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Executive Functions Chat

Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith
Trump Administration
Supreme Court
Donald Trump
Congress
Insurrection Act
Department Of Justice
National Guard
Artificial Intelligence
Habeas Corpus
Universal Injunctions
Executive Power
Iran
Executive Authority
Protective Power
Birthright Citizenship
Executive Orders
Paul Weiss
Law Firms
President Trump
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Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith discuss news about the presidency. www.execfunctions.org

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As the 2026 midterms approach, Jack and Bob give a big-picture overview of the Trump administration’s efforts to use federal law enforcement and executive power to influence the congressional elections. They discuss the constitutional limits on presi... more

Jack speaks with University of Virginia School of Law Professor Saikrishna Prakash about the implications of the Supreme Court’s decisions in Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook. They discussed the breadth of the holding in Slaughter; its implicatio... more

Jack chats with Robert Wright about his forthcoming book, The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning. They discuss why Wright views AI through an evolutionary lens, the promises and perils of increasingly capable AI systems... more

Bob and Jack discuss President Trump’s nomination of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the current acting attorney general, to become Attorney General. They review Blanche’s record at DOJ, including his role in political weaponization, ethics con... more

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Recent Guests

Robert Wright
Author of The God Test, Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning
Author
Episode: The God Test
Avril Haines
Former Director of National Intelligence; Fellow at Columbia University; Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford
Institute for Global Politics at Columbia University; All Souls College, Oxford
Episode: What Exactly is Bill Pulte’s New Job as Acting Director of National Intelligence?
Sebastian Mallaby
Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, biographer and writer
Council on Foreign Relations
Episode: The Many Challenges of AI Safety
Marty Lederman
Professor at Georgetown Law School
Georgetown Law School
Episode: Who Owns Presidential Records?
Sarah Isgur
Editor of SCOTUSblog; host of Advisory Opinion Podcast; ABC News legal analyst
SCOTUSblog; Advisory Opinion Podcast; ABC News
Episode: The Last Branch Standing
Kurt Bradley
Co-author, Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs
University of Chicago Law School
Episode: Can Trump Pull Out of NATO?
Cass Sunstein
Professor and author of Separation of Powers, How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times
Harvard Law School
Episode: The Most Dangerous Branch
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center; former White House Homeland Security Advisor
Harvard Belfer Center
Episode: Homeland Security in a Time of War with Iran
Matthew Seligman
Fellow at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford; filed amicus brief opposing tariffs, represents importers seeking refunds
Stanford Constitutional Law Center
Episode: The Tariff Refund Problem

Hosts

Jack Goldsmith
Co-host and analyst; host of the show; Harvard Law School (affiliation mentioned in context of host)
Bob Bauer
Host of the podcast and co-author of the book description in the intro; co-host and analyst

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Sai Prakash on Slaughter and Cook
Q: What is the Fed's exception, and why is it controversial?
The Fed exception is viewed as recognizing that the Federal Reserve's independence can justify limited removal power, but the justification is thin and contentious because the Fed engages in regulatory actions that resemble executive power beyond monetary policy.
Sai Prakash on Slaughter and Cook
Q: Does the opinion imply an expanded removal power for all officials, or is the reading more limited to principal officers?
There is a tension: one reader argues for a maximalist view that encompasses a wide range of officials, while others, including Justice Gorsuch in concurrence, describe a more constrained scope that may limit applicability to principal officers and a narrower class of officials.
Sai Prakash on Slaughter and Cook
Q: How would you state the holding in Slaughter and what is the scope of the president's removal power?
The chief justice seems to articulate a broad principle—that whoever exercises the president's executive power is subject to presidential removal, potentially extending to officials beyond cabinet secretaries and even those who operate under the president's supervision.
The God Test
Q: Are you arguing that AI evolution is analogous to biological evolution, or that it is a follow-on form of civilization-level evolution?
Wright explains there are two levels of evolution: (1) the training of large language models resembles natural selection and (2) technology's broader cultural evolution, which can be viewed as a logical extension of biological evolution, with important caveats about differences and the role of human agency.
What Exactly is Bill Pulte’s New Job as Acting Director of National Intelligence?
Q: What is the relationship between ODNI and Congress in terms of oversight and accountability?
ODNI engages in closed-door briefings and classified hearings, conducts annual threat assessments for public hearings, and aims to brief both sides of the aisle with consistent information to support oversight without political bias.

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This show centers on the politics and law of the presidency, with hosts dissecting how executive power interacts with Congress, the courts, and national security. Across episodes, discussions routinely cover constitutional doctrine, presidential prerogatives, war powers, and the boundaries of executive action, often tying in real-world events and court decisions. Guests are drawn from high-profile legal scholars, former government officials, and policy experts who illuminate how constitutional structures shape both everyday governance and extraordinary political developments. A notable throughline is rigorous, principled debate about institutional design, checks and balances, and the practical implications of legal norms for policy and over... more

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4. Marty Lederman
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6. Kurt Bradley
7. Cass Sunstein
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