Ryan Goodman
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Former Special Counsel @DeptofDefense. Co-editor-in-chief @just_security. Chaired Professor NYU Law. Former Chaired Professor Harvard Law. Co-director @RCLS_NYU
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https://www.justsecurity.org/author/goodmanryan/ 12-02-2013 06:31:09
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I'm thrilled that Thomas Joscelyn is joining our Just Security team as Senior Fellow.
Tom is a truly brilliant analyst, researcher and author.
- a principal author of Select Committee January 6 report
- expert on democracy, terrorism, extremism + more
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Ryan Goodman Someone remind Gorsuch that at the Convention, when a ban on pardoning treason was proposed (because a treasonous president could pardon his co-conspirators), the winning argument was: leave the pardon power alone; if that happens you can prosecute the president.
As usual, an important point by Asha Rangappa identifying an inconsistency by some conservative Justices on applying criminal laws to a president.⤵️
Indeed, here's Kavanaugh in 14th Amendment oral arg taking a very different approach than Kavanaugh in Trump v. US oral arg:
Topic: How the Supreme Court could rule in a way that gets the January 6 trial on track in short order.
I am basically in agreement with Rick Pildes on the wisdom of his theory here.👇
cc: Marty Lederman Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 Liz Cheney Rick Pildes