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Executive Power
409 published works
PrawfsBlawg
Frederick Douglass on the President As an “Officer of the United States”
Main Monday, January 08, 2024Frederick Douglass on the President As an "Officer of the United States"From a speech delivered in March 1860: I hold that the right to suppress an…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: The President’s Fourth Branch? by Bijal Shah
Calling all immprofs who live at the intersection of administrative law and immigration. You've got to check out The President's Fourth Branch? by Bijal Shah (Boston College), 92 Fordham Law…
PrawfsBlawg
Appropriations and Youngstown
Main Friday, August 11, 2023Appropriations and YoungstownThe standard story of Youngstown goes something like this. President Truman ordered the seizure of the steel mills. The steel firms sued. They won…
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Pharaoh’s Dreams
Main Thursday, June 15, 2023Pharaoh's DreamsOne of the most famous lines in Justice Jackson's Youngstown concurrence is: 'Just what our forefathers did envision, or would have envisioned had they foreseen…
PrawfsBlawg
The Debt Limit in Baseline Hell
Main Sunday, May 28, 2023The Debt Limit in Baseline HellAs both of my regular readers know (hi mom!), I am a connoisseur of what I call “baseline hell.” “Baseline hell”…
PrawfsBlawg
Justice Jackson on the Vesting Clause
Main Friday, May 12, 2023Justice Jackson on the Vesting ClauseOne criticism of Justice Jackson's concurrence in Youngstown is that he misread the Vesting Clause of Article II. The opinion says…
The Right Coast
The Deep State Is All Too Real – WSJ
There are two competing conceptions of American governance: the version students are taught in the classroom, and the one that exists in the real world. Grade-school civics teaches that Washington…
PrawfsBlawg
Laurence Tribe is (sort-of) Wrong
Main Sunday, May 07, 2023Laurence Tribe is (sort-of) WrongProfessor Tribe has an op-ed in today's New York Times stating that he's changed his mind about the propriety of a president…
The Right Coast
The RESTRICT Act Gives Up Nearly All Notions of Checks and Balances
To address our nation s hysteria over dance videos, more than twenty Senators, both Republican and Democrat, support the RESTRICT Act. They tell us that this bill will help rein…
PrawfsBlawg
The Myth of Justice Jackson’s Turnabout in Youngstown
Main Friday, April 14, 2023The Myth of Justice Jackson's Turnabout in YoungstownI've resumed work on my Youngstown book. One issue that I'm thinking through is a common misperception about what…