Asha Rangappa
Person on 4 sites
American lawyer and former FBI special agent; senior lecturer at Yale's Jackson School of Global Affairs, editor at Just Security and author of the Substack…
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The unitary executive is incompatible with checks and balances: a president who is above the law, can fire anyone and can withhold funds is no longer a coequal branch. (opens korrents.com)
“the “unitary executive” is, quite simply, incompatible with a theory of checks and balances. A President who is 1) above the law; 2) can hire and fire everyone under him at will; and 3) decide to withhold or spend…”
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The US should amend the Constitution to create a fourth branch holding the Justice Department and every institution that must stay independent. (opens korrents.com)
“So what would a fourth branch look like? Well, since my McGill talk, and particularly since Trump 2.0 and the Supreme Court’s expansive embrace of the unitary executive theory, I think a fourth branch would need to…”
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The current US structure, with the Justice Department under the executive branch, is not sustainable. (opens korrents.com)
“And yet, our current structure in the U.S. is simply not sustainable.”
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The unitary executive is incompatible with checks and balances: a president who is above the law, can fire anyone and can withhold funds is no longer a coequal branch. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Burning (opens rcmnd.app)
“I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma last fall and I got a book called The Burning by Tim Madigan about the Tulsa race massacre which was very eye opening and astonishing that I did not learn that in history.”
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Breaking Twitter (opens rcmnd.app)
“Uh I recently read Ben Mezri's breaking Twitter uh which is basically how Musk broke Twitter but it is an interesting playbook that you are seeing replicated now. So it was a good insight into his mind.”
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Erasing History (opens rcmnd.app)
“And then Jason Stanley's erasing history, how fascists rewrite the past to control the future, which is very preient uh in terms of what the Trump administration is trying to do to universities right now. Oscar…”
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The Burning (opens rcmnd.app)