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1 month ago | 
executivefunctions.substack.com | Bob Bauer
Please click here to opt in to receive via email our Roundup of news and commentary, and click here to view our occasional short video series on executive power. Confronted with presidential action that threatened its business, Paul Weiss cut a deal with the Trump administration on terms sufficiently attractive to President Trump that he granted the requested relief and rescinded the executive order (EO) targeting the firm. This resolution only partially restored the status quo.
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1 month ago | 
executivefunctions.substack.com | Bob Bauer
Please click here to opt in to receive via email our Morning Roundup—brief daily summaries of news developments and commentary related to executive power. Note: For almost 40 years, with limited interruptions for government service, I was a member of the Perkins Coie law firm.
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1 month ago | 
timesnewspapers.com | Bob Bauer
I could not disagree more with the Feb. 21 Mailbag letter telling us we should move on from the Jan. 6 insurrection. There are major events in history and in life that you cannot simply dismiss out of hand. Would you dismiss Sept. 11? The Twin Towers have been replaced, everyone is buried, time to move on using that letter writer’s criteria. The Jan. 6 insurrection is another point in history that should never be forgotten.
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1 month ago | 
theatlantic.com | Bob Bauer
As President Donald Trump proceeds with his seemingly endless attacks on laws and democratic norms, the question for many has become: What will turn the tide? They may imagine that conditions are ripe for a major scandal—some transgression, previously hidden but then revealed, that is so outrageous, so beyond the pale, that it will rally even those across the political divide. In the past, that is the work that scandal often did.
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2 months ago | 
aei.org | Bob Bauer
A good deal of excellent commentary has focused on the clash between Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove and Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon over Bove’s instruction to dismiss the prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
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2 months ago | 
aei.org | Bob Bauer
Why do so many of President Trump’s multitudinous executive orders fly in the face of extant legal principles? Are they the result of incompetence? Is the administration laying the groundwork for test cases in an effort to expand executive power in the Supreme Court? Below we assess a third possibility: the administration doesn’t care about compliance with current law, might not care about what the Supreme Court thinks either, and is seeking to effectuate radical constitutional change.
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2 months ago | 
executivefunctions.substack.com | Bob Bauer
President Trump’s new meme crypto token has dropped from its pre-inaugural highs and in recent days has been valued at only $ 29 billion, a fall of 60 per cent from its peak. Eighty percent (80%) of the tokens are owned by CIC Digital LLC, an affiliate of The Trump Organization (the holding company for the Trump business empire), and Fight Fight Fight LLC, which is co-owned by CIC Digital.
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2 months ago | 
executivefunctions.substack.com | Bob Bauer
President Trump’s new meme crypto token has dropped from its pre-inaugural highs and in recent days has been valued at only $ 29 billion, a fall of 60 per cent from its peak. Eighty percent (80%) of the tokens are owned by CIC Digital LLC, an affiliate of The Trump Organization (the holding company for the Trump business empire), and Fight Fight Fight LLC, which is co-owned by CIC Digital.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
rsn.org | Bob Bauer
On the loyalty of lawyers and the attitude of votersWhat follows are two sets of reflections on the rule of law at the dawn of Trump 2.0. One is a distillation of an article I have written for The Atlantic on President-elect Donald Trump’s nominations of his personal legal team to the most senior positions in the Department of Justice and what this choice raises for the coming confirmation process.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Bob Bauer
Editor's note: This piece is cross-posted with "Executive Functions."What follows are two sets of reflections on the rule of law at the dawn of Trump 2.0. One is a distillation of an article I have written for The Atlanticon President-elect Donald Trump’s nominations of his personal legal team to the most senior positions in the Department of Justice and what this choice raises for the coming confirmation process.
