A discussion with former Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines

Preventing retaliatory threats at home

Trump and Hegseth will leave the uniformed military damaged by illegality, and Congress will be complicit

A massive defeat for the president and an extraordinary affirmation of the Supreme Court's power.

The injunction in the Kelly case, a grand jury rebuff, and a debate over anti-weaponization reforms.

The judiciary, including the Supreme Court, is standing up to the president

The Georgia voting records search warrant and Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS

A short clause, a troubled history

What a Difference a Half Century Makes

The law and politics of weaponizing DOJ against Powell

Executive branch precedents can be garnered to support the action—which does not, of course, mean that it is lawful.

The relevance and limits of the Article II doctrine in domestic military deployments after Trump v. Illinois

The relevance and limits of the Article II doctrine in domestic military deployments after Trump v. Illinois

The administration loses but still has options for domestic military deployment

There is lots of law between Donald Trump and the acquisition of Greenland

Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder

Three ways to understand the Trump administration

How the Office of Legal Counsel Helps the White House in its Summary Killings

Blanche, Bondi, Halligan, Martin—and a White House in charge

This executive branch precedent will have long and bad legs.

Assessing the president's authority, Congress's role, and the underlying politics

The scope of judicial review of the president’s domestic deployment decisions, and the federal courts’ larger predicament

A missed opportunity and next steps

A longer-than-usual chat in which we disagree, a bit, on the law and politics

The legal authorities and possible trajectory of the deployment

The president hasn’t invoked the Insurrection Act. He’s instead relying on a theory of inherent constitutional power that is far more limited.

Trump’s open profiteering is not only about self-enrichment.

The president’s attacks on the Federalist Society and his nomination of Emil Bove

The tariffs may be awful but two federal courts did not persuasively show that they are unlawful.

Unpacking the emergency order in Trump v. Wilcox

False Claims Act

Solicitor General Sauer concedes judicial supremacy, and other highlights from the oral argument

He had to for his argument against universal injunctions to work

What's behind the administration's habeas comments? And what will the courts think?

On the aims of disruption through provocation

It's astonishing, but does anyone care?

Join Aaron David Miller as he engages the Carnegie Endowment’s Tino Cuéllar and Harvard’s Learned Hand Professor of Law Jack Goldsmith to shed light on President Trump's growing reach over the judiciary and its implications for America’s changing place in the world on the next Carnegie Connects.

We break down Jack's op-ed in the New York Times.

Blocked

A paid full- or part-time executive editor position starting this spring/summer

What does this mean for the negotiations?

Facilitate

Summer and fall interns

Is it starting to hurt?

His incompatible duties to the president and the Supreme Court are coming to a head.

Cling