Bob Bauer in Bloomberg
Bloomberg columnist Nia-Malika Henderson covered “After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency,” by Co-Chairs Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith, and interviewed Bauer. She writes:
Bob Bauer has seen the presidency up close, both from working in the Obama administration as general counsel and serving as President Joe Biden’s personal lawyer. He now thinks the office is broken, a reality made plain by four years of Donald Trump, who proved that the presidency is susceptible to the whims of whoever has the title.
In After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency, Bauer and his co-writer Jack Goldsmith, who served in President George W. Bush’s administration, outline more than 50 proposals for fixing the presidency. The duo also heads the Presidential Reform Project, a bipartisan group dedicated to shoring up the norms and laws governing the presidency. I reached out to Bauer for his views on what a second Trump presidency might mean for the already fraying constraints on the presidency, what Biden could do while still in power and what path to reforming the office will remain open no matter who holds it.