Norm Eisen on the Emoluments Clause
Donald Trump's election as president brought a surge of interest in the previously obscure Emoluments Clause, which prohibits any “Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States...
11 Feb 201738min
Goldsmith v. Lederman on Yates
On Monday, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates ordered the Justice Department not to defend President Trump's executive order banning refugees and immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries, only...
1 Feb 201738min
About That Border Wall
President Trump kicked off the first foreign policy crisis of his new administration by signing an executive order mandating the construction of the much-promised border wall with Mexico, resulting in...
28 Jan 201737min
What the Privacy Debate Gets Wrong
On January 13th, Benjamin Wittes and Emma Kohse released a new paper challenging the assumption that "privacy is an eroding value," worn away by the incessant collection of online data about consumer ...
20 Jan 20171h 15min
Jameel Jaffer on "The Drone Memos"
Jameel Jaffer, author of The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing, Secrecy, and the Law, joins Jack Goldsmith at the Hoover Book Soiree. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast....
14 Jan 201750min
Susan Hennessey and Matt Tait Go on a Political Witch Hunt
In an interview with The New York Times before his intelligence briefing on Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. election on Friday, President-elect Donald Trump called the intelligence community...
6 Jan 201746min
Deterring Russian Cyber Intrusions
Whatever the President-elect might say on the matter, the question of Russian interference in the presidential election is not going away: calls continue in the Senate for an investigation into the Kr...
23 Dec 201646min
Intelligence Under a Trump Administration
The annual Cato Surveillance Conference kicked off this week with a panel on "Intelligence Under a Trump Administration," featuring former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matthew Olse...
16 Dec 20161h 4min
