This essay defends the possibility of preemptive forgiving, that is, forgiving before the
offending action has taken place. This essay argues that our moral practices and emotions …

There are those who have been quite desperate to truncate Donald Trump's tenure as
President. Even before he was officially elected, Democratic activists lobbied the …

In 1987, EL Doctorow celebrated the Constitution's bicentennial by reading it." It is five
thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand," he said. Distinguished legal scholar …

As with so many aspects of the vice presidency, questions involving incapacity in the office
have been largely neglected by scholars. While discussion of historical episodes involving …

Scholars continue to debate whether Lockean prerogative is better understood as operating
within the constitutional framework, as constitutionalists would argue, or outside of it, as the …

Abstract President Donald J. Trump commuted four prison sentences and pardoned seven
offenders in the first half of his first term in office. He often justified his decision to grant mercy …

Presidential impeachments are vanishingly rare in American constitutional history: in the
230 years since ratification, only three presidents have faced serious attempts to remove …

'You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is that it is an
opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.'1 Those were the words …

This paper is a study the use of various forms of informal executive actions used by
presidents and cabinet officials to guide the policy implementation of federal agencies …

Long recognized as the most sweeping and least checked power vested in the Chief
Executive, the pardon power received renewed scholarly attention with the federal …