Tyler McBrien
Managing Editor at Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org
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Writing in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Slate, Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and more: www.tylermcbrien.com
- Incredibly helpful, detailed breakdown of who's who on Trump's National Security Council, how the NSC shapes US foreign policy, and why the Trump 47 NSC may be different from its predecessors, from the Institute for Global Affairs (housed at @eurasiagroup.net)
- This new Times piece on the last month of American bombing of Yemen has some insane details. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
- UPDATE: Per MSNBC, Rümeysa Öztürk has been released. bsky.app/profile/kyle...
- NEW: Judge Sessions' latest order in the Öztürk case suggests a disturbing conclusion that she was not released immediately after the judge's previous order to do so this afternoon. h/t @johnhawkinson.bsky.social
- NEW: Judge Sessions' latest order in the Öztürk case suggests a disturbing conclusion that she was not released immediately after the judge's previous order to do so this afternoon. h/t @johnhawkinson.bsky.social
- NEW: The govt listed four more instances of the SecState invoking the foreign policy provision under a predecessor statute. Three in 1995 under Sec Christopher (including the oft-cited Massieu case which the judge—Trump's sister—deemed unconstitutional) and one from 1997 under Sec Albright
- UPDATE: After Judge Farbiarz ordered the govt to provide a complete list of instances in which the SecState invoked the foreign policy provision at issue in the Khalil case, the govt gave 3 examples in a letter this morning (2 of them by Sec Rubio himself) with another update to come around 5pm
- NEW: In the Mahmoud Khalil case, Judge Farbiarz orders the government to give him a COMPLETE LIST of every time since 1975 it has invoked the secretary of state's power to deport someone for foreign-policy reasons—including a description of each case's facts and a copy of the official determination.
- The first American pope has been named... it's Jeb!
- A week before the inauguration, we at @lawfaremedia.org accepted an essay from a West Point professor arguing that political neutrality sometimes obligates military resistance to lawful orders. Three days into the 2nd Trump admin, facing pressure from West Point, the author withdrew the essay.
