Bassin: Many White House Rules Are Non-Binding Traditions Rather Than Laws
Ian Bassin · Protect Democracy’s Ian Bassin on scaling a nonprofit across political divides | Masters of Scale · Mar 19, 2024 · at 5:47
Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy and former Associate White House Counsel under Obama, describes reviewing presidential counsel guidance dating back to the Eisenhower administration.
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“What was striking about it and became, you know, so clear over the next three years, where these binders became my Bible, was that a lot of these rules are not legally binding. They were just traditions.”
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