How to Reform the Presidency After Trump

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🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The power of the president is typically kept in check by other branches of government and historical political norms, but the past four years have revealed alarming fissures in the system. In the book, "After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency," law professors Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith argue that the presidency of Donald Trump has revealed the executive branch's vulnerability to abuse by a president and a lack of accountability that necessitate further reform of presidential powers. In this hour, we'll hear from Bauer and Goldsmith about how Trump and previous presidents have overstepped their powers and what reforms could be viable during the next administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:11.9	This is Forum.
1:12.7	I'm Michael Krasny.
1:13.9	In a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, authors Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith
1:18.4	argue that the office of the president requires significant reforms.
1:23.2	Using office for personal gain, refusing to release his tax reforms,
1:27.6	President Trump's behavior during the past four years demonstrates the complexities
1:31.8	of regulating presidential abuses and ethical breaches.
1:35.8	Bauer and Goldsmith join us to talk about their proposals for reforms and which reforms
1:39.8	can be enacted by the executive and congressional branches of the U.S. government.
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