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David Schultz is Hamline University professor in the Graduate School of Management where he teaches classes in government ethics, public policy, and public administration. He also holds appointments in the Hamline University Department of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science, where he teaches classes on crime, criminal procedure, and policing, and at the Minnesota Law School where he teaches election law, professional responsibility, and state constitutional law. David is also a senior fellow at the Institute of Law and Politics at the University of Minnesota Law School. Professor Schultz is the author of 24 books, 12 legal treatises on eminent domain, and over fifty articles on various aspects of law, ethics, public policy, and the media and politics. His most recent publications include: Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America (M.E. Sharpe), the Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court (Facts on File, Inc), and Lights, Camera, Campaign Media, Politics, and Political Advertising (Peter Lang Publishing). He is currently working on his forthcoming Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution (Facts on File, Inc.) and the Encyclopedia of the First Amendment (Congressional Quarterly Press). David is admitted to practice before the Minnesota state and federal district court bars and before the United States Supreme Court where he has participated in several briefs.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 5, 2018 Trump's Nixonian Moment has Arrived
Basic principles of law such as checks and balances and separation of powers stand for the proposition that presidents are not above the law and that no person, not even the president, has unlimited authority to pardon himself from being accountable to the law. Presidents are not kings, they cannot be prosecutors, judges, juries, and executioners all at the same time.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 20, 2017 Identity Politics and the Triumph of Trump Tax Reform
The passage of the Trump-Republican tax plan--along with the 40 years of increasing economic inequality in the United States--speaks to the failures and limits of identity politics in America.
(12 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 16, 2016 Obama's Presidential Legacy: A Weakened Democratic Party and Timidity of Reform
Obama's final State of the Union speech was about his legacy. While Obama has accomplished a lot--far more than often given credit and his speech detailed what he did--one of his great failings is his inability to restructure the Democratic party and build a new majority coalition to support his policies. He leaves the Democratic Party far weaker now than when elected, and his legacy more fragile and timid than it should be.