Are There Constitutional Constraints Against President Trump's Actions?

The Bay Area Humanists and the Humanist Community of SiliconValley are jointly presenting this Forum and discussion on this timely topic. The meeting will be both IN PERSON and on ZOOM. For in-person participants, a lunch will be served after the forum. We request a $10 donation for lunch.

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SYNOPSIS
The second Trump administration hit the ground running with a flurry of Executive Orders, the scope of which raises questions of legality and constitutionality. Can the presidency unilaterally eviscerate USAID activities if the programs had been created and funded by Congress? Doesn't that violate the principle of separation of powers? Can President Trump unilaterally eliminate birthright citizenship? Eliminate all "DEI" programs within the federal government? Can he unilaterally form the Department of Government Efficiency and, if so, what powers could it have? What about Panama, Greenland, and Canada? In this presentation Prof. Chan will discuss how the U.S. constitution had been crafted in order to prevent the concentration of power (that the Trump administration is now attempting to wield), and how those constraints can fail.
ABOUT LELAND CHAN
Leland Chan is currently an adjunct professor of law at Golden Gate University. He is a retired General Counsel of the California Bankers Association. He holds a JD from the University of California at Berkeley