“Shortbursts” is a Lawfire® feature you will see occasionally, and it aims to give you a quick volley of info on a number of items. Filling the Supreme Court vacancy: The press is alive...
As Lawfire readers know, one of the purposes of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) is to develop the next generation of national security leaders. To that end, at the LENS Conference this year...
Late last year CNN reported that opioid-involved deaths (42,249) now exceed the number of deaths from breast cancer (41,000). Both statistics are grim ones, but the losses to opioids are especially frustrating because they...
As a veteran, I’ve always found Colin Kaepernick’s disrespect of the flag at NFL games to be insulting to all Americans, and especially to those who’ve served in uniform in the military (and in...
Today the President declared that a “major disaster” exists in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria. He had previously announced (Sept 5th) an “emergency” in Florida. Is there a difference? Actually, yes....
In a recent episode of the excellent National Security Law podcast, University of Texas law professors Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney ruminated about the D.C. Circuit’s August 9th decision requiring the recusal of Judge Scott Silliman of...
At one time reading Aryeh Neier’s 1979 seminal work of legal ethics, Defending My Enemy: American Nazis, the Skokie Case, and the Risks of Freedom, was de rigueur for young lawyers. Given recent events...
Does everyone have a constitutional right to be in the military? Are the legal issues associated with gays and lesbians serving openly in the military exactly the same as those concerning inducting transgender people? ...
If you believe headline writers for Slate, the obstruction of justice case against Donald Trump is “Open and Shut” and is “already a slam dunk.” However, the author of the essay behind those headlines...
As early as this morning, the Supreme Court may issue orders in the travel ban litigation. I believe Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ought to recuse herself from these cases, but supporters of the ban...
Charles J. Dunlap Jr., the former deputy judge advocate general of the United States Air Force, joined the Duke Law faculty in July 2010 where he is a professor of the practice of law and Executive Director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security.
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