Jack Goldsmith

When former President Donald J. Trump’s social media company went public this week, supporters and investors betting on Mr. Trump’s political success helped drive the…

A bipartisan group of legal experts is sounding an alarm about presidential power this election season. They’re pushing Congress to update a cluster of laws…

An op-ed by Jack Goldsmith: On Tuesday, when the special counsel Robert Hur testifies before Congress, it will be high presidential-year political theater. This is…

In major cases concerning former President Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court has tried to put some distance between itself and politics. That fragile project…

As the 2024 presidential election approaches, a vital question is whether the legal architecture governing the election is well crafted to prevent corruption and abuse.

The large-scale military strikes the United States has directed at the Houthis, an Iran-backed militant group in Yemen that has disrupted shipping in the Red…

If the House follows through on this week’s committee recommendation and impeaches Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security, it will be the first…

Last week, former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger passed away. To assess his legacy, Jack Goldsmith sat down with Graham Allison,…

It is commonplace for American leaders to describe their fiercest foreign adversaries as irrational, crazy, delusional, or illogical. In their new book, “How States Think:…

If he is elected to a second term, President Biden pledged that he will go to Congress to start any major war but said he…

Liberalism today is under attack, as it often has been. Samuel Moyn, the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University, believes that…

There is no more consequential technological development in recent years than widely accessible artificial intelligence. And there are few more consequential contemporary figures in the…

An op-ed by Jack Goldsmith: It may be satisfying now to see the special counsel Jack Smith indict Donald Trump for his reprehensible and possibly…

Jonathan Goodman, the magistrate judge assigned to handle Donald J. Trump’s arraignment, did something of a double take during the proceeding on Tuesday, when the…

Harvard University law professor Jack Goldsmith thinks President Joe Biden should “stop” commenting about ongoing probes in the wake of the tax investigation against his…

As the first-ever indictment of a former U.S. president unfolds, much is riding on one man: Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen. Cohen,…