Why Strict Cabinet Succession Is Always Bad Policy: A Response to Professor Jack Goldsmith and Ben Miller-Gootnick from Seth Barrett Tillman

Seth Barrett Tillman
Friday, May 1, 2020 - 10:30

Recent scholarship has suggested that it is bad policy to put the presiding legislative officers in the line of successor for the presidency. Tillman takes a contrary position. 
Why Strict Cabinet Succession Is Always Bad Policy: A Response to Professor Jack Goldsmith and Ben Miller-Gootnick, Harv. Nat’l Sec. J. Online (2020), <https://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/04/Tillman_Why-Strict-Cabinet-Succession-Is-Always-Bad-Policy.pdf>