What a Comparison With Roosevelt Reveals About Trump

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By Jack Goldsmith and Samuel Moyn

Mr. Goldsmith, an assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush administration, is an author, with Bob Bauer, of a newsletter about presidential and executive power. Mr. Moyn is the author of the forthcoming “Gerontocracy in America.”

A little more than a year into President Trump’s second term, his executive power grabs have been arrestingly similar to ones pioneered by an iconic predecessor liberals revere: Franklin D.........

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