Presidential Powers

“I testified at Barr's Senate confirmation hearing. I urged the Senate to reject the nomination. … I am not saying here that I told you so. Rather, my warning was insufficiently…

"The administration’s positions amount to a fundamental revision of existing legal foundations for military action against Iran that can be undertaken by this and future presidents."

Key Legal Questions, With Preview of a New Research Database

"What this standoff also reveals is a deeper threat to our constitutional system, and a pathway forward for legislators to guard against abuses by this and future presidents."

In a recent piece in the Washington Post, Professor Mary Dudziak drew attention to the Executive Branch’s continued reliance upon President Truman’s police action on the Korean…

Analysts and scholars have long wondered what it would look like if Congress reasserted itself in foreign affairs.  It’s a role that Just Security Founding Editor (and my former…

The White House chief of staff position is again in transition. It is the top staff job in government — a momentous position that merits a broad look at its roles and responsibilities.…

"It’s not hard to summarize Barr’s views because they're so shockingly categorical and so extreme."

Though the Senate vote on cessation of military assistance for the Saudi War in Yemen will have no practical effect – the House of Representatives will not take up the matter…

Now that the Democrats have won control of the House of Representatives, there will be a flood of congressional investigations of waste, fraud, and abuse within the Trump administration,…

Why the U.S. military and national security are poorly served by Kavanaugh's support for extreme Presidential Powers.

"It’s time to focus on where the real threat to Mueller’s report reaching the public may arise. The assertion of executive privilege is not it."