Navigating Executive Power and Senate Confirmations

Sarah Isgur and David French discuss Alina Habba’s removal as U.S. attorney pick and the one consistent position of the Trump administration: We get to do what we want.

—Scrutinizing the Vacancies Reform Act
—Friendly vs. hostile U.S. Senates
—Good luck to the criminals in the Northern District of New Jersey
—Listener question: change the vesting clause?
—Second Circuit issues decision on remand for Nat’l Rifle Ass’n of Am. v. Vullo.
—If you're going to charge a conspiracy, there better be a conspiracy
—Critical race theory curriculum
—Poisonous fruit of the Garcetti tree
—Who has rights over blood spots?

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