Take it from there trying to field as many of your questions as possible and you can submit those questions through the event page or over twitter or facebook or youtube using the cato events. First our first guest is our author, he is the james munro distinguished professor at the university of virginia as well as a senior fellow for the study of the presidency and hes one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial powers in the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning, the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is the professor of law at harvard and someone who youre probably aware of has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile, extremely tense tenure in the Bush Administration office of Legal Counsel during an early. On the war on terror, jack is one of our most thoughtful commentators on the modern presidency in venues like the atlantic on the blog and books like the
The study of the presidency and he is one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial powers and the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning, the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is the professor of law at harvard and someone who as youre probably aware has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile extremely tense tenure in the bush Administrations Office of Legal Counsel during a key early period in the war on terror. Jack is one of our most thoughtful commentators on the moderate presidency impinges like the atlantic on the law flare law, and books like the terror presidency, and power in constraint. His latest book also highly recommended is also the subject for one of the last in person Public Events we had at cato back in early march for the lockdown. So jack, thanks for coming back so soon, if only virtually. Saikrishna im also a great admirer of your previous b
Especially with regard to president ial powers and the author of an equally excellent previous book, imperial from the beginning the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is the henry l. Shaddock professor of law at harvard and someone who, as youre probably aware, has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile, extremely tense tenure in the bush Administrations Office of Legal Counsel during a key early period in the war on terror. Jack is one of our most thoughtful commentators on the modern presidency in venues like the atlantic and books like the terror Prime Minister city and presidency and power and constraint. His latest book is in hoffas shadow, one of the last inperson events we had at cato back in early march before the lockdown so, jack, thanks for coming back so soon if only virtually. Sai, im also a great add meurer of your admirer of your previous book, imperial from the beginning, but if youll forgive me for saying so, i think its on
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Soon. Good morning. Thank you for coming out this morning. Let me say thank you for the opportunity to have this conversation as i approach you about the importance of this issue, you were kind enough to give me the chance to move this forward and have a real conversation with america about the importance of Police Reform, accountability and transparency. Thats what the justice act focuses on and accountability and transparency, you were smart enough to put together a strong group of senators with passion about the issue with expertise in different aspects, this is a great team you put together. You have an opportunity to discuss the issue of Police Reform. Too often we have a discussion in this nation about supporting Law Enforcement community or communities of color. This is a small binary choice, answer to the question which size do you support. I support america. If you support america you support restoring the confidence communities of color have, you support america you know the