national security law

  • FBI Disrupts Alleged New Year’s Eve Terrorist Attack; Man Charged With Attempting to Support ISIS

    Federal authorities say they have disrupted an alleged New Year’s Eve terror plot after arresting and charging an 18-year-old North Carolina man with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. In a statement released January 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice announced…

  • Explainer: Why The FBI Searched John Bolton’s Home And Office

    The FBI searched the Maryland home and Washington, D.C. office of John Bolton, former national security adviser to Donald Trump, as part of an investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information. The move underscores the sensitive intersection of national security law, executive privilege, and the government’s power to enforce secrecy agreements. What Triggered the…

  • How One Of The Most Controversial Espionage Trials In U.S. History Still Reverberates Through National Security And Due Process Law

    In the annals of American jurisprudence, few cases have generated the enduring controversy, political intrigue, and constitutional debate as the 1951 espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Convicted of conspiring to pass atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, the Rosenbergs became the first—and only—American civilians executed for espionage during peacetime in U.S. history. Decades…