Divot, savage, is the 20th anniversary of bush versus gore. We ask you, since you have been , toring the Supreme Court look back at the 2000 election. What we were going through that as compared to what is happening now and also some of the lessons learned. Lets start with the court itself. Themmembers, and seven of appointed by republican president s but how did they align ideologically . It was pretty much a 54 pretty much a 54 vote. There were several moderate republicans. Souter, ruthd ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer were the four on the left. , but alsoconservative an interesting era. Justice kennedy and justice were conservatives and you could not predict them in cases. You say more about chief Justice William rehnquist and his approach to leaving the court . He had been on the court for a lot of years. He had strong, clear views. I got lunch with them every year. I found him very interesting but he could talk about all sorts of subjects. Want to talk about sports or politics, the w
Take it from there trying to field as many of your questions as possible and you can submit those questions through the event page or over twitter or facebook or youtube using the cato events. First our first guest is our author, he is the james munro distinguished professor at the university of virginia as well as a senior fellow for the study of the presidency and hes one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial powers in the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning, the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is the professor of law at harvard and someone who youre probably aware of has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile, extremely tense tenure in the Bush Administration office of Legal Counsel during an early. On the war on terror, jack is one of our most thoughtful commentators on the modern presidency in venues like the atlantic on the blog and books like the
The presidency and is one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial power and the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning that the constitution of the original executive, Jack Goldsmith is the henry l professor of law at harvard, it is someone who youre probably aware has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile, extremely tense tenure in the Bush Administration office of Legal Counsel during a key early. On the war on terror, jack is one of our thoughtful commentators on the modern presidency and then the atlantic, and books like the terror presidency and power and constraint. So it is one of the most misleadingly titled books in recent memory. It makes a convincing case the original design the framers had for the presidency that office had little in the way of Emergency Powers or independent war powers and no rightful claim to executive privilege that shielded its inner workings from
The study of the presidency and he is one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial powers and the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning, the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is the professor of law at harvard and someone who as youre probably aware has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile extremely tense tenure in the bush Administrations Office of Legal Counsel during a key early period in the war on terror. Jack is one of our most thoughtful commentators on the moderate presidency impinges like the atlantic on the law flare law, and books like the terror presidency, and power in constraint. His latest book also highly recommended is also the subject for one of the last in person Public Events we had at cato back in early march for the lockdown. So jack, thanks for coming back so soon, if only virtually. Saikrishna im also a great admirer of your previous b
Will give us the overview of the book, jack will give us some comments on the book and we will take it from there and tried to yield as many of your questions as possible and you can submit those questions through the event page or over twitter, facebook or youtube using the cato events. First our first guest is her author Saikrishna Prakash, the distinguished professor of law at the university of virginia as well as a senior fellow at uba center for the study of the presidency and is one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial powers and the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning, the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is the henry l professor of law at harvard, someone who youre probably aware has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile extremely tense ten year in the Bush Administration office of legal capital during a key early. In the work. Jack is one of ou