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Impeachable Speech, Katherine Shaw
Impeachable Speech, Katherine Shaw
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Rhetoric is both an important source of presidential power and a key tool of presidential governance. For at least a century, the bully pulpit has amplified presidential power and authority, with significant consequences for the separation of powers and the constitutional order more broadly. Although the power of presidential rhetoric is a familiar feature of the contemporary legal and political landscape, far less understood are the constraints upon presidential rhetoric that exist within our system. Impeachment, of course, is one of the most important constitutional constraints on the president. And so, in the wake of the fourth major presidential impeachment …
Speech, Intent, And The President, Katherine Shaw
Speech, Intent, And The President, Katherine Shaw
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Judicial inquiries into official intent are a familiar feature of the legal landscape. Across various bodies of constitutional and public law — from equal protection and due process to the first amendment’s free exercise and establishment clauses, from the eighth amendment to the dormant commerce clause, and in statutory interpretation and administrative law cases across a range of domains — assessments of the intent of government actors are ubiquitous in our law. But whose intent matters to courts evaluating the meaning or lawfulness of government action? When it comes to statutes, forests have been felled debating the place of legislative …