ACS Podcast

On Tuesday, Jan. 24, ACS hosted a briefing call featuring Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Law School; Deepak Gupta, appellate advocate and principal at Gupta Wessler PLLC and Joshua Matz associate at Robbins Russell LLP. These three leading lawyers discussed the lawsuit alleging that Trump is violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution by allowing his businesses to accept payments from foreign governments. The participants addressed the following questions: What are "emoluments" and is Trump receiving them? Is this a political question? Are there jurisdictional questions? Who has standing to bring cases in regards to a violation of the Emoluments Clause? What is the remedy? Featured Speakers: Caroline Fredrickson, ACS President, Moderator Deepak Gupta, Partner, Gupta Wessler PLLC Joshua Matz, Associate, Robbins Russell LLP Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School

On March 8, ACS hosted a briefing call on the Trump Administration's second travel ban that purports to cure the defects of the first. After the first travel ban was rebuffed by federal courts in its attempt to restrict refugee admissions and travel from designated Muslim-majority nations, the ACS briefing call looked to answer the following questions. How do the two executive orders differ? Are those differences constitutionally and legally significant? And what have we learned in recent weeks about the implementation challenges raised by such orders? Featured Speakers: Adam Winkler, Professor of Law, UCLA Law School; ACS Board of Directors, Moderator Anil Kalhan, Associate Professor of Law, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Dr. Stephen Legomsky, John S. Lehmann University Professor Emeritus, Washington University Law School;Former Chief Counsel, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (2011-2013)

On August 24, 2017, ACS hosted a call on the most recent challenge to DACA. In June 2012, President Obama announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (“DACA”), which allowed qualifying young people who were brought to the United States as children to request that any removal action against them be deferred in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. Subsequent programs (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (“DAPA”) and the 2014 “expanded DACA”) were preliminarily enjoined by a Texas federal judge, whose decision was affirmed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and ultimately by an evenly divided U.S. Supreme Court. Now the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, and 10 other state Attorneys General have written to Attorney General Sessions indicating their intent to challenge the 2012 DACA in court unless the administration agrees to rescind the program by September 5, 2017. Featuring: Caroline Fredrickson, ACS President, Moderator Lorella Praeli, ACLU Director of Immigration Policy and Campaigns Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar, Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, Penn State Law

ACS Conference Call featuring Tracey E. George, Vanderbilt Law professor and co-author of "What Every Law Student Really Needs to Know: An Introduction to the Study of Law" in conversation with Vaishali Goyal ’18, Boston College Law School, ACS Next Generation Leader.

On April 29, ACS hosted a discussion of the recently released Mueller Report. As we continue to digest Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election, serious legal questions remain regarding Congress’s power to subpoena a sitting president, the alleged legal impediments that prevented Mueller from indicting Trump associates for campaign finance violations, and what the law of obstruction actually provides. These questions take on more importance as we ask, what comes next? As talk of impeachment surfaces in both Democratic and Republican circles, what do we know about the meaning of “high crimes and misdemeanors”? Featuring: Bob Bauer, Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence, New York University Law School; White House Counsel to President Barack Obama Neil Kinkopf, Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law; Counselor to then-Senator Joseph Biden for the Impeachment Trial of President Clinton Barbara McQuade, Professor from Practice, University of Michigan Law School; Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Caroline Fredrickson, President, American Constitution Society