Cybersecurity and Deterrence
The Puzzle of the GRU Indictment
Jack Goldsmith Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 11:12 AM
Why does the Justice Department laud indictments that communicate weakness?
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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Executive Power
How to Respond to the Trump Tax Disclosures
Jack Goldsmith Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 4:32 PM
The nation should never again rely on norms to ensure that presidents disclose their finances fully or to guard against conflicts of interest between public duties and private gain.
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.
Campaign 2016
The Senate Russia Report and the Imperative of Legal Reform
Bob Bauer, Jack Goldsmith Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 1:52 PM
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report calls on political campaigns to build protections against becoming channels for illicit foreign state influence. But lawmakers should also consider reforming the law.
Executive Power
The House Moves to Regulate Pardon Power Abuse
Bob Bauer, Jack Goldsmith Thu, Jul 23, 2020, 4:30 PM
Two new bills that aim to regulate abuse of the pardon power make plain that that power is not “absolute.”
pardons
Trump’s Aberrant Pardons and Commutations
Jack Goldsmith, Matt Gluck Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 8:32 AM
The Stone commutation fits a pattern of abuse: Almost all of the beneficiaries of Trump’s pardons and commutations have had a personal or political connection to the president.
Federal Law Enforcement
The Durham Investigation: What We Know and What It Means
Jack Goldsmith, Nathaniel Sobel Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 9:58 AM
The investigation as it developed should not have been conducted by a federal prosecutor, and Attorney General Barr’s public commentary has seriously (and somewhat mysteriously) damaged the credibility of whatever Durham uncovers.