Today’s Headlines and Commentary
The Justice Department on Monday night released part of an internal document from 2019 that was used to defend the decision not to charge former President Donald Trump with obstruction of justice, writes the Washington Post. The primary document at issue is a memo from March 2019 penned by two senior Justice Department officials arguing that evidence from the Mueller investigation did not reach the level of a prosecutable case. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued an opinion earlier this month in which she said that she had reviewed the memo and that it demonstrated that former Attorney General William Barr deceitfully cited the document as showing that Trump had acted lawfully.
The Lawfare Podcast: Chesney and Herr on the Biden Executive Order
President Biden has issued an executive order on cybersecurity. Bobby Chesney, one of the founders of
Lawfare and a professor at the University of Texas Law School, and Trey Herr of the Atlantic Council, analyzed the significant document in depth for
Lawfare, and they joined Benjamin Wittes on
Lawfare Live to discuss the order and take questions from a live audience. They talked about what the executive order covers, what it doesn t cover, what it can be expected to do beyond the realm of government contracting, why it left out all matters related to ransomware and what the president needs Congress s help to do.
December 27, 2017 Well, 2017 is almost done. No doubt there are a few more kicks-in-the-pants on the way before it s all said and done, but hey, we can at least offer you one final episode of this podcast! So, you ve got that going for you, which is nice… Four topics today: ACLU v. Mattis: Judge Chutkan has ruled. It s brief, it sÃÂ .
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