New Books Criticize Expanded Executive Power
Two new books in the news this week have criticized the expansion of Executive Power under the Bush Administration.
Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith, the former head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) under President Bush, discussed his new book, The Terror Presidency, with The New York Times. He said, "I don’t know if President Bush understood how extreme some of the arguments were about executive power that some people in his administration were making.”
Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage also released a new book, Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidential and the Subversion of American Democracy, which The San Francisco Chronicle has characterized as "A masterful work of investigative journalism . . . [that] deserves to be remembered as one of the key texts of the Bush years." Savage recently won a Pulitzer prize for his reporting on presidential signing statements.
Earlier this week, ACS released the first comprehensive index of presidential signing statements issued between 2001 and 2007. It was compiled by Professor Neil Kinkopf, author of a prior ACS Issue Brief on Signing Statements and the President's Authority to Refuse to Enforce the Law, released last year.
Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith, the former head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) under President Bush, discussed his new book, The Terror Presidency, with The New York Times. He said, "I don’t know if President Bush understood how extreme some of the arguments were about executive power that some people in his administration were making.”
Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage also released a new book, Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidential and the Subversion of American Democracy, which The San Francisco Chronicle has characterized as "A masterful work of investigative journalism . . . [that] deserves to be remembered as one of the key texts of the Bush years." Savage recently won a Pulitzer prize for his reporting on presidential signing statements.
Earlier this week, ACS released the first comprehensive index of presidential signing statements issued between 2001 and 2007. It was compiled by Professor Neil Kinkopf, author of a prior ACS Issue Brief on Signing Statements and the President's Authority to Refuse to Enforce the Law, released last year.
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