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29 Nov 2010, 8:54 pm
When WikiLeaks contacted the State Department in what Jack Goldsmith calls an attempt to “mitigate the harms of publication of the documents to individuals,” State Department legal advisor Harold Koh responded with a letter saying the leaked cables “place at risk the lives of countless innocent individuals,” “place at risk on-going military operations,” and “place at risk on-going cooperation between countries. [read post]
5 Mar 2011, 5:55 am
"--Jack Goldsmith, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and author of The Terror Presidency "In a relentlessly challenging attack on Madisonian pieties, Posner and Vermeule use contemporary examples to argue with verve and style that only politics can realistically check the inevitable dominance of the modern executive. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 5:22 am
Here is Jack Goldsmith arguing that Obama will invoke the UN Security Council resolution as his legal justification (why this is necessary after Clinton’s Kosovo intervention, which had no such resolution, is not explained); here is Andrew Sullivan arguing that Congress should do something, anything (“A congressional vote is also important to rein in the imperial presidency that Obama has now taken to a greater height then even Bush. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 9:20 am
(Jack Goldsmith served as defense co-counsel.) [read post]
9 Oct 2011, 5:20 am
But Ken Anderson has beaten me to it over at Opinio Juris: As Jack Goldsmith and Ben Wittes have argued at Lawfare, and I have argued here, although it is certainly helpful to have a summary in the press about the issues discussed in the secret memo and their resolution, the fact that it is merely leaked (quite apart from not making available the actual text) is a grave part of the problem here. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 10:49 pm
The opinions are classified and while the article is filled with anecdotal quotes from former officials praising former DOJ officials like Comey and former Associate White House Counsel Jack Goldsmith, and criticizing David Addington and Alberto Gonzales, it's short on specifics. [read post]
12 Jan 2022, 9:07 pm
" At the time, Jack Goldsmith eviscerated this rationale. [read post]
5 May 2009, 12:45 pm
David Addington famously challenged Jack Goldsmith's decision to withdraw the torture memos by telling him he would have blood on his hands after the next terrorist attack. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 10:18 am
More recently, Jack Goldsmith and Eric Posner start their book on the limits of international law by saying that it is in fact law. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 10:40 pm
The September 2008 issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly will have an interesting review of Bailey, Jack Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency, and other recent works on executive power. [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 6:51 am
"Ten shifts Negus, drops local bulletin" http://j.mp/h8yaMl the atlantic wire explains "What's at Stake in the Google Books Ruling Other Than Books" http://j.mp/f0nfyw "The campaign against Libya is constitutional" says harvard professor jack goldsmith http://j.mp/hSPNgz siva vaidhyanathan says "The Google Books settlement should teach the company humility. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 5:42 pm
Although Curt Bradley’s post magnanimously notes that his position lost 9-0 in Samantar, it would be wrong to see the decision as a defeat for Curt and his co-author Jack Goldsmith. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 7:44 am
Update: Larkin Reynolds at Lawfare offers a bunch of snippets from the opinion; also at Lawfare, Bobby Chesney offers an objective outline, sans commentary, of the quite long opinion, and Jack Goldsmith and Ben Wittes weigh in with commentary. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 1:37 pm
., this op-ed by Ben Wittes and Jack Goldsmith), Judge Brown seems to think that there is little for courts to do in the interim--that "common law habeas" is not the appropriate forum within which to have these rules articulated by courts. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 11:07 am
Implementing last month’s decision of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to establish a Rule of Law Field Support Mission in Afghanistan—first reported by Jack Goldsmith here—NATO and ISAF on Monday held a simple ceremony in Kandahar to activate the new organization. [read post]
12 Feb 2007, 9:49 pm
Mass. 2006) Books Bruce Ackerman, The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshal and the Rise of Presidential Democracy (Belknap 2005) Jack Goldsmith & Tim Wu, Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World (Oxford 2006) Geoffrey Robertson, The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold (Pantheon 2006; Chatto & Windus 2005) Benjamin Wittes, Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times (Rowman &… [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 11:56 am
And I don't have a conclusive view as to whether this result was a win for the government, but I'm inclined to think that the result is not such a good one for the government, and that Wittes and Jack Goldsmith are right that it's just better to use military detention to incapacitate the other high value detainees rather than prosecute them in any forum. [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 3:26 am
This seems to be the core of Jack Goldsmith’s important post in support of the President’s power that I mentioned earlier. [read post]
26 Mar 2015, 2:00 pm
China’s recent and dramatic reclamation efforts in the South China Sea prompted the March 19, 2015 letter, which Jack Goldsmith characterized as “a strong signal to the Administration, and to China. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 5:48 am
’ Raises Usual Sex Partner Questions" http://j.mp/oCkWfE a different take on #OccupyWallStreet: "Photos of Sexy Occupy Wall Street Protesters" http://j.mp/pWh1By some quality journalism from the daily beast: "Most Well-Hung Characters" http://j.mp/r3iAmd from radio national's pm program this evening: "Watchdog investigates 'political' football commentary" 04/10/2011 http://j.mp/nxeobG an excellent post from jack goldsmith:… [read post]
