Donald Trump
Prosecuting Trump: A Reply to Josh Marshall
Jack Goldsmith Wed, Aug 17, 2022, 11:30 AM
Even if one focuses narrowly on the rule of law, caution is still warranted.
Jack Goldsmith is the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School, co-founder of Lawfare, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Before coming to Harvard, Professor Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel from 2003-2004, and Special Counsel to the Department of Defense from 2002-2003.
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Donald Trump
Thoughts on the Mar-a-Lago Search
Jack Goldsmith Sun, Aug 14, 2022, 9:02 AM
How to assess Attorney General Garland’s decision.
Federal Law Enforcement
Forty-Seven Years of Feckless Digging
Jack Goldsmith Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 8:01 AM
Thoughts on the Anniversary of Jimmy Hoffa’s Disappearance
Congress
Correcting Misconceptions About the Electoral Count Reform Act
Bob Bauer, Jack Goldsmith Sun, Jul 24, 2022, 4:09 PM
The new bipartisan bill is a substantial improvement over the 1887 Electoral Count Act.
2022 Ukraine Crisis
Summer 2022 Supplement for 'Bradley, Deeks, & Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials' (7th ed. 2020)
Jack Goldsmith Fri, Jul 8, 2022, 10:20 AM
The Summer 2022 Supplement for Bradley, Deeks, & Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (7th ed. 2020) is now available on Lawfare.
Electoral Count Act
Principles for Electoral Count Act Reform
Bob Bauer, Jack Goldsmith Mon, Apr 4, 2022, 10:01 AM
The group agrees that Congress should reform the ECA in time for the 2024 election, and offers both core reform principles and specific proposals for statutory revision in an effort to contribute to a constitutionally sound bipartisan consensus in Congress.
Prepublication Review
How the U.S. Government Built the Largest System of Prior Restraint in U.S. History
Jack Goldsmith, Oona Hathaway Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 10:01 AM
The limited and informal system in place at the time of Snepp metastasized into a massive system restraining the speech of millions.