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Top 10 Lawfare articles from June---as chosen by our audience!

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#10: Bob Bauer, "Return of the Angry Political Man"

Bauer wrote about Barr's disturbing view of John Durham's mission.
lawfareblog.com/return-angry-p…

#9: @RosenzweigP, "Turns Out It Is Not 85 Percent"

Rosenzweig takes issue with an oft-cited statistic, '85 percent of all critical infrastructure is owned by the private sector'
lawfareblog.com/turns-out-it-n…

#8: @matthew_gluck @tia_sewell @benjaminwittes, "Evaluating the Jan. 6 Committee’s Evidence"

A team at Lawfare breaks down the evidence from the first five #January6thCommitteeHearings to see how it holds up against what the Cmte wants to prove.
lawfareblog.com/evaluating-jan…

#7: Bob Bauer again! This time, "First Nixon, Then Trump: The Serious Problem of the President-as-Candidate"

Bauer writes about what it means when dirty campaign tricks are carried out by the sitting president.
lawfareblog.com/first-nixon-th…

#6 the SCOTUS decision in Egbert v. Boule, up on the site thanks to @katherinepomps.

SCOTUS ruled that claims filed by individuals under Bivens against federal agents do not extend to 4th Amdmt claims of excessive force or 1st Amdmt claims of retaliation.
lawfareblog.com/supreme-court-…

#5: @StephanieKPell @MindingPrivacy, "The Impotence of the Fourth Amendment in a Post-Roe World"

Pell and Dellinger write about The surveillance architecture that will govern investigations in a post-Roe world.
lawfareblog.com/impotence-four…

#4: @benjaminwittes, "Thoughts on the Michael Sussmann Verdict"

Wittes writes about two factual universes colliding in the Sussman trial, and what the verdict means for that showdown.
lawfareblog.com/thoughts-micha…

We'll take a slight pause in this thread before we reveal the top three most read Lawfare articles of June~

In the meantime, which article did you most appreciate from us in June? Is there an article you'll be surprised not to see?

(We will be jumping to #2 without explanation. The world works in mysterious ways.)

#2 @rparloff, "After the Cawthorn Ruling, Can Trump Be Saved From Section 3 of the 14th Amendment?"

Parloff writes about the ruling against Cawthorn (C's argument below), that may see election officials DQ'ing Trump in an election.
lawfareblog.com/after-cawthorn…

#1: Ben Connable, "Russia’s 'Demonstration Army' Is a Red Flag for U.S. Security Force Assistance"

Connable argues that an important factor in Russian failure was a lack of realistic preparatory military exercises.
lawfareblog.com/russias-demons…