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Stuart Streichler taught law and politics at the University of Washington, the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of Miami, and as a Fulbright scholar at Tohoku University in Japan. Author of Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism, he is completing a project on presidential accountability.
It has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.
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