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The Week That Was

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-week-that-was-9-5-2026

Published: September 5, 2026 11:00

Your weekly summary of everything on the site.

Free Speech, Deportation, and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/free-speech--deportation--and-the-suspension-of-habeas-corpus

Published: September 4, 2026 16:00

Denying habeas review of detention for protected speech risks accomplishing in practice what the Constitution forbids without actual suspension.

USPS Plays a 'Puzzle Game' With the Right to Vote

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/usps-plays-a-'puzzle-game'-with-the-right-to-vote

Published: September 4, 2026 14:03

Months away from elections, a federal judge worries President Trump's mail-in voting executive order could cause disenfranchisement.

China's Private-Sector Botnets Are Worth Disrupting

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/china's-private-sector-botnets-are-worth-disrupting

Published: September 4, 2026 12:00

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.

Lawfare Daily: Mike Schmidt Talks CHIPS and U.S. Industrial Policy

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfare-daily--mike-schmidt-talks-chips-and-u.s.-industrial-policy

Published: September 4, 2026 11:00

In this episode of the Security Economics podcast series Mike Schmidt discusses the CHIPS Act.

Open-Weight Diplomacy: How China’s AI Models Are Rerunning the Digital Silk Road

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/open-weight-diplomacy--how-china-s-ai-models-are-rerunning-the-digital-silk-road

Published: September 3, 2026 17:00

China's “free” AI models are rerunning Huawei’s telecom playbook: Give the weights away, sell the stack around it, own the dependency.

Rational Security: The "Whale of a Tale" Edition

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/rational-security--the--whale-of-a-tale--edition

Published: September 3, 2026 16:30

Scott Anderson, Molly Roberts, Eric Columbus, and Renée DiResta to talked through the week’s big domestic news stories.

Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, September 4

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfare-live--the-trials-of-the-trump-administration--september-4

Published: September 3, 2026 16:00

Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation surrounding the Trump administration.

The ‘Covered List’: A Fraud Claimed ‘National Security’

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the--covered-list---a-fraud-claimed--national-security

Published: September 3, 2026 13:55

A tool built to block Huawei and Hikvision now bans drones, routers, and solar inverters—undermining the security it was meant to protect.

Lawfare Daily: Peter Salib on the Legal and Policy Ramifications of the OpenAI-Hugging Face Postmortems

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfare-daily--peter-salib-on-the-legal-and-policy-ramifications-of-the-openai-hugging-face-postmortems

Published: September 3, 2026 11:00

What does the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident mean for the broader AI evaluation ecosystem?

AIs as Modern Genies

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ais-as-modern-genies

Published: September 2, 2026 18:00

With AI we have built genies. Old stories told us how this goes.

Search Warrants for Election Materials Get Their Day in Court

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/search-warrants-for-election-materials-get-their-day-in-court

Published: September 2, 2026 16:00

The California Supreme Court has a chance to emphasize that the criminal justice system isn’t built to “double-check” election results.

Persistent Engagement and the Illusion of Cyber Equilibrium

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/persistent-engagement-and-the-illusion-of-cyber-equilibrium

Published: September 2, 2026 13:59

Strategies built to disrupt cyber adversaries may impose costs but are unlikely to lead to long-term stability.

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, September 1

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfare-daily--the-trials-of-the-trump-administration--september-1

Published: September 2, 2026 11:00

In a conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Molly Roberts and Roger Parloff to discuss the Supreme Court granting a stay of the district court's preliminary injunction, allowing President Trump to…

The Supreme Court’s Ballroom Non-Decision

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-supreme-court-s-ballroom-non-decision

Published: September 1, 2026 16:00

The Court avoided the merits of Trump’s ballroom fight by leaning on aesthetic standing—and left the doctrine murkier than before.

Governance by Shakedown

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/governance-by-shakedown

Published: September 1, 2026 15:00

How the administration converts legal pretexts into coercive leverage—and why the tactic works even when courts say no.

White House Unveils Program to Authorize Private-Sector Cyber Surveillance and Disruption Operations

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/white-house-unveils-program-to-authorize-private-sector-cyber-surveillance-and-disruption-operations

Published: September 1, 2026 14:02

The Aug. 12 presidential memorandum directing the creation of a private-sector hacking program raises novel questions for participants.

Scaling Laws: Building AI Assurance Ecosystem

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/scaling-laws--building-ai-assurance-ecosystem

Published: September 1, 2026 14:00

Bri Treece, Executive Director of PACT AI, and Dr. Rob Slone, Chief Scientist & Innovation Officer at UL Solutions, join Kevin Frazier, Director of the AI Innovation and Law Program at Texas Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to discuss a neglected layer…

Lawfare Daily: How Terrorist Groups are Using Artificial Intelligence

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfare-daily--how-terrorist-groups-are-using-artificial-intelligence

Published: September 1, 2026 11:00

Discussing the risk of catastrophic AI-enabled terrorism.

Lawfare Live: Supreme Court Allows White House Ballroom Construction to Continue

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfare-live--supreme-court-allows-white-house-ballroom-construction-to-continue

Published: August 31, 2026 21:43

Watch the live discussion at 11am ET on September 1.

White House Releases Executive Order Declaring a National Emergency Regarding the Electrical Grid

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/white-house-releases-executive-order-declaring-a-national-emergency-regarding-the-electrical-grid

Published: August 31, 2026 19:13

The order authorizes the secretary of energy to prohibit transactions with foreign entities deemed to be national security risks.

The “GEC Files” Don’t Show a Censorship Operation

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the--gec-files--don-t-show-a-censorship-operation

Published: August 31, 2026 16:23

The State Department promised proof of a vast censorship scheme. The documents Sarah Rogers released show something else entirely.

The First Amendment Problems With Meta’s $17 Billion Deal

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-first-amendment-problems-with-meta-s--17-billion-deal

Published: August 31, 2026 14:48

Meta's settlement includes some social media speech restrictions that states can't directly impose.

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, August 28

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfare-daily--the-trials-of-the-trump-administration--august-28

Published: August 31, 2026 11:00

Listen to the August 28 livestream as a podcast.

Understanding Al-Shabaab’s Recruitment Pipeline

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/understanding-al-shabaab-s-recruitment-pipeline

Published: August 30, 2026 13:00

Members’ motivations are changing, and the approach of counter-recruitment programs must respond.