Foreign Influence and the Presidency

05/04/18 • 53 min

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

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What’s Next? The President’s Executive Orders on Immigration

On Monday Jan. 30, Caroline Fredrickson, President, American Constitution Society; Nicholas Espiritu, Staff Attorney, National Immigration Law Center; and David Strauss, Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Jenner & Block Supreme Court and Appellate Clinic, University of Chicago School of Law, discussed President Trump’s Executive Order barring admission into the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries for 90 days, suspending all refugee admissions for 120 days, and barring any entry by Syrian refugees without time limitation. The participants addressed the following questions: Are the orders constitutional? On what basis did five federal judges issue stays of the orders? What are the implications of reports that Customs and Borders Protection officers were not implementing those court orders? What can we expect next in the litigation challenging the orders? And what opportunities exist for lawyers to engage the crisis? Featured Speakers: Caroline Fredrickson, President, American Constitution Society for Law & Policy, Moderator Nicholas Espiritu, Staff Attorney, National Immigration Law Center David Strauss, Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Jenner & Block Supreme Court and Appellate Clinic, University of Chicago School of Law

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The Calm After the Voting Rights Storm?

The last decade has seen a steady rise in restrictions on the right to vote, with cuts to early voting, limitations on absentee voting, polling place closures, voter ID laws and changes to voter registration becoming routine in legislatures across the country. The 2016 presidential election, the first in over 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act, was also pervaded with calls for “poll watchers” to ensure “ballot integrity” and to protect against voter fraud. The election saw an unprecedented stream of litigation challenging laws and procedures regarding the right to vote. On Jan. 12, 2017 the American Constitution Society hosted a conference call featuring attorneys behind several of these lawsuits. The attorneys provided an update and in-depth discussion of the major litigation that arose during the 2016 election and its implications for elections and voting rights law in the future. Featured Speakers: Caroline Fredrickson, president, American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Dawn Smalls, partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP; member, Board of Directors, ACS; Moderator Marc Elias, partner; Firmwide Chair, Political Law Practice; member, Firmwide Executive Committee, Perkins Coie LLP Michael Gottlieb, partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP