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Executive Power
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PrawfsBlawg
Procedural puzzles and Trumpian abuses
Main Monday, March 17, 2025Procedural puzzles and Trumpian abusesSome links and brief comments as litigation swirls around the Trump Administration's various abuses of power.1) Sam Bray on DOJ's too-clever-by-half insistence…
PrawfsBlawg
The Trump Regime Continues its Retrospective Celebration of 1798
Main Thursday, March 13, 2025The Trump Regime Continues its Retrospective Celebration of 1798I'm working on a longer post, but may I just note the news that the Trump regime is…
Legal Theory Blog
Lindley, Jones, & Smith on the Independence Hypothesis and Presidential Removal Power
Tyler B. Lindley (Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School), Cree Jones (BYU Law School), & Thomas Smith have posted Testing the Independence Hypothesis (77 Administrative Law Review…
Criminal
Not long after appointment of “pardon czar,” Trump Administration fires Justice Department’s Pardon Attorney
In a couple of recent posts (here and here) since Prez Trump's announcement that Alice Marie Johnson will serve as his "pardon czar"(see prior posts here and here), I have wondered aloud…
ContractsProf Blog
District Court Finds White House Cannot Fire Independent Counsel by Executive Order
On Saturday, we posted a brief note that a District Court in California found that the Federal Office of Personnel Management had no authority to fire federal workers in other…
Legal Theory Blog
Shugerman on Ratification-Era Sources & the Unitary Executive Theory
Jed H. Shugerman (Boston University - School of Law) has posted The Misuse of Ratification-Era Sources by Unitary Executive Theorists on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The unitary executive theory…
Legal Theory Blog
Bamzai & Prakash on the Removal Power
Aditya Bamzai (University of Virginia School of Law) & Saikrishna Prakash (University of Virginia School of Law) have posted The Executive Power of Removal (136 Harvard Law Review 1756 (2023))…
Legal Theory Blog
Selin & Mattioli on Political Appointment and U.S.. Attorneys
Jennifer Selin (Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law) & Lauren Mattioli (Boston University - Department of Political Science) have posted Independent Justice? U.S. Attorneys as…
Legal Theory Blog
Rosenblum & Hills on Presidential Administration after United States v. Arthrex
Noah A. Rosenblum (New York University School of Law) & Roderick M. Hills, Jr. (New York University School of Law) have posted Presidential Administration After Arthrex on SSRN. Here is…
Legal Profession Blog
New York Ethics Act Constitutional
The New York Court of AppealsThe issue on this appeal is whether, on its face, the Ethics Commission Reform Act of 2022 unconstitutionally vests the State Commission on Ethics and…