Jack Goldsmith is the Henry L. Shattuck 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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Don’t expect the law or lawyers to provide avenues to constrain the President from using force in North Korea if he deems it the appropriate course.
Donald Trump is wielding a Soprano touch on American institutions. “I’m fucking King Midas in reverse here,” Tony Soprano once told his therapist. “Everything I touch turns to shit.”
Richard Danzig describes how rapid technological innovation might challenge the liberal world order.
An outline and analysis of the laws relevant to a Secretary of Defense called upon to effect a reckless order from the President.
Never has a president been so regularly ignored or contradicted by his own officials.
Donald Trump’s angry morning tweet storm brings us clearly into the territory, where we may have been for a while, of a president bent on destroying the authority of the Justice Department.
In light of CIA Director Mike Pompeo's criticism of the New York Times' publication of a CIA officer's identity, we are reposting Jack Goldsmith's 2015 interview of Times executive editor Dean Baquet on the paper's publication of sensitive information.