At 1:30pm the DC Circuit will hear arguments on whether to stay Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining order, which is preventing summary removals of alleged Tren de Aragua members under the Alien Enemies Act. Curtain-raiser:
1/20
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Good morning from 100 Centre Street in Manhattan, where the President-elect is set to be criminally sentenced on 34 felony convictions for falsification of business records.
I’m here with @tylermcbrien.bsky.social and @katherinepomps.bsky.social for @lawfare.bsky.social.
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T-15 minutes to oral argument! I'll be covering it in this thread. And @lawfare.bsky.social will be doing a post-argument live event at 3 PM ET. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...
Personal: I’ve left the NPR mothership after an incredible year on the campaign trail to cover state politics for WXXI / NY Public News Network out of Albany. I’m still in the NPR family, and it’ll be exciting to cover NY as a Syracuse native.
My first day is Dec. 30! Say hi - DMs/in Albany!
Matt Gluck and @hyemin.bsky.social explain the ongoing litigation over the ability to admit statements allegedly obtained through torture in the Guantanamo Bay military commissions in the prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
Why isn’t CyberTipline, the reporting mechanism for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the U.S., working as well as it should?
@shelbygrossman.bsky.social, Riana Pfefferkorn, and @sarashah19.bsky.social explain and make recommendations for potential solutions.
Before oral argument in Trump v. Anderson next week, @hyemin.bsky.social asked @samuelmoyn.bsky.social & Ilya Somin to discuss the political arguments for and against disqualifying Trump under Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment and how the Court should rule on today’s Lawfare Podcast.
@benjaminwittes.bsky.social and @qjurecic.bsky.social explain the two court rulings from Friday on whether presidential immunity applies to Trump's actions leading up to, and on, Jan. 6, 2021—and why one may be a bigger deal than the other.
On today's Lawfare Podcast, @hyemin.bsky.social talked to Mark Lattimer about his recent Lawfare article arguing that Israel’s tolerance for civilian deaths seems to surpass that of the U.S. and U.K.’s in the war against ISIS, the case study used to make this point, and more.
March 10, 1975: Secretary of State Henry Kissinger quips to Turkey’s foreign minister in Ankara, “Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings, ‘The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.’ But since the [FOIA], I’m afraid to say things like that.”
this was a tough article to write, as articles about this kind of abuse often are. I came into this appalled by the allegations against Omegle but leery of FOSTA, the Section 230 carveout that the plaintiffs used to successfully get the suit past the motion-to-dismiss stage. but...
Three college students of Palestinian descent were shot by a white man near the University of Vermont on Saturday, the police said. The authorities in Burlington are investigating the shooting as a possible hate crime, the city’s mayor said.
"Judge Pillard returns to witnesses: Can’t there be a prophylactic order aimed at preventing threats to them?"
"'What is described as a threat here is core political speech,' Sauer responds."
@hyemin.bsky.social's dispatch on the Trump gag order appellate args:
An IHL proportionality test of Israel's Oct. 31 airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp suggests that Israel’s civilian casualties tolerance is “completely out of step” with U.S. and U.K. tolerance in ops in the war against ISIS, argues Mark Lattimer.
Today, Lawfare is launching the Trump Disqualification Tracker—a page created by @hyemin.bsky.social and Caleb Benjamin to track challenges in the states to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot under Sec. 3 of the 14th amendment
@hyemin.bsky.social provides a dispatch in absentia of Walt Nauta’s potential potential conflicts hearing on Oct. 20 that had been re-scheduled after the Oct. 12 hearing imploded:
@tylermcbrien.bsky.social flamed me the other day for wearing a parka (he’s right)
The advocacy group that brought the original affirmative action case is challenging the Supreme Court’s military academies carveout. @hyemin.bsky.social summarizes the legal challenges raised in their suit against the nation’s oldest military academy, West Point.
and here I thought titling the pod “A Weaponized World Economy” was pushing it
Today’s Lawfare Podcast is about modern economic empire. @hyemin.bsky.social talked to @himself.bsky.social and Abe Newman about how the U.S. accidentally weaponized the global economy & the interaction between national security objectives and economic statecraft.
Fear not removal, with Anna Bower and Alan Rozenshstein:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/in-f...
In 2022, the U.S. government said it wouldn’t use torture evidence in Guantanamo Bay litigation. So how is it still being relied on in certain cases?
On today's Lawfare Podcast, @hyemin.bsky.social spoke to Scott Roehm about recent torture evidence developments at GMTO:
The Jan. 6 grand jury handed up an indictment of former President Donald Trump earlier today.
Here’s the story of Trump and his co-conspirators’ efforts to overturn the election, as told by the special counsel.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trump-jan.-6-indictment-the-facts
Today, the D.C. Circuit denied Guantanamo Bay detainee Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul's life sentence appeal and agreed with the government’s arguments regarding the use of torture-obtained evidence in the case. Read the opinion, from @hyemin.bsky.social:
if Trump is indicted on Barbie Day I swear to god
The top story on NYT right now is about @benjaminwittes.bsky.social ‘s protest pranks on the Russian embassy, perfectly punctuated by the fact that he was banned from Twitter for impersonating the Russian Embassy
every day Snapchat memories reminds me i was funnier in college
