta Jurecic

Ernest Hemingway famously described the process of bankruptcy as occurring “gradually, and then suddenly.” The same could be said of Donald Trump’s assault on the integrity of the Justice Department. During Trump’s first term, the president chipped away at the independence of federal law enforcement bit by bit over the course of four years.
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 21

1 month ago | lawfaremedia.org | Anna Bower |Quinta Jurecic |Roger Parloff |Benjamin Wittes

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With In a recording of a live conversation on March 21, Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare senior editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff to discuss the status of the civil litigation against President Donald Trump’s executive actions, including DOGE’s incursions on the U.S. Institute of Peace, the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, and the firing of probationary employees.