David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for CNN about Bob Woodward’s new book discussing President Trump’s foreign policy. According to an excerpt in Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear,” published in the Washington Post, at a National Security Council meeting on January 19, 2017, when Trump was told about the special intelligence operation that allowed the US to detect a North Korean missile launch in seven seconds, Woodward reported that Trump asked why the government was spending any resources on this region at all. “We’re doing this in order to…
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Professor Corey Brettschneider wrote an op-ed in Politico regarding Brett Kavanaugh’s views of presidential power. Kavanaugh seems to hold dangerous views about executive power, views that could undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry, ultimately shielding Trump from a criminal investigation. Indeed, Kavanaugh’s writing suggests that, as a justice, he might reject important Supreme Court case law and support the president’s right to refuse to turn over evidence to Mueller’s team. He might also hold that a president can refuse to answer questions in a criminal investigation. In other words, if Kavanaugh is appointed, Trump could have newly found constitutional privileges…
Professor Andrew Kent was quoted in a Washington Post article about the likelihood of President Trump blocking much of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. [T]he White House could try to override the regulations and stop the report’s release to Congress — or at least part of it — by claiming executive privilege covers certain information in it. Kent says most of the information in the report probably would not plausibly be covered by any such claim, but that Trump might try to assert that much of it is, anyway. “The White House could make to Rosenstein absurdly broad claims of…
Adjunct Professor Matt Gold was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about the U.S.-Canada trade feud over the international dairy market. Canada has internally debated the merits of its own supply management program for years. It made concessions to open up its dairy market in other recently negotiated trade pacts. Most notably, in the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal involving Pacific Rim countries, Canada agreed to increase foreign access to its market in the amount of 3.25% of its annual milk production. Mr. Trump, however, pulled the U.S. out of that deal, irking Canadians. “They got their backs up,” said Matt…