reconstructing the presidency Bauer, Bob (Robert F.) 1952- creator Goldsmith, Jack L. (Jack Landman) III 1962- text dcu Washington, DC Lawfare Press 2020 monographic eng

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xi, 422 pages ; 23 cm In this book, Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith provide a comprehensive roadmap for reform of the presidency in the post-Trump era. In fourteen chapters they offer more than fifty concrete proposals concerning presidential conflicts of interest, foreign influence on elections, pardon power abuse, assaults on the press, law enforcement independence, Special Counsel procedures, FBI investigations of presidents and presidential campaigns, the role of the White House Counsel, war powers, control of nuclear weapons, executive branch vacancies, domestic emergency powers, how one administration should examine possible crimes by the president of a prior administration, and more Reconstructing the presidency Part I, The President. Foreign state influence ; Financial conflicts of interest ; Tax disclosure ; The press ; The pardon power Part II, President-Justice Department relations. Justice Department independence ; The Special Counsel ; The bureaucracy against the President ; Investigating past administrations ; The White House Counsel Part III: The President and Congress. War powers and nuclear weapons ; Vacancies reform ; Other reforms Conclusion Appendix A. Summaries of reform proposals Appendix B. Texts of selected proposed reforms Bob Bauer and Jack L. Goldsmith. Poder ejecutivo Estados Unidos Historia Siglo XXI Presidentes Estados Unidos Historia Siglo XXI Separación de poderes Estados Unidos Historia Siglo XXI Estados Unidos Política y gobierno 2017-2021 JK 511 B344a 2020 9781735480619 1735480614 260722 20260728112448.0 eng