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7 Mar 2018, 10:15 am
Commentators across the spectrum have raised the alarm, including David Frum, a former speechwriter for George W. [read post]
28 Feb 2018, 2:15 pm by John Floyd
They include three former CIA Directors (John Deutch, David Petraeus, and Leon Panetta), a former National Security Adviser (Sandy Berger), and a former U.S. [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
(The Pennsylvania constitution’s standard for impeachability includes, simply, “misbehavior in office. [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 4:12 am by Edith Roberts
Securities and Exchange Commission, which asks whether SEC administrative law judges are “officers of the United States” within the meaning of the appointments clause, arguing that “[t]o effectively extend Article III independence to an Article II officer, regardless of the title attached to the particular positions, would be to create a fourth branch of government (or fifth, or sixth, depending on how one counts various parts of the existing… [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 1:12 pm by Justin Florence, Allison Murphy
 As Jack Goldsmith detailed on Lawfare: The Executive branch, and most notably the Office of Legal Counsel, has through its legal opinions developed an elaborate set of constitutional justifications for unilateral presidential military action. [read post]
5 Feb 2018, 9:33 am by Bob Bauer
The argument against the indictment of the president rests on a 2000 Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion, affirming the office’s conclusion 27 years before. [read post]
29 Jan 2018, 1:51 pm by Benjamin Wittes
” The Washington Post keeps a running tally of Trump’s lies since entering office. [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 7:00 am
The NYPD, though its members are not elected to office, acts as an unofficial gatekeeper that must be appeased before bills become law. [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 10:00 am by Hayley Evans
Such groups continue to target members of the police and armed forces, as well as prison officers. [read post]
1 Jan 2018, 7:00 am by Jack Goldsmith
One of most remarkable stories of 2017 was the extent to which President Donald Trump was prevented from executing his many pledges—both on the campaign trail and in office—to violate the law. [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 9:30 am by Peter Margulies
For example, the government might direct consular officers to consider the social media postings of applicants, including posts supporting terrorist groups. [read post]
25 Dec 2017, 9:40 pm by The Regulatory Review
Chavis Over the last few years, a spate of high-profile deaths at the hands of police officers, and concomitant claims of racial profiling, have prompted calls for widespread reform of local law enforcement agencies. [read post]
25 Dec 2017, 9:40 pm by The Regulatory Review
Chavis Over the last few years, a spate of high-profile deaths at the hands of police officers, and concomitant claims of racial profiling, have prompted calls for widespread reform of local law enforcement agencies. [read post]
20 Dec 2017, 4:00 am by Bob Bauer
” If a president can interfere directly in the choice and course of criminal prosecutions, then standing on “pure” executive authority, he will have available a powerful tool for the dangerous aggrandizement of his office at the expense of the legislative branch. [read post]
14 Dec 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
One is that courts would be in the position of accusing co-equal branches of pretext and dishonesty (or at the very least unawareness of their own true motivation), and that can create friction between the branches. [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 3:00 am by Garrett Hinck
Michael Morrell, Emily Goldman, Ariel Levite, George Perkovich and David Sanger will participate in a conversation. [read post]
3 Dec 2017, 9:30 pm by Series of Essays
Trump has put his son-in-law Jared Kushner in charge of a new Office of American Innovation. [read post]