Special Edition: Law and the Soleimani Strike

Published: Jan. 6, 2020, 11:53 p.m.

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On Friday, the Lawfare Podcast hosted a conversation on the wide-ranging policy implications of the U.S. strike that killed Iran\\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leader Qassem Soleimani and militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, deputy commander of Iraq\\u2019s quasi-official Popular Mobilization Forces and leader of the Iraqi militia and PMF Keta\\u2019ib Hezbollah.\\xa0

Today\\u2019s special edition episode leaves the policy debate behind to zero-in on the law behind the strike. Law of war and international law experts Scott R. Anderson, Bobby Chesney, Jack Goldsmith, Ashley Deeks and Samuel Moyn join Benjamin Wittes to discuss the domestic and international law surrounding the strike, how the administration might legally justify it, what the president might do next and how Congress might respond.\\xa0

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