What Jack Goldsmith thinks about government
American legal scholar; Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel from 2003 to 2004. Writes Executive Functions with Bob Bauer on presidential power.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Jack Goldsmith has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe aim has been to use every tool of government power-prosecutions, investigations, raids, arrests, firings, funding and benefit cutoffs, threats of all of these things, other sorts of threats, and harsh government speech that riles up crowds of minatory supporters-in an effort to impose as much pain as possible on enemies, broadly conceived.
↗Senator Slotkin’s Imprudent Remarks and Republicans’ Hypocritical Reactionsexecfunctions.org 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsAnd as a general matter the Trump administration has succeeded in chilling most IGs around the government from robustly pursuing abuse and fraud within their agencies.
↗Inspectors General Live!execfunctions.org 2nd of 3 in this piece