Hyemin Han
hyemin.bsky.social
Hyemin Han
@hyemin.bsky.social
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At 1:30pm the DC Circuit will hear arguments on whether to stay Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining order, which is preventing summary removals of alleged Tren de Aragua members under the Alien Enemies Act. Curtain-raiser:
1/20
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March 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Good morning from 100 Centre Street in Manhattan, where the President-elect is set to be criminally sentenced on 34 felony convictions for falsification of business records.

I’m here with @tylermcbrien.bsky.social and @katherinepomps.bsky.social for @lawfare.bsky.social.

Follow along 👇 ⬇️🧵
January 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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T-15 minutes to oral argument! I'll be covering it in this thread. And @lawfare.bsky.social will be doing a post-argument live event at 3 PM ET. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...
Lawfare Live: Discussing TikTok Oral Arguments at SCOTUS
Join the Lawfare team for a discussion on the Friday Supreme Court oral arguments.
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January 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Personal: I’ve left the NPR mothership after an incredible year on the campaign trail to cover state politics for WXXI / NY Public News Network out of Albany. I’m still in the NPR family, and it’ll be exciting to cover NY as a Syracuse native.

My first day is Dec. 30! Say hi - DMs/in Albany!
December 28, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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Matt Gluck and @hyemin.bsky.social explain the ongoing litigation over the ability to admit statements allegedly obtained through torture in the Guantanamo Bay military commissions in the prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
A Useful Argument at the Intersection of Two Military Commissions Cases
One of the defendants in the military commissions could benefit from illuminating a statutory change in a key evidentiary dispute.
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November 2, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Why isn’t CyberTipline, the reporting mechanism for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the U.S., working as well as it should?

@shelbygrossman.bsky.social, Riana Pfefferkorn, and @sarashah19.bsky.social explain and make recommendations for potential solutions.
Challenges in the Online Child Safety Ecosystem
How to improve the system for reporting child sex abuse material online. 
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April 30, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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Before oral argument in Trump v. Anderson next week, @hyemin.bsky.social asked @samuelmoyn.bsky.social & Ilya Somin to discuss the political arguments for and against disqualifying Trump under Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment and how the Court should rule on today’s Lawfare Podcast.
The Lawfare Podcast: Sam Moyn and Ilya Somin on Disqualifying Trump Under Section 3
How might the Supreme Court decide Trump v. Anderson?
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February 2, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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@benjaminwittes.bsky.social and @qjurecic.bsky.social explain the two court rulings from Friday on whether presidential immunity applies to Trump's actions leading up to, and on, Jan. 6, 2021—and why one may be a bigger deal than the other.
Two Court Rulings on Presidential Immunity Move the Trump Cases Forward
Rulings by federal district and appeals courts in Washington, D.C. will make it a lot harder for Trump to delay his trial in the Jan. 6 case.
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December 4, 2023 at 10:34 PM
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On today's Lawfare Podcast, @hyemin.bsky.social talked to Mark Lattimer about his recent Lawfare article arguing that Israel’s tolerance for civilian deaths seems to surpass that of the U.S. and U.K.’s in the war against ISIS, the case study used to make this point, and more.
The Lawfare Podcast: Comparing Civilian Casualty Tolerance in the Israel-Hamas War to the War Agains...
Mark Lattimer discusses his recent article on Israel’s tolerance for civilian deaths
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November 30, 2023 at 2:51 PM
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March 10, 1975: Secretary of State Henry Kissinger quips to Turkey’s foreign minister in Ankara, “Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings, ‘The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.’ But since the [FOIA], I’m afraid to say things like that.”
November 30, 2023 at 2:25 AM
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this was a tough article to write, as articles about this kind of abuse often are. I came into this appalled by the allegations against Omegle but leery of FOSTA, the Section 230 carveout that the plaintiffs used to successfully get the suit past the motion-to-dismiss stage. but...
Earlier this month, the anonymous chat website Omegle shut down as part of a settlement in a lawsuit over child sexual explotiation. Is the closure a victory against online sexual abuse, or a step onto a slippery slope? For @lawfare.bsky.social with @katherinepomps.bsky.social
What the Omegle Shutdown Means for Section 230
Is the closure of the anonymous videochatting site a victory against online sexual abuse, or a step onto a slippery slope?
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November 27, 2023 at 6:30 PM
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Three college students of Palestinian descent were shot by a white man near the University of Vermont on Saturday, the police said. The authorities in Burlington are investigating the shooting as a possible hate crime, the city’s mayor said.
Shooting of 3 Palestinian Men in Vermont Investigated as Possible Hate Crime
The three college students were on their way to dinner on Saturday night. The police have yet to identify a suspect.
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November 26, 2023 at 9:55 PM
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"Judge Pillard returns to witnesses: Can’t there be a prophylactic order aimed at preventing threats to them?"
"'What is described as a threat here is core political speech,' Sauer responds."

@hyemin.bsky.social's dispatch on the Trump gag order appellate args:
Three Appellate Judges, Two Hours, and a First Amendment Conundrum
The D.C.Circuit arguments on Judge Chutkan’s partial gag order on Trump.
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November 22, 2023 at 6:10 PM
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An IHL proportionality test of Israel's Oct. 31 airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp suggests that Israel’s civilian casualties tolerance is “completely out of step” with U.S. and U.K. tolerance in ops in the war against ISIS, argues Mark Lattimer.
Assessing Israel’s Approach to Proportionality in the Conduct of Hostilities in Gaza
The Jabalia strike indicates that the IDF’s tolerance for civilian casualties is multiples greater than that of the U.S. in the ISIS war.
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November 16, 2023 at 10:25 PM
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Today, Lawfare is launching the Trump Disqualification Tracker—a page created by @hyemin.bsky.social and Caleb Benjamin to track challenges in the states to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot under Sec. 3 of the 14th amendment
Trump Disqualification Tracker
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October 30, 2023 at 6:31 PM
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@hyemin.bsky.social provides a dispatch in absentia of Walt Nauta’s potential potential conflicts hearing on Oct. 20 that had been re-scheduled after the Oct. 12 hearing imploded:
The Waltine Nauta Garcia Hearing That Was
A detailed summary of what happened at Nauta’s potential conflicts hearing on Oct. 20.
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October 26, 2023 at 9:49 PM
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The advocacy group that brought the original affirmative action case is challenging the Supreme Court’s military academies carveout. @hyemin.bsky.social summarizes the legal challenges raised in their suit against the nation’s oldest military academy, West Point.
The National Security Footnote in the Affirmative Action Decision
The Supreme Court has set up a problem ripe with pitfalls for the government to navigate in Students for Fair Action v. West Point.
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October 13, 2023 at 7:51 PM
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Today’s Lawfare Podcast is about modern economic empire. @hyemin.bsky.social talked to @himself.bsky.social and Abe Newman about how the U.S. accidentally weaponized the global economy & the interaction between national security objectives and economic statecraft.
The Lawfare Podcast: A Weaponized World Economy with Henry Farrell and Abe Newman
How has technological innovation impacted economic warfare?
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September 20, 2023 at 3:05 PM
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Fear not removal, with Anna Bower and Alan Rozenshstein:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/in-f...
In Fulton County, Fear Not Removal
The issue is complicated, but removal of the Fulton County case to federal court would not be a disaster—and is probably the right answer.
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September 7, 2023 at 1:16 PM
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In 2022, the U.S. government said it wouldn’t use torture evidence in Guantanamo Bay litigation. So how is it still being relied on in certain cases?

On today's Lawfare Podcast, @hyemin.bsky.social spoke to Scott Roehm about recent torture evidence developments at GMTO:
The Lawfare Podcast: Can Torture Evidence Be Used at Guantanamo Bay?
How is it that torture-obtained evidence still seems to be being used in certain GTMO cases? 
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August 8, 2023 at 2:57 PM
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The Jan. 6 grand jury handed up an indictment of former President Donald Trump earlier today. 

Here’s the story of Trump and his co-conspirators’ efforts to overturn the election, as told by the special counsel.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trump-jan.-6-indictment-the-facts
August 2, 2023 at 3:17 AM
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Today, the D.C. Circuit denied Guantanamo Bay detainee Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul's life sentence appeal and agreed with the government’s arguments regarding the use of torture-obtained evidence in the case. Read the opinion, from @hyemin.bsky.social:
D.C. Circuit Denies GTMO Detainee Al Bahlul’s Appeal of Life Sentence
Guantanamo Bay detainee Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul will have to continue serving the life sentence given to him by the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review.
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July 25, 2023 at 4:17 PM
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if Trump is indicted on Barbie Day I swear to god
July 18, 2023 at 2:04 PM
The top story on NYT right now is about @benjaminwittes.bsky.social ‘s protest pranks on the Russian embassy, perfectly punctuated by the fact that he was banned from Twitter for impersonating the Russian Embassy
July 4, 2023 at 12:00 AM