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5 Jan 2016, 7:45 am by Quinta Jurecic
Back in November, The Hill reported that the White House is looking into increasing the transparency of the drone program before President Obama’s imminent departure from office: The White House wants to reduce the secrecy surrounding lethal drone strikes and other counterterrorism efforts, with an eye on President Obama's legacy when he leaves office in 14 months. [read post]
4 Oct 2016, 4:51 am by J. Dana Stuster
” Lawfare’s Jack Goldsmith and Stephen Vladeck seconded those concerns in an editorial for CNN. [read post]
26 Jan 2010, 11:40 pm by charonqc
I commented on yesterday’s proceedings at the Iraq Inquiry below: Breaking News: What will Jack do now? [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 9:00 am by Masha Simonova
First, Jack Goldsmith has argued that such application requires a statutory “clear statement” that such statutes apply. [read post]
6 Jun 2018, 5:49 am by Matthew Weybrecht
Defining the “Norm” As a threshold matter, Jack Goldsmith has pointed out that the idea that presidents “strictly comply” with the norm against weighing in on specific investigations is naïve. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 12:59 pm by Quinta Jurecic
” Writing in Lawfare after the Capitol riot, Jack Goldsmith and David Priess pointed out that the amendment “was not intended as a mechanism to remove from power a physically functioning president who simply lacks the capacity of character to perform his oath and who is wielding the powers and platform of the office in historically destructive ways. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 2:18 pm by Jonathan Shaub
Two seminal events have occurred in recent days in the ongoing oversight war between the House of Representatives and the Trump administration—and in the ongoing expansion of the doctrine of executive privilege. [read post]
13 Mar 2017, 10:45 am by Jordan Brunner
The New York Times reports that the Trump administration is looking into loosening Obama-era constraints intended to prevent civilian deaths from counterterrorism missions outside conventional war zones. [read post]
9 Apr 2016, 9:53 am by Rita Siemion, Heather Brandon
Marty Lederman provided a broad summary over at Just Security and here at Lawfare Jack Goldsmith, Ashley Deeks, and Daniel Bethlehem have been discussing Egan’s treatment of imminence under the jus ad bellum. [read post]
12 Mar 2018, 3:00 am by William Ford
Jack Goldsmith will interview Chua about the book. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 5:06 am by Anne Tindall, Jessica Marsden
 (Full disclosure: Protect Democracy, the group sponsoring the report, represents Lawfare contributors and editors Benjamin Wittes, Jack Goldsmith, Scott Anderson and Susan Hennessey on a number of separate matters.) [read post]
1 Jan 2018, 7:00 am by Bob Bauer
He is particularly uninterested in following the generally accepted governing norms, those unwritten or informal rules that, as Jack Goldsmith has written, presidents “typically” follow. [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 12:56 pm by Elina Saxena
” Lawfare’s Jack Goldsmith shared his thoughts on Schiff’s draft for an ISIS AUMF, and the Washington Post highlights the challenges of passing this type of authorization. [read post]
22 Jan 2020, 5:06 am by Randy Beck, John Langford
As Jack Goldsmith explains, “[O]ur country has—through presidential aggrandizement accompanied by congressional authorization, delegation, and acquiescence—given one person, the president, a sprawling military and enormous discretion to use it in ways that can easily lead to a massive war. [read post]
2 Jun 2014, 7:51 am by Jack Goldsmith
I am struck in particular by Jack Goldsmith’s comment on Kinsley’s review, because his remarks appear overly restrictive with respect to the legitimacy of secrecy and overly generous with respect to the legitimacy of the press. [read post]
29 Jul 2007, 12:11 am
When President Bush signed the 2004 DoD Appropriations bill, on September 30, 2003 (just before Jack Goldsmith took over at OLC), he issued a signing statement that raised a constitutional objection to section 8131. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 9:20 am
Jack Goldsmith published a book "The Terror Presidency" with behind the scenes revelations about his tenure at the OLC. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 5:19 pm by Jane Chong
Jack Goldsmith is fairly described as the polar opposite of an alarmist. [read post]
24 Jun 2016, 8:28 am by Samuel Moyn
Jack Goldsmith has done so from the perspective of the dynamics of the branches of government, and a forthcoming book by Rosa Brooks tracks a comparable evolution within the military. [read post]