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Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith
Personal blog · execfunctions.orgpolitics
Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith writes Executive Functions, a personal blog at execfunctions.org about politics. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this Bauer and Goldsmith blog on executive power and law. One commenter cites its commentary on the emoluments clause and needed reforms.
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Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith, two former senior government lawyers from different political backgrounds and administrations, decode the presidential power issues and controversies of the day.
What Hacker News says?
It should apply there, though the first Trump admin argued a very narrow interpretation that mostly exempts the president in the first term, at the end of which the case was declared moot (leaving us in suspense about what SCOTUS would have said). Great commentary on emoluments and needed reforms in light of this here: https://www.execfunctions.org/p/trump-20-and-the-foreign-emo...
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on “Trump pardons convicted Binance founder”Submitted The Legality of the Venezuela Invasion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYour reliance on the 1916 treaty ignores how that deal was actually reached. The treaty was finalized only after US Secretary Lansing issued a "plain spoken threat"[1] to seize the islands if Denmark refused to sell. Thus the agreement is not proof sovereignty is inviolable, but rather a precedent that the United States is willing to use coercion when it perceives an existential threat. Same as the US feared Germany…
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on “America's Long History of Trying to Acquire Greenland”