Jack Goldsmith in The Week

The Week‘s Joel Mathis quoted Co-Chair Jack Goldsmith in a piece on Insurrection Act reform:

Presidents are allowed under the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy the military in limited domestic situations, said ABC News. But some experts warn the law is “dangerously vague and ripe for abuse.” Reforms are needed, but Congress is too divided to take them up.

“There is agreement on both sides of the aisle that the Insurrection Act gives any president too much unchecked power,” said Harvard University’s Jack Goldsmith.

Read the piece here.