Executive Watch
"Dedicated to monitoring, analyzing, and providing a forum for discussion of questions of presidential power."
Author: Curtis Bradley, Christopher H. Schroeder, Neil Siegel and Guy-Uriel Charles are law professors at Duke University, and Julian Yap is the Public Law Fellow at Duke University School of Law; Neil Kinkopf is a law professor at Georgia State University; Peter Shane is a law professor at Ohio State University; Peter Strauss is a law professor at Columbia University; Cynthia Farina is a law professor at Cornell University; Bill Marshall is a law professor at the University of North Carolina.
Blawg Related Categories: Executive Branch • Government Law • Columbia University • Cornell Law School • Duke University • Georgia State University • The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law • University of North Carolina • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Executive Watch
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Weekly Web Watch 11/9/09 – 11/15/09
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, will face trial in a civilian court in New York. Glenn Greenwald laments that only some detainees will be selected for prosecution. James Joyner fails to…
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Weekly Web Watch 11/2/09 – 11/8/09
The White House will ask Congress for supplemental war funding, continuing a practice that the Bush administration used to break up the full cost of the war. Furthermore, McClatchy reports that the White House is…
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Weekly Web Watch 10/26/09 – 11/1/09
Abdullah Abdullah withdrew from the run-off election against President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rushed to assure everyone that this would not affect the vote’s legitimacy. Meanwhile, the New York Times…
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Obscure Cases and Important Principles: Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB
I am currently participating in on online debate under the auspices of the Federalist Society regarding a case hardly anyone has heard of that is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. The case is called…
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Executive Action Report: 10/14/2009 – 10/20/2009
Wednesday, October 14 President Obama signed an executive order reestablishing the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The panel was established by President Clinton, but President Bush did not renew its mandate…
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Weekly Web Watch 10/12/09 – 10/18/09
Shepard Fairey has admitted that he lied about which photo he used to make his “Hope” poster of then-candidate Barack Obama. Both photographs in question were taken by the same photographer and both were covered…
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Weekly Web Watch 10/5/09 – 10/11/09
This happened. Michael Russnow, a general Obama supporter, is irritated by the “cheapening” of the award. Jonathan Adler argues that this event is not terribly extraordinary; the Prize has often been awarded to people prospectively. …
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Obama’s Peace Prize: The World Bets on American Leadership
It’s a safe bet that President Obama’s first words this morning were something akin to, “I won what??” This is, after all, the man who conceded that Arizona State had a point in thinking an…
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Executive Action Report: 09/30/2009-10/06/2009
Wednesday, September 30 The President declared that a state of disaster exists in several counties in Kansas. The declaration allows state and local agencies to access federal funding in their efforts to repair the damage…
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Weekly Web Watch 09/28/09 – 10/4/09
Analysis of President Obama’s speech to the United Nations continues. Kenneth Anderson has one of the most well-developed critiques, arguing that the administration is more concerned with multilateralism than with peace. Meanwhile, Sen. Richard Lugar…