lawfare

Lawfare makes for strange bedfellows.

It also had a vanguard element for conservative lawfare against the reviled Fourth Estate: As Slate’s Seth Stevenson noted in his coverage at the time of the trial at the time, Charles Harder, the lead attorney for the Hulk Hogan lawsuit that led to Gawker’s demise, was there, taking fastidious notes.

“The President is delivering on his promises of eradicating Partisan Lawfare in America, and restoring Liberty and Justice FOR ALL.”

In Lawfare, habeas expert Amanda Tyler writes that the answer may depend on the U.S. government’s leverage over the Salvadoran government, and whether it can, as a practical matter, demand the return of an inmate.

On this week’s show, Dahlia is first joined by Quinta Jurecic, a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare, to discuss the deeply worrying shift in the Trump regime’s posture toward judges and the rule of law, that’s been playing out inside and outside the courts this week.