On June 22, the Department of Defense (DOD) issued an interim policy regulation for providing ex gratia payments to civilians harmed as a result of U.S. military operations.
It provides procedural guidance to U.S. military commanders for issuing payments under an authority created by Section 1213 of last year’s National Defense Authorization [...]
The summer of 2017 was an extended nightmare for the Badrans. Over the course of several weeks, 39 members of Rasha Badran’s family, most of them women and children, were
killed in four separate U.S.-led coalition air strikes, as they moved from place to place inside Raqqa, Syria, desperately trying to avoid the rapidly shifting frontlines [...]
(Editor’s Note: In case you missed it, for more on the U.N.’s Virtual Counter-Terrorism Week, Yasmine Ahmed discusses the failure to involve civil society, and Eric Rosand
and Alistair Millar explore the outsized role of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.) [...]
(Editor’s Note: This is the latest in Just Security’s weekly series keeping readers up to date on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security,
human rights, and the rule of law.) [...]
Yesterday’s Supreme Court rulings holding that the president is not immune from subpoenas issued by Congress and local law enforcement were a relief to many. But even as
the Court yesterday reaffirmed that the president is not above the law, we should not lose sight of another major decision from just last week suggesting a possible [...]
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The story of rule of law in the age of Trump is that it has pushed back on the president, although never as completely or as rapidly as it should. We have another important
example of that in Thursday’s 7-2 decisions in Trump v. Vance and in Trump v. [...]
Editor’s Note: This piece is part of Just Security’s Assessing Emergency Powers During #COVID-19 series, which aims to highlight legal and civil society voices from across
the globe, assessing the specific legal consequences of declared and de facto emergencies. [...]
Civil society organizations are sorely disappointed with this week’s United Nations “Virtual Counter-Terrorism Week.” Less than a month ago, on June 11, more than 400
civil society organizations from across multiple regions participated in the first-ever civil society-led “High-Level Virtual Convening on UN Counter-Terrorism [...]
Roger Stone — who was part of the Trump campaign’s effort to collude with the Russian government and then helped to cover it up — is set to report to prison on July 14.
Stone was convicted of lying to Congress during its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election; as the judge noted in his case, Stone “was prosecuted [...]
