Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
Trump Administration / Series: What Just Happened
- What Just Happened: The “Invasion” Executive Order and Its Dangerous Implications
by Ilya Somin - What Just Happened: The Framing of a Migration “Invasion” and the Use of Military Authorities
by William Banks - What Just Happened: Trump’s Termination of West Bank Settler Sanctions
by Brad Brooks-Rubin
Trump Administration / Perspectives
- Trump’s Dictatorial Theory of Presidential Power – What the Executive Orders, in the Aggregate, Tell Us
by Adam Cox and Trevor Morrison - Stop-Work Order on US Foreign Aid Puts China First and America Last
by Michael Schiffer - ‘Elections Have Consequences’: Trump and Rubio’s Foreign Aid Halt Will Hit the World’s Most Vulnerable
by Ambassador Donald Steinberg - Stopped Security Assistance: From Counter-Narcotics to Combating Human Trafficking Programs
by Dafna H. Rand - Why Has the Trump Justice Department Not Moved to Dismiss the Case Against Trump’s Co-Defendants in the FLA Classified Documents Case?
by Andrew Weissmann - Understanding Trump’s Choice for FBI Leadership in Light of the“Weaponization of the Federal Government” Executive Order
by Stuart M. Gerson - Beware the “Deferred Resignation” Offer: A Legally Dubious Proposal for Federal Employees
by Suzanne Summerlin - The Real Reason Trump’s Purge of Career DOJ Officials Should Alarm You
by Sara Zdeb - Trump’s Executive Order on Foreign Terrorists: Implications for the Rights of Non-Citizens
by Faiza Patel - Federal Employee Rights: What Probationary Employees Need to Know
by Suzanne Summerlin
Trump Administration / Confirmation Hearings
- Questions for Senators (and Journalists) to ask Director of National Intelligence Nominee Tulsi Gabbard
by Just Security - No Claim to Fame: Kash Patel and False or Misleading Statements About the 2016 Russia Investigation
by Ryan Goodman
United States / Surveillance
- Court Says Warrant Needed for U.S. Person Queries of FISA Section 702 Data
by David Aaron, Noah Chauvin and Courtney Otto - Expand, Don’t Dismantle, America’s Privacy Watchdog
by Daniel J. Rosenthal
Israel-Hamas War
International Criminal Court
- We Need the International Legal Order: A Call to Protect the International Criminal Court
by The Current and Former Presidents of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court - Italy, Libya, and the Failure of State Cooperation with the International Criminal Court in the Elmasry Arrest Case
by Chantal Meloni
Syria
- Syria Needs the International Criminal Court
by Kenneth Roth - Syria’s Uncertain Path: Challenges of Return, Stability and Trust
by Osman Bahadir Dinçer and Zeynep Sahin-Mencutek
Artificial Intelligence
Military Justice
- Some Reforms to Consider as the Uniform Code of Military Justice Turns 75 This Spring
by Eugene R. Fidell
Colombia / Police Violence
- The Colombian Model of Success: Civil Society and Excess Force by Anti-Riot Squads and Police Units
by Binaifer Nowrojee
Enforced Disappearance
- Confronting Challenges to the Prosecution of Enforced Disappearances Before Domestic Courts
by Ana Srovin Coralli
Atrocity Prevention
- For Atrocity Crimes Prevention, Better UN Strategic Leadership is Crucial
by Youk Chhang - Surge of Hate Speech in the Sahel, Including on WhatsApp, Signals Atrocity Risk
by Laura Sanders, Katharine Dow and Victoria Scott