A Crisis That Hasn’t Happened
December 14, 2018 · Magazine, Politics, Justice Department
The astonishing resilience of the Department of Justice.
Legal Scholar and Law Professor
Jack Goldsmith
8 articles 2018
Jack Goldsmith is a Harvard Law School professor and legal scholar specializing in national security law, presidential power, and internet governance. He previously served as Assistant Attorney General and head of the Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard in 2018 analyzing the Trump presidency, executive power, media norms, and the Supreme Court.
Trump's Nuclear Option
August 22, 2018 · Magazine, Politics, Donald Trump
With Cohen and Manafort going to jail, the president could choose to burn the system down.
The Rod Rosenstein 'Impeachment' Is a Sham
July 26, 2018 · Magazine, Politics, Rod Rosenstein
The July 25 resolution by 11 House Republicans introducing articles of impeachment against deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein is not a serious legal document.
The Shape of the Post-Kennedy Court
July 2, 2018 · Web Only, Politics, Supreme Court
Anthony Kennedy’s retirement has sparked a free-fall panic among progressives, Democrats, and others who for five decades have enjoyed the fruits of rule-by-judiciary on the nation’s most contested social issues. Left-of-center commentators have proclaimed that Roe is dead, that Kennedy’s famous…
Managing Trump’s Demands
May 25, 2018 · DOJ, Donald Trump, Rod Rosenstein
The Department of Justice plays defense.
The WikiLeaks-ization of the American Media
May 14, 2018
Scott Shane had an interesting piece over the weekend in the New York Times on a topic I wrote about last year: What should journalists do when they receive “authentic and newsworthy” information from a foreign intelligence service? The question has become salient again because of Amy Chozick’s…
Why Is the Media Defending Michelle Wolf?
April 30, 2018 · Politics, media, Donald Trump
Two events over the weekend illuminate the issue of norms and the media in the Trump era.
Leaks, Trump, Norm-Breaking, and False Choices
April 25, 2018 · Donald Trump, Leaks, Politics
I’m grateful for James Freeman’s kind words about my recent essay in the Guardian warning about Deep State leaks, and relieved that he thinks I am “not nearly as far to the left as most Guardian editors.” We agree that there is a serious danger in the Deep State leaks of classified intelligence…