presidential power

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• 10/24/2021
  

  Four Myths of Presidential Power

  by Daniel Farber

  History looms large in arguments about the Constitution these days. But there are widespread misunderstandings of what history tells us about presidential powers, from making war to being impeached. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/20/2020
  

  Watergate Led to Reforms. Now, Would-Be Reformers Believe, So Will Trump

  Jack Goldmith and Robert Bauer, legal veterans of the George W. Bush and Obama administrations respectively, are proposing a slate of reforms to limit executive branch powers. They hope to match the legislation passed after Watergate and the revelations of intelligence community abuses exposed by the Church Committee.

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• 6/30/19
  

  Presidential War Powers and Bill Clinton's Battles

  by Paul W. Lovinger

  Reviewing the 1999 attack on Yugoslavia and other belligerent acts: a study of arbitrary power and its supremacy over the Constitution in modern times.

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• SOURCE: Time
  06/13/2019
  

  President Trump Invoked Executive Privilege. Here's the History of That Presidential Power

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  President Trump's use of executive privilege in comparison with other American presidents. 

• SOURCE: NYT
  3-22-13
  

  Mary L. Dudziak: Obama’s Nixonian Precedent

  Mary L. Dudziak, a professor of law and director of the Project on War and Security in Law, Culture and Society at Emory University, is the author of “War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences.”ON March 17, 1969, President Richard M. Nixon began a secret bombing campaign in Cambodia, sending B-52 bombers over the border from South Vietnam. This episode, largely buried in history, resurfaced recently in an unexpected place: the Obama administration’s “white paper” justifying targeted killings of Americans suspected of involvement in terrorism.President Obama is reportedly considering moving control of the drone program from the Central Intelligence Agency to the Defense Department, as questions about the program’s legality continue to be asked. But this shift would do nothing to confer legitimacy to the drone strikes. The legitimacy problem comes from the secrecy itself — not which entity secretly does the killing. Secrecy has been used to hide presidential overreach — as the Cambodia example shows.