{"id":172,"date":"2026-06-13T11:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2026-06-13T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:07:49","slug":"the-week-that-was-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"The Week That Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Benjamin Wittes announced the release of RAGtime, a new <em>Lawfare<\/em> research platform available in beta to material supporters. A video demonstration of RAGtime is available here and here.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=171\">Undersea Cables and the Material Politics of Digital Connectivity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <em>Lawfare Daily<\/em>, Natalie Orpett spoke with Elora Mukherjee, Director of the Immigrants\u2019 Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, about the legal landscape of immigration detention. The two discussed what rights detained immigrants have, why it&#8217;s so hard to enforce them, and why it&#8217;s even harder to get a remedy when rights are violated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"80px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a29ad117fe177e75b50d09f\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Michael Feinberg continued his dive into the conspiracies around Arctic Frost, the FBI investigation into President Trump and his allies\u2019 attempts to overturn the 2020 Election. Feinberg examined lawmakers\u2019 efforts to portray the investigation as deviating from the FBI\u2019s rules and norms.<\/p>\n<p>Molly Roberts reported from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit where a three judge panel heard oral argument on Trump\u2019s ongoing attempt to build a ballroom on the site of White House\u2019s erstwhile East Wing.<\/p>\n<p>On <em>Lawfare Daily<\/em>, Wittes spoke to Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, and Roberts to discuss oral argument at the D.C. Circuit over the White House ballroom, the status of the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cAnti-Weaponization Fund,\u201d the superseding SPLC indictment, and more.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"80px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a26225f4330c50bd327d04f\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On <em>Rational Security<\/em>, Roberts, Wittes, and Feinberg joined Anderson to discuss Todd Blanche\u2019s nomination to serve as attorney general, where FISA Section 702 stands amidst bipartisan pushback over Federal Housing Finance Director Bill Pulte\u2019s acting appointment, voter fraud conspiracies around the California primary elections, and more.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"80px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60427f9d34b9a27f4b6e3a8d\/6a2c188b685069f99fe95483\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ilya Somin argued that the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decision in <em>Louisiana v. Callais<\/em>, which bars nearly all use of the Voting Rights Act to create majority-minority congressional districts, is not wholly without merit, and to the extent that it has issues, those issues should not be addressed through court-packing.<\/p>\n<p>On <em>Lawfare Daily,<\/em> Feinberg sat down with Andrew Weissmann to discuss Weissmann\u2019s new book, \u201cLiar&#8217;s Kingdom: How to Stop Trump&#8217;s Deceit and Save America,\u201d falsehoods in political discourse, and how to possibly disincentivize lies on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"80px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a2737bb6642088a106afdf3\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anderson explained the legal effects of both chambers of Congress voting to severely curtail U.S. military operations against Iran, even though the resolutions lack the force of law, and what strategies Congress could use to amplify these effects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On <em>Lawfare Daily<\/em>, Orpett spoke with Anderson to discuss what Congress can do to direct the president to end the war in Iran and Anderson\u2019s recent article in <em>Lawfare<\/em> that explains why a likely presidential veto of a War Powers Resolution is not the end of the story.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"80px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a287f346642088a10d94da5\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>William &#8220;Chip&#8221; Usher explored the international ramifications of the U.S. providing assistance for the Khamenei strike and why the executive branch needs to work out what the rules of leadership decapitation are before the next war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=169\">AI Regulation and the Looming Problem of the Takings Clause<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <em>Lawfare Daily<\/em>, Anderson sat down with Joel Braunold for the latest in their regular series on recent developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and related issues. Together, they dug into recent escalations between Israel and Lebanon and their bearing on the broader Iran conflict, including tensions between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the impact on efforts at regional integration, and how it might serve as a spoiler for broader efforts to negotiate the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"80px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a2b1cff440b9d7bbf86e264\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>John Balouziyeh and Charles Lister argued that keeping Syria on the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list hinders its ability to recover and settle its outstanding judgments from the Assad regime.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest edition of <em>Lawfare<\/em>\u2019s Foreign Policy Essay Series, Liya Khan and Andrew Mines assessed the consequences of the slashing of aid to Afghanistan to national security as refugees from Iran and Pakistan exacerbate an existing humanitarian crisis, enabling the growth of groups like the Islamic State-Khorasan Province in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Roxana Vatanparast reviewed Samanatha Subramanian\u2019s book, \u201cThe Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World.\u201d Vatanparast wrote that though the book offers a compelling narrative of undersea cables\u2019 precariousness, it does not fully confront the cables\u2019 implications for governance and sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Herb Lin explained how Russia\u2019s aerial attack on Kyiv\u2019s National Chornobyl Museum violates international humanitarian law and how it fits into Russia\u2019s information warfare aimed at targeting Ukrainian identity and resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Nye explored the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s new supply chain regulations, which empower regulators to penalize routine supply chain investigations and impose sweeping countermeasures on foreign companies, and how the United States and its allies should respond.<\/p>\n<p>Micah Musser examined the legal, technological, and political factors that have made a collision between transparency-focused artificial intelligence (AI) regulations and the Constitution\u2019s Taking Clause increasingly likely.<\/p>\n<p>On <em>Scaling Laws<\/em>, Christoph Winter and Charlie Bullock joined Alan Rozenshtein to discuss their new paper \u201cRadical Optionality: Governing Transformative AI Under Uncertainty,\u201d which argues that, given the possibility of transformative AI within the next decade and deep uncertainty about its capabilities and risks, governments should aggressively build the institutional capacity to regulate competently when needed, rather than either deferring to the market or locking in premature substantive rules.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"80px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/61e878a1419a9b0013b27134\/6a26e2d0427484b4a4c81287\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shaun Ee<span> and <\/span>Jam Kraprayoon<span> argued that managing access to frontier AI buys cyber defenders a head start, but without triage, translation, and distribution, that window will be wasted. They call for an <\/span>\u201dOperation Warp Speed\u201d approach<span> to cyber defense that triages the most vulnerable defenders, translates frontier AI into deployable tools, and distributes those tools at scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=167\">Lawfare Daily: How Escalations in Lebanon May Prolong the Iran War, with Joel Braunold<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your weekly summary of everything on the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawfare-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Week That Was - National Consumer Reports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=172\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Week That Was - 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