Lawfare Archive: Austin Evers and Mike Stern on Congressional Oversight
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🗓️ 24 June 2023
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From July 9, 2019: President Trump has declared that he will fight “all the subpoenas” coming from Congress and has claimed “absolute immunity” for White House advisors. In doing so, he has brought the issue of congressional oversight of the executive branch to the front pages. To talk about that very issue, Margaret Taylor sat down with Austin Evers, the executive director of American Oversight, a non-profit government accountability watchdog; and Michael Stern, who served for many years as the Senior Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives. Stern is the founder of the Point of Order blog, which covers legal issues affecting Congress. They talked about pending oversight litigation, the House of Representatives’ strategy, how the Trump administration is responding, and if any of this is normal.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm Geo Kokatakis with an episode from the LawFair Archive for June 24, 2023. |
| 0:45.7 | The Supreme Court is set to give a decision on Cartahan vs. Maloney this term. |
| 0:50.2 | This case could have wide-ranging implications for the balance of power between Congress |
| 0:54.1 | and the executive branch. |
| 0:56.2 | For today's Archive episode, I picked an episode from July 9, 2019, in which Margaret |
| 1:01.5 | Taylor sat down with Austin Ever and Michael Stern to discuss how Trump brought the issue |
| 1:05.8 | of congressional oversight of the executive branch to the front pages, pending oversight litigation, |
| 1:11.2 | the House of Representative Strategy, and more. |
| 1:16.2 | I'm Margaret Taylor and this is the LawFair podcast July 9, 2019. |
| 1:27.9 | President Trump has declared that he will fight all the subpoenas coming from Congress |
| 1:32.4 | and has claimed absolute immunity for several White House advisors. |
| 1:36.7 | In doing so, he has brought the issue of congressional oversight of the executive branch |
| 1:40.5 | to the front pages. |
| 1:42.2 | To talk about that very topic, I sat down with Austin Evers, the executive director of |
| 1:47.3 | American Oversight, a nonprofit government accountability watchdog, and Michael Stern, |
| 1:52.9 | who served for many years as the senior counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| 1:57.6 | Stern is the founder of the Point of Order blog, which covers legal issues affecting Congress. |
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