Suicide Pact
The Radical Expansion of Presidential Powers and the Lethal Threat to American Liberty
Every emergency enlarges the presidency and no emergency ever quite ends, which is how the office keeps the powers it borrows.
The argument is that presidential power expands during every emergency and never fully contracts afterwards, so each crisis leaves the office permanently larger. Napolitano runs the pattern from Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus through the Espionage Act to modern surveillance, treating national security as the standing justification. Rand Paul supplies the foreword, which tells you where the book sits politically.
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