Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Feb. 2-7, 2025)

Just Security Editorial Board

• Welcoming Kathleen Claussen, Tom Dannenbaum, and Eliav Lieblich
  by Tess Bridgeman, Megan Corrarino and Ryan Goodman

Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions (Updated)

• Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
  by Just Security

Trump Executive Actions / Series: What Just Happened

• Can the President Dissolve USAID by Executive Order?
  by Tess Bridgeman
• What Just Happened: New Tariffs on Products from Mexico, Canada, and China
  by Kathleen Claussen
• What Just Happened: At Guantanamo’s Migrant Operation Center
  by Jonathan Hafetz and Rebecca Ingber
• What Just Happened: Security Implications of Trump’s Efforts to Trim the CIA Workforce
  by Alex Finley

Trump Executive Actions / Perspectives

• The Dangerous Sweep of Trump’s Plan to Designate Cartels as Terrorist Organizations
  by Rachel Levinson-Waldman
• The Most Indefensible Aspects of DOJ’s Briefs in the Birthright Citizenship Cases
  by Marty Lederman

Trump Administration / Confirmation Hearings

• From Pardons to Purges: Pressing Questions that Bondi and Patel Must Answer Now
  by Mary B. McCord
• The Senate’s Dilemma: Kash Patel and the Purging of the FBI
  by Ryan Goodman

January 6 Pardons

• Nine Experts on the Impact of President Trump’s Pardons and Commutations for January 6 Offenders
  by Dean Jackson and Justin Hendrix

United States / Japan

• For Trump’s China Agenda the Best Deal is to Reverse Biden and let Nippon Buy U.S. Steel
  by Michael Schiffer

Media Institutions / Constitutional Freedoms

• What Happens After the Most Powerful Media Institutions Keep Surrendering to Trump
  by Jameel Jaffer
• Connecting the Dots: Trump’s Tightening Grip on Press Freedom
  by Rebecca Hamilton

Q&A: Technology / Democracy

• Q&A with Marietje Schaake on the Tech Coup and Trump
  by Marietje Schaake

Artificial Intelligence

• What DeepSeek Really Changes About AI Competition
  by Konstantin F. Pilz and Lennart Heim

Intelligence Community / Reform

• A Step in the Right Direction for Prepublication Review
  by Jack Goldsmith and Oona A. Hathaway

Belarus / Human Rights

• Solidarity Needed Amid Stranglehold on Belarusian Lawyers
  by Nils Muiznieks, Meg Satterthwaite and Aloysia Sonnet

Podcast

• The Just Security Podcast: Diving Deeper into DeepSeek
  Brianna Rosen interview with Lennart Heim, Keegan McBride, and Lauren Wagner
• The Just Security Podcast: ‘The National Security Constitution in the 21st Century’ Book Talk
  Tess Bridgeman and Paras Shah interview with Harold Hongju Koh
• The Just Security Podcast: Repression of Lawyers in Belarus and Around the World
  Paras Shah interview with Nils Muiznieks, Maksim Polovinko, Meg Satterthwaite