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Quinta Jurecic
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Dominion v. Fox is Just the Beginning
“Money is accountability,” announced Stephen Shackleford, a lawyer for the voting machine company Dominion, moments after a Delaware superior court judge announced that the company...
How Jan. 6 Committee Staffers Have Filled in the Blanks
According to Tucker Carlson, the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was not an attempted putsch but instead “mostly peaceful chaos”: The...
John Eastman and the Limits of Bar Discipline
The memos prepared by John Eastman constitute some of the most shocking documentation of the plot to overturn the 2020 election in favor of Donald...
The Dangerous Omission in the Jan. 6 Committee's Report Summary
The Jan. 6 committee’s work investigating the Capitol insurrection has been incredibly impressive. Investigators have uncovered new and damning information about Donald Trump’s culpability in...
Democracy After the Midterms
On Nov. 15, Donald Trump announced his third campaign for president of the United States. Over the course of a listless, rambling speech, he lied...
Taking the Pelosi Attack Seriously
Of all the recordings of the violence on Jan. 6, some of the most disturbing video documents insurrectionists searching for Speaker of the House Nancy...
Trump’s Obstruction of Justice, From Mueller to Now
As Donald Trump battles in court to stall the process of the Justice Department’s Mar-a-Lago investigation, the press has continued to uncover damaging new information...
Why the Jan. 6 Committee Is Talking About Justice Department Independence
Again and again in recent years, current and former Justice Department officials—along with academics, journalists, and other commentators—have struggled to explain to the public the...
What Happened the Last Time Congress Amended § 230
Editor’s note: This piece is a modified excerpt from the author’s Brookings Institution paper, “The Politics of Section 230 Reform: Learning From FOSTA’s Mistakes.” For...
Our ‘Arbiters of Truth’ Podcast Series Has Its Own Feed!
In October 2019, Lawfare introduced a podcast miniseries examining the many controversies roiling the information ecosystem—from debates over disinformation and misinformation, to discussions over how...
Rethinking the Press in an Era of Distrust
A review of Matt Carlson, Seth C. Lewis, and Sue Robinson, “News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture” (Oxford University...
The Jan. 6 Select Committee Isn't Just a Formality
It’s been six months since the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Half a year later, the Justice Department is pursuing criminal charges against over...