Investigating The President

Author : Douglas L. Kriner,Eric Schickler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691171869

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Investigating the President by Douglas L. Kriner,Eric Schickler Pdf

Although congressional investigations have provided some of the most dramatic moments in American political history, they have often been dismissed as mere political theater. But these investigations are far more than grandstanding. Investigating the President shows that congressional investigations are a powerful tool for members of Congress to counter presidential aggrandizement. By shining a light on alleged executive wrongdoing, investigations can exert significant pressure on the president and materially affect policy outcomes. Douglas Kriner and Eric Schickler construct the most comprehensive overview of congressional investigative oversight to date, analyzing nearly thirteen thousand days of hearings, spanning more than a century, from 1898 through 2014. The authors examine the forces driving investigative power over time and across chambers, identify how hearings might influence the president's strategic calculations through the erosion of the president’s public approval rating, and uncover the pathways through which investigations have shaped public policy. Put simply, by bringing significant political pressure to bear on the president, investigations often afford Congress a blunt, but effective check on presidential power—without the need to worry about veto threats or other hurdles such as Senate filibusters. In an era of intense partisan polarization and institutional dysfunction, Investigating the President delves into the dynamics of congressional investigations and how Congress leverages this tool to counterbalance presidential power.

Author : The House Intelligence Committee
Publisher : Crown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780593237557

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The Impeachment Report by The House Intelligence Committee Pdf

The official report from the House Intelligence Committee on Donald Trump’s secret pressure campaign against Ukraine, featuring an exclusive introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and biographer Jon Meacham For only the fourth time in American history, the House of Representatives has conducted an impeachment inquiry into a sitting United States president. This landmark document details the findings of the House Intelligence Committee’s historic investigation of whether President Donald J. Trump committed impeachable offenses when he sought to have Ukraine announce investigations of former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Penetrating a dense web of connected activity by the president, his ambassador Gordon Sondland, his personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani, and many others, these pages offer a damning, blow-by-blow account of the president’s attempts to “use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election” and his subsequent attempts to obstruct the House investigation into his actions. Published here with an introduction offering critical context from bestselling presidential historian Jon Meacham, The Impeachment Report is necessary reading for every American concerned about the fate of our democracy.

Author : Douglas L. Kriner,Eric Schickler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691171852

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Investigating the President by Douglas L. Kriner,Eric Schickler Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction -- CHAPTER 2: When Congress Investigates -- CHAPTER 3: Investigations and Public Opinion -- CHAPTER 4: The Direct Influence of Congressional Investigations on Policy Outcomes -- CHAPTER 5: The Indirect Influence of Congressional Investigations on Policy Outcomes -- CHAPTER 6: Investigations in the Age of Obama -- CHAPTER 7: Conclusion -- References -- Index

Author : Richard A. Posner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674042322

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An Affair of State by Richard A. Posner Pdf

President Bill Clinton’s year of crisis, which began when his affair with Monica Lewinsky hit the front pages in January 1998, engendered a host of important questions of criminal and constitutional law, public and private morality, and political and cultural conflict. In a book written while the events of the year were unfolding, Richard Posner presents a balanced and scholarly understanding of the crisis that also has the freshness and immediacy of journalism. Posner clarifies the issues and eliminates misunderstandings concerning facts and the law that were relevant to the investigation by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and to the impeachment proceeding itself. He explains the legal definitions of obstruction of justice and perjury, which even many lawyers are unfamiliar with. He carefully assesses the conduct of Starr and his prosecutors, including their contacts with the lawyers for Paula Jones and their hardball tactics with Monica Lewinsky and her mother. He compares and contrasts the Clinton affair with Watergate, Iran–Contra, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, exploring the subtle relationship between public and private morality. And he examines the place of impeachment in the American constitutional scheme, the pros and cons of impeaching President Clinton, and the major procedural issues raised by both the impeachment in the House and the trial in the Senate. This book, reflecting the breadth of Posner’s experience and expertise, will be the essential foundation for anyone who wants to understand President Clinton’s impeachment ordeal.

Author : United States. Warren Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : KENNEDY, JOHN F. (JOHN FITZGERALD), 1917-1963
ISBN : LCCN:64065560

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Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission Pdf

Author : United States Congress House Select C
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0343204355

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Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States Congress House Select C Pdf

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Author : Jeffrey Toobin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781473583498

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True Crimes and Misdemeanors by Jeffrey Toobin Pdf

What happens when the President of the United States engages in criminal activity? He runs for re-election. Donald Trump's campaign chairman went to jail. So did his personal lawyer. His long-time political consigliere was convicted of serious federal crimes, and his National Security Advisor pleaded guilty to several more. Multiple Russian spies were indicted in absentia. Career intelligence agents and military officers were alarmed enough by his actions as President that they alerted senior government officials and ignited the impeachment process. Yet despite all this, a years-long inquiry led by Robert Mueller, and the third Presidential impeachment trial in American history, Donald Trump survived to run for presidency again. Why? Jeffrey Toobin's highly entertaining, definitive account of the Mueller investigation and the impeachment of the President takes readers behind the scenes of the epic legal and political struggle to call Trump to account for his misdeeds. Toobin recounts the mind-boggling twists and turns in the case – Trump's son met with a Russian operative promising Kremlin support; Trump paid a porn star $130,000 to hush up an affair; Rudy Giuliani and a pair of shady Ukrainian-American businessmen got the Justice Department to look at Russian-created conspiracy theories. Toobin shows how Trump's canny lawyers used Mueller's famous integrity against him, and how Trump's bullying and bluster cowed Republican legislators into ignoring the clear evidence of the impeachment hearings. Based on dozens of interviews with prosecutors in Mueller's office, Trump's legal team, Congressional investigators, White House staffers, and several of the key players, including some who are now in prison, True Crimes and Misdemeanours is a revelatory narrative that makes sense of the seemingly endless chaos of the Trump years. Filled with never-before-reported details of the high-stakes legal battles and political machinations, the book weaves a tale of a rogue President guilty of historic misconduct, and how he got away with it.

Author : United States Congress House Select C
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1298522773

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Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States Congress House Select C Pdf

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Author : Andrew Weissmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593138571

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Where Law Ends by Andrew Weissmann Pdf

"In the first and only inside account of the Mueller investigation, one of the special counsel's most trusted prosecutors breaks his silence on the team's history-making search for the truth, their painstaking deliberations and costly mistakes, and Trump's unprecedented efforts to stifle their report." -- Amazon.com.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Assassinations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Assassination
ISBN : UOM:39015011542258

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Final Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Assassinations Pdf

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : UCR:31210024928945

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Inspector General Reform Act of 2008 by United States Pdf

Author : Paul C. Light
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815722694

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Government by Investigation by Paul C. Light Pdf

Paul C. Light examines and evaluates the 100 most significant investigations of policy failures, bureaucratic mistakes, and personal misconduct undertaken by the U.S. federal government between 1945 and 2012. Launched by Congress or the president, sometimes by both at the same time, the investigations at the core of this book were driven by the search for answers about significant breakdowns in government performance. Light reveals which investigations were most effective, and why.

Author : Peter Strzok
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780358237068

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Compromised by Peter Strzok Pdf

The FBI veteran behind the Russia investigation draws on decades of experience hunting foreign agents in the United States to lay bare the threat posed by President Trump.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781982109271

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bob Bauer,Jack Goldsmith
Publisher : Lawfare Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Executive power
ISBN : 1735480614

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After Trump by Bob Bauer,Jack Goldsmith Pdf

In After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency, Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith provide a comprehensive roadmap for reform of the presidency in the post-Trump era. In fourteen chapters they offer more than fifty concrete proposals concerning presidential conflicts of interest, foreign influence on elections, pardon power abuse, assaults on the press, law enforcement independence, Special Counsel procedures, FBI investigations of presidents and presidential campaigns, the role of the White House Counsel, war powers, control of nuclear weapons, executive branch vacancies, domestic emergency powers, how one administration should examine possible crimes by the president of a prior administration, and more. Each set of reform proposals is preceded by rich descriptions of relevant presidential history, and relevant background law and norms, that place the proposed reforms in context. All of the proposals are prefaced by a chapter that explains how Trump--and, in some cases, his predecessors--conducted the presidency in ways that justify these reforms. After Trump will thus be essential reading for the coming debate on how to reconstruct the laws and norms that constitute and govern the world's most powerful office. It's hard to imagine two better co-authors for the task. Both served in senior executive branch positions-in the administrations of Barack Obama and George W. Bush, respectively-and have written widely on the presidency. Bob Bauer served from 2010-2011 as White House Counsel to President Barack Obama, who in 2013 named Bauer to be Co-Chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. He is a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law, as well as the co-director of its Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic. Jack Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel from 2003-2004, and Special Counsel to the Department of Defense from 2002-2003. He is the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School, co-founder of Lawfare, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Together, in this book, they set the terms for the national discussion to come about the presidency, its powers, and its limits.