Lawfare Archive: El Salvador’s President Cracks Down on Gangs—and Democracy
From May 9, 2023: Since March 2022, El Salvador has been under a state of exception as its President Nayib Bukele seeks to crack down on the country’s powerful gangs. Bukele, who once described himsel...
21 Jun 20251h 5min
Lawfare Daily: Trump’s Rescissions Request, Impoundments, and the Litigation Over Foreign Assistance
For today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Molly Reynolds sat down for a conversation about the ...
20 Jun 202559min
Lawfare Archive: Jack Goldsmith and Bob Bauer on Reforming the Insurrection Act
From April 12, 2024: The Insurrection Act is a provision that allows the president to deploy the U.S. military for domestic law enforcement. It’s been invoked dozens of times by presidents to respond ...
19 Jun 202557min
Rational Security: The "Middle East War to End Middle East Wars" Edition
This week, Scott sat down with Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Foreign Policy Editors Daniel Byman and Dana Stuster to talk through the week’s big news in Israel and Iran, including:“The Nuc...
18 Jun 20251h 14min
Lawfare Daily: The Israel/Iran Conflict: What Do We Know So Far?
On today's episode, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett discussed the ongoing hostilities between Israel and Iran with Suzanne Maloney, Director of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Inst...
18 Jun 20251h 1min
Lawfare Daily: Evaluating January 6 Prosecutions with Greg Rosen
Greg Rosen, now an attorney at Rogers Joseph O’Donnell, spoke with James Pearce, Lawfare Legal Fellow, about his time prosecuting federal crimes in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colum...
17 Jun 202555min
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 13
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 d...
16 Jun 20251h 36min
Lawfare Archive: The Court at War
From December 26, 2023: The Supreme Court during World War II issued some of the most notorious opinions in its history, including the Japanese exclusion case, Korematsu v. United States, and the Nazi...
15 Jun 20251h 3min
