Donald Trump and the Weight of Presidential Speech
An interview with Prof. Kate Shaw
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President Trump’s habit of making off the cuff remarks and veering off script that sometimes contradicts official White House policy raises the question: when and how much should the president’s speech matter in the courts? With litigations on the travel bans, sanctuary cities, and other executive actions, the courts are grappling with this issue. Professor Shaw explores how courts have historically examined such speech and offers her proposal for a legal framework.
About Prof. Kate Shaw
“This is where the debate happens. This is the new town square.”
Kate Shaw is a Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. Before joining Cardozo, she worked in the White House Counsel’s Office as a Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President and Associate Counsel to the President. She clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Professor Shaw’s teaching and research interests include constitutional law, legislation, administrative law, the Supreme Court, election law, and gender and sexual orientation and the law. She has published works in, among others, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, and the Georgetown Law Journal.
