Some of fdrs initiatives, such as increasing the number of Supreme Court justices. This class took place online and the university of maryland Baltimore County provided the video. Prof. Blake we are going to be talking about the first two chapters of my book manuscript today. Which looks at the role Public Opinion played during the new deal and specifically the constitutional controversy of the new deal. It is worth telling you one thing about why i am not writing this book. Court packing has gotten back in the news, both during the democratic primary season when iowa caucus winner Pete Buttigieg endorsed Court Packing. Now it is back in the news again in the general elections following the passing of justice ginsburg. I am not writing this book because Court Packing is back in the news. I have always been interested in the new deal. It is a constitutionally significant error in our industry. It never received quite as much attention as it deserved on that front. In the new deal schola
Guests, and then were going to talk a little bit, and were looking forward to having some of you ask questions as well. The reason im very excited about this book but also about our guests is its a rare thing to be good at Public Service, to be a person of action, and its also a rare thing to be a scholar and to be excellent at the study of something. And tevi troy and Kiron Skinner, both bring that to the table. Tevi was someone who worked in many places in Public Service from the congress to several departments, at the department of labor and department of hhs, but also, very importantly, at the white house which is what these books are about or this book and several of his other books. Hes also, again, an accomplished author whos written in addition to this piece on the white house about intellectuals in the white house as well as Emergency Preparedness in the white house and the use of social media by president s. So i hope you will take the time to listen but also to think about b
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