Day Sixty Falls and the White House Treats It Like Any Other
The 1973 War Powers Resolution's 60-day clock runs out today and Washington has decided the deadline does not exist.
Samuel Crane
Bureau: Washington
Comey's Defense Promises a Vindictive-Prosecution Motion With Fitzgerald as Counsel
Patrick Fitzgerald — yes, that one — has signed on to a motion that will read like a docket of every Trump and DOJ statement about Comey since 2017.
The Pentagon Minab Silence Hits Day Three as Five Former Officials Break the Wall
Nine weeks since a U.S. strike killed 168 at a girls' school, five former officials including a senior military lawyer call the Pentagon silence highly unusual.
The House Passed a Three-Year FISA Bill and the Senate Buried It Under a Forty-Five-Day Stopgap
Yesterday this paper said the FISA cliff was a Senate floor problem; last night the Senate dodged the floor entirely with a unanimous-consent 45-day stopgap.
Cole Allen Detention Waiver Clock Runs Toward the May Eleven Prelim
Two days after Allen waived his right to challenge detention, the docket has produced no new filings — and the preliminary hearing sits ten days out.