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Prosecuting Executive Branch Wrongdoing, Julian A. Cook, Iii
Prosecuting Executive Branch Wrongdoing, Julian A. Cook, Iii
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Attorney General William Barr’s handling of Robert Mueller’s Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election was undeniably controversial and raised meaningful questions regarding the impartiality of the Department of Justice. Yet, Barr’s conduct, which occurred at the conclusion of the Mueller investigation, was merely the caboose at the end of a series of controversies that were coupled together from the outset of the investigation. Ensnarled in dissonance from its inception, the Mueller investigation was dogged by controversies that ultimately compromised its legitimacy.
Public trust of criminal investigations of executive branch wrongdoing requires prosecutorial independence. To …
Government Ethics In The Age Of Trump, Adam Raviv
Government Ethics In The Age Of Trump, Adam Raviv
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Americans’ trust in government officials has never been lower. Despite the intense public focus on ethics in government in recent years, legal scholarship on the subject has been sparse. This Article fills the gap by examining the ethics regime of the federal executive branch in depth, with a discussion of both the applicable ethics standards and the agencies and offices that are charged with ensuring that government officials comply with those standards. The Article describes how the current system heavily emphasizes prevention, education, and highly detailed disclosures while it rarely enforces the law against wrongdoers. A federal official in the …
Mdl As Public Administration, David L. Noll
Mdl As Public Administration, David L. Noll
Michigan Law Review
From the Deepwater Horizon disaster to the opioid crisis, multidistrict litigation—or simply MDL—has become the preeminent forum for devising solutions to the most difficult problems in the federal courts. MDL works by refusing to follow a regular procedural playbook. Its solutions are case specific, evolving, and ad hoc. This very flexibility, however, provokes charges that MDL violates basic requirements of the rule of law.
At the heart of these charges is the assumption that MDL is simply a larger version of the litigation that takes place every day in federal district courts. But MDL is not just different in scale …
The Conditions Of Discretion: Autonomy, Community, Bureaucracy, Steven F. Cherry
The Conditions Of Discretion: Autonomy, Community, Bureaucracy, Steven F. Cherry
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Conditions of Discretion: Autonomy, Community, Bureaucracy/em by Joel F. Handler
Industry Influence In Federal Regulatory Agencies, Michigan Law Review
Industry Influence In Federal Regulatory Agencies, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Industry Influence in Federal Regulatory Agencies by Paul J. Quirk
Congressional Control Of Agency Privilege, Mark A. Luscombe
Congressional Control Of Agency Privilege, Mark A. Luscombe
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This note seeks to provide an introductory and largely historical analysis of "agency privilege:" the refusal of federal executive officials to furnish information and documents to congressional bodies absent the invocation of a claim of privilege by the President. After a brief survey of the origins of agency privilege in part I, the history and nature of the competing interests of congressional investigations and autonomy of executive departments and agencies will be discussed in part II. Part III explores the constitutional basis of the claim and analyzes other justifications proffered in specific circumstances. Part IV weighs the merits of various …
Culp: Discretionary Justice: A Preliminary Inquiry, Albert J. Reiss Jr.
Culp: Discretionary Justice: A Preliminary Inquiry, Albert J. Reiss Jr.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Discretionary Justice: A Preliminary Inquiry by Kenneth Culp Davis