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Andrew Kolin

Andrew Kolin is a professor of political science at Hilbert College. He earned his doctorate from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He has taught throughout CUNY and the State University of New York, as well as at private colleges. He is the author of 7 books, most recently of Trump and Trumpism: The Destructive Politics of American Fascism (Lexington Books, 2023). He is also the author of The Ethical Foundations of Hume’s Theory of Politics (1991); State Structure and Genocide (2008), State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bush (2012), Political Economy of Labor Repression in the United States (2016), One Family: Before, During and After the Holocaust (2021) and Irrationality of Capitalism and Climate Change (Lexington Books, 2022).

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Trump’s Dangerous ‘State of Exception’: SCOTUS must not Allow Presidential Immunity

Trump’s Dangerous ‘State of Exception’: SCOTUS must not Allow Presidential Immunity

Andrew Kolin

Hamburg, NY (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Carl Schmitt wrote in Political Theology (1922) “sovereign is he who decides on the state of the exception.” What Schmitt meant in using the word “exception” is that in a specific historical timeframe a sovereign can suspend law in the context of a declared state of emergency. […]

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