Jack Goldsmith
@jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social
Prof Harvard Law School, Co-founder of Lawfare, Non-res. sr. fellow at AEI; executivefunctions.substack. Opinions mine alone. Likes ≠ agree; = save to read. https://jackgoldsmith.org/
Jack Landman Goldsmith III is an American legal scholar. He serves as the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has written extensively in the fields of international law, civil procedure, federal courts, conflict of laws, and national security law. Writing in The New York Times, Jeffrey Rosen described him as being "widely considered one of the brightest stars in the conservative legal firmament". .. more
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Opinion | Why It Will Be Hard for Five Justices to Bless Trump’s Tariffs
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My take on the tariffs oral argument. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
The Venezuela Boat Strikes and the Justice Department’s Golden Shield
How the Office of Legal Counsel Helps the White House in its Summary Killings
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My take on the significance of the classified OLC opinion for the Venezuela boat strikes.
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Decision-making Disarray at the DOJ
Blanche, Bondi, Halligan, Martin—and a White House in charge
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Bob Bauer and I discuss internal rifts at DOJ, the loyalty pressures shaping the Trump administration, and whether constitutional reform is needed to curb the spiral of politicized prosecutions.
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