Are There Constitutional Constraints Against President Trump's Actions?

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.

Speaker: Leland Chan, Golden Gate University

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