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FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) is a law that regulates the collection of foreign intelligence information.
, one state generally must deliver a person who fled to another state when the demanding state formally requests surrender; that duty is implemented by federal statutes (not optional private comity) a...
The FREEDOM Act of 2015 curtailed the most controversial surveillance power created in the post‑9/11 era by ending the government's statutory authority to perform bulk collection of domestic call‑deta...
The legal default at U.S. borders permits warrantless searches of people and their belongings—including electronic devices—under the longstanding "border search" exception to the Fourth Amendment, a p...
To prove that president is "compromised" by a foreign intelligence service requires concrete, multilayered evidence linking a foreign actor’s intelligence activity to the president’s actions, communic...
law enforcement operations on foreign soil are constrained first and foremost by basic principles of state sovereignty and consent: absent host‑nation consent, enforcement activity is presumptively un...
The Trump administration’s defenses against potential International Criminal Court (ICC) scrutiny combine formal legal arguments — chiefly that the ICC lacks jurisdiction over U.S. officials and that ...
State statutes that target “Sharia” typically define the phrase indirectly — not as a detailed set of Islamic legal rules but as “foreign law,” “religious law,” or “any law…derived from a jurisdiction...
When classified intelligence is headed into U.S. criminal trials—especially those implicating foreign leaders—the law threads three overlapping regimes: criminal statutes that forbid mishandling or di...