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In Just Security, Non-Resident Senior Fellow Michael Hanna outlines what the U.S. should do to contain further deterioration of a Saudia Arabia-UAE rift—one that threatens an already fragile region.

In the latest episode of MSNow‘s Main Justice with Mary McCord and Faculty Co-Director Andrew Weissmann, Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar Tess Bridgeman unpacks U.S. concessions in President Trump’s 14-point memorandum of understanding with Iran, big remaining questions, Congress’ role, and more.

As the Department of Defense removes, replaces, and forces the early retirement of senior U.S. officers, Distinguished Scholar Michael Schmitt quantifies the impact on collective U.S. operational experience.

“Even if [the Senate resolution against the war in Iran is] not binding as such it still has legal effect…it represents Congress’s view of the allocation of war powers and that the president doesn’t have authority to conduct this war,” Non-Resident Senior Fellow Brian Finucane comments in the Wall Street Journal.

Faculty Co-Director Andrew Weissmann joins MS Now to discuss Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s withholding of local officials’ access to evidence from the killings of American citizens in Minnesota—and what this means in advance of Blanche’s confirmation hearing.

For the Washington Post, Non-Resident Senior Fellow Brian Finucane comments on the reframing of the war on terror paradigm to target alleged criminal groups in Latin America.

Following a Russian attack on the Ukrainian Dormition Cathedral, a site of religious and cultural heritage, Distinguished Scholar Michael Schmitt surveys various protections implicated under the law of armed conflict and international criminal law.

“Government that withholds equal standing from some of its members is not merely unjust; it forfeits the allegiance, participation, and productive energy through which political authority is consolidated and extended in practice,” writes Faculty Co-Director Stephen Holmes in a Project Syndicate commentary reflecting on the Declaration of Independence 250 years on.

Following the U.S. attack on a Tren de Aragua leader inside Venezuela, in Just Security, RCLS’s Tess Bridgeman, Michael Schmitt, Ryan Goodman, and Brian Finucane cover applicable bodies of law, possible Venezuelan involvement, and what we know about the administration’s claimed legal basis.

For the Washington Post, Non-Resident Senior Fellow Brian Finucane outlines questions of lawfulness and proportionality raised by U.S. attacks that allegedly destroyed vital Iranian infrastructure.

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