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Judge Brett Kavanaugh has gone out of his way to express support for the NSA's bulk collection of call detail records and opposition to net neutrality in alarmingly activist fashion.
During the fourth day of hearings on Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, two experts testified on matters that may be of interest to Lawfare readers. Rebecca Ingber, associate professor at Boston University School of Law and contributing editor for Lawfare, testified about Judge Kavanaugh's approaches to executive deference on national security matters and to international law.
The White House’s announcement of the intended nominations of Travis LeBlanc and Aditya Bamzai to be members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) paves the way for the board to be operational again.
On Monday, Judge Dabney Friedrich of the the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled against a motion challenging the constitutionality of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment. The full order is below:
Twenty years ago, Brett Kavanaugh and I were on the team that drafted Kenneth Starr’s impeachment referral. Here’s what the Supreme Court nominee did and did not do.
Support for Gina Haspel’s nomination to be CIA director jumped noticeably after her confirmation hearing.
President Trump’s nomination of Robert Wilkie to serve as veterans affairs secretary disqualifies him from continuing to serve as the acting secretary. Does that mean the White House doesn’t understand the Federal Vacancies Reform Act?
On Monday, CIA director nominee Gina Haspel submitted the following responses to written questions from members of the Senate intelligence committee.
//-->To protect the independence of the CIA, its leader must enjoy strong bipartisan support—and that can only come with a nominee who is not disqualified by her deep involvement with and support for torture.
Gina Haspel will testify before the Senate intelligence committee beginning at 9:30 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday.