Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith on Reforming the Presidency
The Lawfare Podcast
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What Are the Reforms in the Protecting Our Democracy Act?
Bob and i wrote a piece in politico last week that went through this, and i'll just summarized it for you. We went through the protecting our democracy act, which is, again, this very large presidential reform bill. And so the question is, are pieces of this available for passage in the senate with republican support? So another example is emergency powers reform. It's something that both sides have in the past agreed on, and we think there's a chance for agreement there. The same issue arose at the end of the clinton presidency, and republicans then were outraged by it. This is an issue that shouldn't be, it shouldn't be something where there's political division
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