Checks on executive power have become fully unbalanced, with boundaries and guardrails overrun daily. Congressional leadership unwilling to challenge a president of their own party and an enabling Court have thus far proven largely uninterested in reining in a president who openly defies constitutional and legal constraints on his power. A recent panel at ACS's 2026 National Convention tackles the question of what can be done now to curb executive power and rebalance our branches of federal government?

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Host: Lindsay Langholz, Vice President of Policy and Program

Guest: Vanita Gupta, Director of the Center for Law and Public Trust, NYU Law

Guest: Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School

Guest: Barbara McQuade, Professor from Practice, University of Michigan Law School

Guest: Hon. Jamie Raskin, Member, U.S. House of Representatives for the 8th District of Maryland

Guest: Donald Sherman, President and Chief Executive Officer, CREW

Link: Videos of all 2026 National Convention Panel Conversations Coming Soon

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Since retaking office, the Trump Administration has put the legal profession in the crosshairs through executive orders, administrative rules, and public pressure campaigns targeting lawyers, law firms, and judges. In a recent wave of attacks, the Administration has set its sights on law schools and law students. Amanda Fuchs Miller joins Ashley Erickson to discuss the various levers of federal power being pulled by the Administration to target legal education and what can be done about it.

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Host: Ashley Erickson, Senior Director of Network Advancement

Guest: Amanda Fuchs Miller, President, Seventh Street Strategies

Link: An Under the Radar Attempt to Politicize Federal Funding Needs Your Input, by Amanda Fuchs Miller

Link: Notice and Comment Project, ACS

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In the final weeks of the 2025-2026 term, the Supreme Court will issue over two dozen decisions in key cases. Before this final stretch, we return to ACS's Supreme Court Preview event to refresh our collective memories on those cases still outstanding and as an opportunity to reflect on what the term has yielded thus far.

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Host: Valerie Nannery, Senior Director of Policy and Program

Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, Senior Writer, Slate Magazine

Guest: Carlos A. Ball, Distinguished Professor of Law and Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar, Rutgers Law School

Guest: Alexis Hoag-Fordjour, David Dinkins '56 Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Criminal Justice, Brooklyn Law School

Guest: Pamela S. Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law and Co-Director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford Law School

Guest: Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar, Director of the Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic, and Clinical Professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson Law

Link: ACS National Supreme Court Preview 2025-2026

Link: Supreme Court Term in Review, Georgetown Law on July 1

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