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Jack Goldsmith
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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

Political science 42%
Economics 24%

My quick take on the legality of the Venezuela invasion.

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On the Legality of the Venezuela Invasion
Executive branch precedents can be garnered to support the action—which does not, of course, mean that it is lawful.
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May have sent bad link earlier on my discussion with Chris Mirasola about the president's protective power and its relevance to Trump's domestic military deployments--a potentially big issue going forward. Now fixed.

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The President's Protective Power
The relevance and limits of the Article II doctrine in domestic military deployments after Trump v. Illinois
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My discussion with Chris Mirasola about the president's protective power and its relevance to Trump's domestic military deployments--a potentially big issue going forward.

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Chris's great article on this: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The President's Protective Power
The relevance and limits of the Article II doctrine in domestic military deployments after Trump v. Illinois
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My thoughts on the Interim Order in Trump v. Illinois open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
Thoughts on the Interim Order in Trump v. Illinois
The administration loses but still has options for domestic military deployment
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Re-upping my take from a year ago on Trump and Greenland: "Trump has a habit of making the unthinkable thinkable. But he faces complex legal and political hurdles to making the thinkable a reality."
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The Danish West Indies Precedent for U.S. Acquisition of Greenland
There is lots of law between Donald Trump and the acquisition of Greenland
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