Book Reviews
Angry Political Man
Bob Bauer Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 2:06 PM
A review of Elie Honig, “Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department” (Harper, July 2021).
Bob Bauer served as White House Counsel to President Obama. In 2013, the President named Bob to be Co-Chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. He is a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law, as well as the co-director of the university's Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic. In 2020, he served as a senior advisor to the Biden campaign.
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Election Administration
The Danger of the Moment
Bob Bauer Mon, May 24, 2021, 3:01 PM
Donald Trump is promoting, and his party is using various means of achieving, a politicized electoral process in which politicians would have more power to direct the running of elections in their self-interest.
Impeachment
Reflections on Reform of the Impeachment Process
Bob Bauer Fri, Feb 19, 2021, 10:59 AM
Congress needs to clearly establish the Senate’s role in fact-finding during impeachment and define the procedure as a constitutional, not a legal, process.
Impeachment
Trump’s Answer to the Senate and the Constitutional Stakes in the Pending Trial
Bob Bauer Tue, Feb 9, 2021, 11:22 AM
The overriding question in the pending trial is whether the Senate trial will be the occasion for a seminal judgment on Trump’s conception of the office of the presidency.
Executive Power
Executive Branch Legal Process and the Self-Pardon
Bob Bauer, Jack Goldsmith Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 3:08 PM
Trump could consult the Office of Legal Counsel, the White House Counsel, personal attorneys—or no one at all.
White House Counsel
The White House Counsel and Trump’s Attack on the 2020 Election
Bob Bauer Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 1:28 PM
If the president is bent on exploring unconstitutional paths and deploying mendacious, grossly irresponsible rhetoric, it seems entirely inadequate for Cipollone to simply express his objections in private and hope for the best.
Executive Power
Why We Wrote ‘After Trump’
Bob Bauer, Jack Goldsmith Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 9:01 AM
Donald Trump operated the presidency in ways that reveal its vulnerability to dangerous excesses of authority and dangerous weaknesses in accountability. “After Trump” explains what should be done to mend the presidency after Trump leaves the scene.