{"id":259,"date":"2026-07-04T11:10:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=259"},"modified":"2026-07-04T11:10:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:10:41","slug":"the-week-that-was-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"The Week That Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nick Bednar analyzed the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in <em>Trump v. Slaughter,<\/em> which overruled <em>Humphrey\u2019s Executor <\/em>and held that Congress cannot limit the president\u2019s authority to remove principal officers of independent agencies. Bednar explained that the majority\u2019s indeterminate language\u2014relying on the broad term \u201csubordinates\u201d rather than the traditional principal\/inferior officer distinction\u2014leaves open whether the removal power now extends to inferior officers and civil service employees.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=258\">America Won\u2019t Beat the Distillation Ecosystem<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <em>Lawfare Daily<\/em>, Natalie Orpett sat down with Bednar to discuss two Supreme Court rulings, in <em>Slaughter v. Trump<\/em> and <em>Cook v. Trump<\/em>, issued the previous week that will have a huge impact on the president&#8217;s authority to remove personnel at agencies that Congress set up to be independent. They unpacked what the opinions say, what they fail to say, and what it means for the workforce that makes the federal government function.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a4593ba6771af4aa483b07b\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On this week\u2019s <em>Lawfare Live<\/em>: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Molly Roberts, Kate Klonick, Eric Columbus, and Roger Parloff to discuss the Supreme Court&#8217;s decisions on birthright citizenship, the president&#8217;s ability to fire the heads of independent agencies, constitutional protections for location data, and more.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n8Jh-_CcWiw\" title=\"Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 2\" width=\"700\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Roberts analyzed President Trump\u2019s March 2026 executive order on mail-in voting. While the order\u2019s technocratic process of creating mailing lists may seem innocuous, a recent Department of Homeland Security memo reveals the administration\u2019s desire to aggressively create \u201ccitizen lists,\u201d likely disregarding privacy laws in the process.<\/p>\n<p>On <em>Lawfare Daily<\/em>, Orpett sat down with Columbus, Roberts, and Parloff to discuss the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decisions in immigration cases, a federal judge squashing portions of Trump\u2019s mail-in voting executive order, John Bolton pleading guilty, an update in the criminal prosecution of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and more.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a4182a29fa27d16ae93574c\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alex Zerden and Rachel Lyngaas argued that the Treasury\u2019s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) is overdue for reform. Zerden and Lyngaas explained that more than two decades after its founding in the wake of 9\/11, TFI\u2019s name, structure, and component mandates no longer reflect its actual work, and suggested that TFI change its name, establish a permanent chief economist, and return the U.S. Secret Service to the Treasury Department to give the office a criminal enforcement capability it currently lacks.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Lawfare<\/em>\u2019s Foreign Policy Essay series last week, Bennett Clifford questioned the continued use of nihilistic violent extremism as a term to describe the often hyper-online threat actors, whom the FBI says are inspired \u201cprimarily from a hatred of society at large.\u201d The term, he argued, lacks clear meaning and, as a result, prevents policy from being adequately tailored in response.<\/p>\n<p>On <em>Lawfare Daily<\/em>, Daniel Byman sat down with Javier Corrales to discuss the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to pressure Cuba and spur regime change there. They discussed why the Cuban regime stays in power, the effectiveness of different U.S. policy instruments used against Cuba, why Corrales thinks that the Venezuela approach would probably not work in Cuba, and what a post-communist Cuba might look like.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=256\">Justice Delayed, Justice Denied? The HCJ\u2019s ICRC Visits Judgment<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a42d21d71668e37062bd260\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ahead of next week\u2019s NATO summit in Ankara, John Drennan and Ariane Tabatabai analyzed the Trump administration\u2019s vision for \u201cNATO 3.0,\u201d the newest step in the administration\u2019s efforts to increase burden sharing between member countries. Drennan and Tabatabai agreed that member countries needed to increase their efforts, but argued that it must not be viewed as an end in itself, but rather as part of NATO\u2019s goal of deterring Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Yuval Shany and Amichai Cohen analyzed Israel\u2019s High Court of Justice\u2019s decision compelling the Israeli government to resume the International Committee of the Red Cross\u2019s access to\u00a0 Palestinian prisoners after a yearslong ban. While Shany and Cohen credited the court for reaffirming legal limits on government conduct amid war, they argued that the decision is a weaker win for judicial oversight than it seems: the government mounted no real defense, and the court itself may have delayed ruling until the hostage crisis ended to avoid political backlash.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest edition of <em>Lawfare\u2019s<\/em> Foreign Policy Essay series, Alvin Wang Graylin and Jon J. Rosenwasser highlighted two assumptions in U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) policy discussions: that the U.S. can stay ahead in the AI race by denying foreign access to top U.S. models and that AI regulation slows progress in the race against China. Graylin and Rosenwasser argued that both assumptions are flawed and that continued belief in them harms the U.S.\u2019s position in the AI race.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Felstead argued that Anthropic\u2019s recent call to \u201cslow or temporarily pause frontier AI development\u201d would require coordination between AI companies in a way that could violate antitrust laws. He identified a core tradeoff between the ability of a pause to address safety concerns and the likelihood it would be viewed as unlawful collusion.<\/p>\n<p>On <em>Lawfare Daily<\/em>,Klonick and Alan Rozenshtein spoke with Cory Doctorow about his new book, \u201cThe Reverse Centaur&#8217;s Guide to Life After AI.\u201d They discussed the historic investment bubble being built on top of the AI boom, whether the AI bubble will actually burst or merely deflate, the &#8220;reverse centaur,\u201d and more.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a42cdcdc2fe1c7f49d090c0\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And Paul M. Barrett reviewed Josh Tyrangiel\u2019s book, \u201cAI for Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things that Matter.\u201d Barrett applauded the book\u2019s rigorous reporting on case studies of AI deployment for good and highlighted its call for individualized, human-driven analysis when implementing AI tools in daily operations, especially in fields like education and medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=254\">An Optimist\u2019s Account of Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that was the week that was.<\/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-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawfare-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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