The Supreme Court has blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a vaccine and testing mandate for large employers, reports the New York Times. The mandate would have
required employees either to be vaccinated against the coronavirus or participate in routine testing. [...]
On Jan. 8, a grand jury indicted Stewart Rhodes, founder and leader of the far-right group Oath Keepers, in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Charges against
him and 10 other alleged Oath Keeper members include seditious conspiracy for organizing the plot to attack the Capitol. [...]
This week, Shane Harris and David Priess team up to talk with John Sipher, a former senior intelligence officer who has gone Hollywood. With his partners at Spycraft Entertainment,
John is bringing compelling and, yes, accurate stories about espionage to the screen. [...]
Today on Lawfare No Bull: On Tuesday, Jan. 11, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the threat of domestic terrorism facing our nation, one year after the attack
on the U.S. Capitol. The hearing included testimonies from Matthew Olsen, Assistant Attorney General in the National Security Division of the Department of Justice [...]
The prospect of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan echoes some of the most disastrous 20th century instances of great power expansion—reminiscent, perhaps, of Nazi Germany’s
Anschluss or even its subsequent invasion of Poland. Given that the latter ignited World War II, America’s strategic community has been rightly fixated on the vast [...]
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) other foot, I argue, is lodged firmly in its mouth. Tatyana Bolton defends the agency, which released what can only be described as
a regulatory blog post in response to the log4j vulnerability, invoking the $700 million in fines imposed on Equifax to threatening “to use its full legal authority [...]
A review of Matt Carlson, Seth C. Lewis, and Sue Robinson, “News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture” (Oxford University Press, 2021).
A review of Matt Carlson, Seth C. Lewis, and Sue Robinson, “News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture” (Oxford University [...]
Jamal Greene, co-chair of the Facebook Oversight Board, an independent governing body reviewing Facebook’s content moderation decisions and issuing binding rulings, explains
the inner workings of the Board. Greene is the Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he focuses on constitutional law and American federal courts. [...]
The Justice Department is creating a new domestic terrorism unit to tackle what officials say is a growing threat, reports the Washington Post. Matthew Olsen, head of the National
Security Division at the Justice Department, announced the unit in the opening remarks of his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying that the number [...]
If there’s a child in your life, you’ll want to hear today’s show. It’s about custody and visitation during divorce. If you want to know what the law is, just ask our
guest law Professor Deborah Bell. You can send us an email to our address legalterms@mpbonline.org [...]
