Amanda Holos-Bruski
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How an obscure legal theory shaped the immunity decision and Trump's second term
Many of the judges currently on the Roberts Court who embrace the unitary executive theory, which is a muscular understanding of a president's Article II powers, part of it. is how we understand the president's powers when it comes to war, emergency, foreign policy.
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How an obscure legal theory shaped the immunity decision and Trump's second term
The Reagan Justice Department had a deep sense that since Watergate and the post-Watergate reforms that sought to really rein in and control an imperial president, to prevent another Watergate, to prevent another president from abusing the trappings of their office, to prevent corruption in government, that the Congress that was elected after Nixon resigned, went too far.
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How an obscure legal theory shaped the immunity decision and Trump's second term
as the founders of the Federal Society were going through their coursework, they were looking for the ideas that had excited them that were becoming ascendant on a national level. So ideas like limited government, free market capitalism, anti-regulation, and those were largely absent in their conversations in law school.
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How an obscure legal theory shaped the immunity decision and Trump's second term
And so they got together and said, how do we bring these perspectives into our law schools?
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How an obscure legal theory shaped the immunity decision and Trump's second term
It's the network. It was important that the founders recognized within the law specifically, if you want to build and strengthen conservatism in the law, you needed the law schools, yes, but you also then needed folks who who were active in public interest law. You need folks who were active in positions of power within the executive branch. And finally, of course, as we know, you need the judges.