Bob Bauer

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Mar 24, 2025 | 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the Trump administration on terms sufficiently attractive to President Trump that he granted the requested relief and rescinded the executive order (EO) targeting the firm.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.

Mar 17, 2025 | 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.

Mar 17, 2025 | 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.

Mar 13, 2025 | 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.