My take on the War Powers Resolution debate. Trump's interpretation is the latest in a long line of opportunistic interpretations of the statute. Yet the WPR is not, yet, irrelevant.
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Trump’s harsh reactions toward the Supreme Court's tariff decision were a “gift to the Chief Justice,” according to @whignewtons.
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My discussion with @whignewtons (Sarah Isgur) about her great new book about the Supreme Court, "The Last Branch Standing." We focus on the Court's relationship with the Trump administration and its stance toward presidential power more generally.
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Bob Bauer writes on potential reform to help protect against a DOJ that answers reliably to a president’s personal and political demands. https://t.co/Siorr2nfYo
Good point from Bob Bauer and @jacklgoldsmith in their @Exec_Functions Substack: If Trump had sought Congress's OK for war, he might have seen more of its perils in the course of arguing for it. Via @NonZeroNews: https://t.co/JxoOSqIcl6
Me and Bob Bauer: One month in, Epic Fury is the second most consequential unauthorized presidential uses of force in all of American history. It’s also a new nadir in the decline of Congress’s check on presidential war.
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Me on how Trump is diminishing the Inspector General corps, with an assist from Congress, especially the Senate. “The IG story is part of a larger tale of Congress giving up its prerogatives and supporting Trump’s unitary executive despite its abuses.”
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A conversation with @CassSunstein on his new book, why the executive is the most dangerous branch, unitary executive theory in light of the Trump v. Slaughter oral argument, and MQD after the tariffs decision.
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Bob Bauer proposes Congress pass a joint resolution stating its constitutional interpretation of presidential war powers—an approach that could challenge expansive executive war-making claims when a vote to stop the Iran conflict at this stage will fail: https://t.co/54wEutrvH7
Asked by NYT “if there were any limits on his global powers,” Trump said “My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
I’m afraid those are the only constraints on Trump’s use of nuclear weapons in Iran.
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Bob Bauer analyzes DOJ's about-face on defending Trump's law firm executive orders: "If it was possible to bring even more discredit to this attack on the legal profession, the administration managed to do it over a span of less than 24 hours."
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How might the resource allocations and career official firings in DOJ/FBI and DHS impact efforts now to protect the homeland from what USG acknowledges are heightened threats related to the Iran war? Full conversation here. https://t.co/DMdbL0QfnF
Homeland Security in a Time of War with Iran: My discussion with Biden Homeland Security Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall on how the U.S. government would normally prepare for domestic threats during periods of heightened risk. https://t.co/EC9QnjwvNE