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Bob Bauer
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First Nixon, Then Trump: The Serious Problem of the President-as-Candidate
The Jan. 6 committee has concluded, with good evidence in hand, that, after Election Day in 2020, the Trump-Pence campaign began soliciting money from unwilling…
Return of the Angry Political Man
Only days following Special Counsel John Durham’s failed prosecution of Michael Sussmann, former Attorney General Bill Barr appeared on Fox News and offered a remarkable…
Angry Political Man
A review of Elie Honig, “Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor’s Code and Corrupted the Justice Department” (Harper, July 2021) *** A book…
The Danger of the Moment
The question during the Donald Trump presidency and then again after the 2020 election was whether Trump’s norm-shattering presidency would prompt a sustained reform initiative…
Reflections on Reform of the Impeachment Process
The first impeachment of an American president took place 79 years after George Washington’s election. Then another 106 years passed before the next major congressional…
NYU School of Law Hosts Bipartisan Event on Congress’ Role in National Security
Editor’s Note: This annoucement is crossposted with Just Security. Amid all the intense attention to the constitutional conflicts between the branches, readers who follow the…
The Limits and Implications of the McGahn Case on White House Aide Immunity
After Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held that senior White House aides do not enjoy absolute…