Climate change, Arctic security and why the U.S. should join the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea
This latest CERL blog post is by Mark Nevitt, a law professor whose research focuses on climate change’s legal and national security implications
Iran’s isolation continues: A stranger among (feuding) friends
Read this op-ed on LSE’s Middle East Centre blog by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Penn history professor and member of CERL’s Advisory Council
Proceed with caution: Why curtailing Section 230 immunity is not the solution to social media regulation
Blog post author Ashley Fuchs asks how can the government require more accountability from Big Tech for its content without eroding the innovation and free expression CDA 230 brings about?
How AG Barr distorted the DOJ
In this Checks and Balances podcast, Claire Finkelstein and Don Ayer, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General, talk with Paul Rosenzweig on their forthcoming report on the DOJ and the rule of law
Let’s “never forget” to honor the U.S. Constitution
Advisory council member Mark Fallon reminds us of the CIA torture program put in place after 9/11 and what our democracy lost as a result
Weapons sales to UAE and Saudi Arabia
Claire Finkelstein commented in this Al Jazeera interview
CERL focuses on USPS privatization and politicization issues of the USPS
CERL advisory council member Richard Painter testified before the House Oversight Committee on recent actions taken by Postmaster General DeJoy (print ). On 9/13, Profs. Painter and Finkelstein submitted a letter to the Operations Subcommittee on the privatization and politicization issues
New CNAS-CERL-APPC commentary: #Protect2020
Homeland Security’s Christopher Krebs writes about an unprecedented effort over the last four years to ensure that the 2020 election is as secure as any in U.S. history.
Trump’s PR can’t stop the virus
Read this opinion in The Hill by CERL board member Dr. Stephen Xenakis and Jonathan Moreno, Penn professor of medical ethics and health policy
New commentary on partnerships to protect democracy: states vs. nation-states
Connecticut’s Deputy Secretary of the State Scott Bates wrote this commentary for the CNAS-CERL-APPC 2020 Elections Project
Pompeo’s unlawful RNC speech for Trump should alarm all Americans
Read this Newsweek opinion by Claire Finkelstein and Richard Painter
Pompeo’s Jerusalem speech violated Hatch Act, complaint says
Claire Finkelstein and Richard Painter filed the complaint with the Office of Special Counsel
“This is indicative of something much more dangerous to our democracy”
CERL advisory council member Richard Painter comments on how government agencies “have been turned into arms of [the president’s] political campaign” in this New York Times article
Protecting election integrity by prohibiting deception and disenfranchisement
Read this commentary by Chimène Keitner, written for the commentary series of the CNAS-CERL-APPC 2020 Elections Project
New commentaries on what the U.S. can learn from other countries to combat election interference
Read European lessons for tackling election interference by Erik Brattberg and The growing threat of domestic disinformation in Poland by Nina Jankowicz
Richard Meyer joins CERL as interim executive director
New CERL blog post: July Twitter hack underscores the need to nix ‘sole authority’
Jules Zacher and Theo Wilson call for lawmakers to replace the policy that gives the president sole authority to deploy nuclear weapons with one that reflects 21st century realities
CERL blog post: Ballots are secure, knowledge on vote-by-mail is not
Ashley Fuchs, Alana Sheppard and Robert Stoffa contend that lawmakers concerned about election security should stop focusing on ballot fraud and start educating voters on how to vote by mail effectively
There’s still time to protect American democracy against threats to the 2020 elections
A commentary by Claire Finkelstein and Carrie Cordero, released by the CNAS-CERL-APPC Election Project
Gen. Joseph Votel talks about the necessity of an apolitical American military
Claire Finkelstein interviews General Votel in this Penn Law podcast
Election date delay not legally possible, the necessity of mail-in voting
Claire Finkelstein is interviewed by Al Jazeera
New blog post: The deployment of federal agents in Portland is a harbinger of authoritarianism
State-federal conflicts surrounding law enforcement responses to violent protests present a U.S. authoritarianism crisis of nearly unparalleled proportions, according to Claire Finkelstein and Kevin Govern
New blog post – The FISA Court serves an essential purpose
The debate stemming from the revelations of the FBI’s broken FISA application process should not put the existence of the FISA court in jeopardy, according to George Croner, a CERL advisory council member
Letter to NLRB about Memorandum GC 20-08
Co-drafted by CERL advisory council member Richard Painter
Trump’s unitary executive theory meets Cyrus Vance on Fifth Avenue
An opinion by Claire Finkelstein and Richard Painter published by Bloomberg Law
One response to a national crisis: The imperative for improving civic education
In this CERL blog post, Ted McConnell and Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker explain that civic illiteracy disproportionately impacts communities most in need of advocating for themselves.
Robert Mueller’s response to Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence
Watch Richard Painter, CERL advisory council member, during this Al Jazeera interview
The US needs a global coalition to defeat COVID
General Joseph Votel (ret.), CERL board member and former CENTCOM commander, co-wrote this article in Defense One
The Supreme Court just revoked Trump’s get-out-of-jail-free card
A Washington Post opinion on the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Vance by Claire Finkelstein and Richard Painter