@charliesavage.bsky.social
The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.
U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance
The details could raise questions about who was responsible for a follow-up strike on Sept. 2 — the commander who ordered it or the defense secretary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Hegseth Ordered a Lethal Attack but Not the Killing of Survivors, Officials Say
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/u...
I definitely don't like everything Elon Musk has done to Twitter/X, and especially think algorithmic suppression of posts with links in them is a mistake. But this new thing of disclosing what country accounts are apparently based in is interesting.
24.11.2025 23:55 — 👍 97 🔁 13 💬 11 📌 1yeah i added something about that complication. not obvious how to square these two things. Clearly something for the lawyers to fight over if it comes to that. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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Trump y compañía dicen que Maduro lidera un ‘cártel’. Esto es lo que significa
Los venezolanos acuñaron un término para referirse a los generales corrompidos por el dinero del narcotráfico: “Cártel de los Soles”. Estados Unidos se lo tomó literalmente.
www.nytimes.com/es/2025/11/1...
Trump Team Calls Maduro a ‘Cartel’ Boss. That Word Doesn’t Mean What You Think.
Venezuelans coined a figure of speech for the phenomenon of generals corrupted by drug money: “Cartel de los Soles.” Then the US started talking about it as a literal organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Good piece by @rachelmorris.bsky.social about the liberal faculty lounge chin-stroking origins of what became a politically potent nativist argument about the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship. (Aside: I am sorry to hear that Peter Schuck, whose torts class I took 23 years ago, is ailing.)
15.11.2025 23:00 — 👍 42 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
Accounts of a secret Justice Department memo offer a window into how administration lawyers approved the president’s desired course of action.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Separate DOJ filing arguing against bill of particulars says it has told Comey enough about what he's being charged over. Notably re the vague accusation of perjury re authorizing someone at FBI to leak, it only discusses Clinton email inquiry, not Russia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
13.11.2025 21:14 — 👍 23 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
DOJ filing shows prosecution considers Comey telling Graham he didn't remember getting a memo w/ the 'Clinton plan' thing to be part of the case. Grand jury no-billed the attempted perjury charge but they think it's still evidence for obstruction charge. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
13.11.2025 21:12 — 👍 58 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 0
Walter Isaacson and I discussed Dick Cheney's presidential power legacy and how he paved the way for Donald Trump despite being adversaries. This aired tonight on PBS's Amanpour & Co. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuH6...
13.11.2025 00:36 — 👍 38 🔁 13 💬 5 📌 0
How Cheney’s Presidential Power Push Paved the Way for Trump to Go Further
Donald J. Trump and Dick Cheney became adversaries, but the former vice president set the stage for Mr. Trump’s bid to expand his executive authority.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
My first book, Takeover, was about Dick Cheney's quest to expand presidential power (or "restore" it, as he saw it, to the level it had reached when Nixon was president, before Watergate). First two chapters, including Cheney's rise, free here: charliesavage.com/books/takeov...
04.11.2025 13:39 — 👍 58 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 1
War Powers Law Does Not Apply to Trump’s Boat Strikes, Administration Says
The stance deepened the idea that a Vietnam-era law, which says congressionally unauthorized deployments into “hostilities” must end after 60 days, does not apply to airstrike campaigns.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
Why Trump’s Boat Killings Would Be Hard to Prosecute
Even if critics who call President Trump’s boat attacks “murder” are right as a matter of law, it would not be easy to get the matter into a court.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
Thank you. How does the article suggest otherwise?
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After Law Firm Deals With Trump, D.C. Bar Warns of Ethical Jeopardy
The bar group’s ethics committee says firms that make a deal with the government may need to get waivers from clients with opposing interests.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
U.S. Military Kills Six People in Latest Boat Strike in the Caribbean
The Trump administration has acknowledged 10 strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats from South America, which have killed 43 people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Trump administration's two-step hack of the system by which executive branch lawyers are supposed to help keep the presidency within the rule of law.
24.10.2025 12:25 — 👍 145 🔁 71 💬 21 📌 11
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The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
U.S. Strikes Boat in Pacific, Expanding Operation Against Drug Running Suspects
It was the eighth known strike, and the first outside of the Caribbean, in the Trump administration’s campaign against what it says are boats carrying drugs bound for the United States.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
U.S. Attacks More Boats as Tensions With Venezuela Rise: What’s Happened So Far
The Trump administration is ratcheting up pressure on the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, while striking vessels that it says are trafficking drugs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Ecuador Rejects Prosecution of Survivor of U.S. Strike on Vessel
The country has freed the man, one of two survivors of a U.S. military strike on a submersible vessel last week, defying President Trump’s claim that he would be held and prosecuted.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
U.S. Detains 2 Survivors of Latest Military Strike in Caribbean
The capture of prisoners presents a major new set of legal and policy problems for the Trump administration in its escalating campaign.
w/ Eric Schmitt, h/t @reuters.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
How the Bolton Indictment Compares to Trump’s Classified Documents Case
Some charges against the onetime national security adviser resemble the dropped case against President Trump, but there are also differences.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
The Mortgage Fraud Case Against Letitia James, Explained
An indictment brought by a novice prosecutor and Trump loyalists against one of the president’s foes centers on a 2020 house purchase.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
10 year statute of limitations for these two charges www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
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Trump Baselessly Claims He ‘Took the Freedom of Speech Away’ From Flag Burners
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
