Special Session: Executive Power vs. Congressional Power [2019 NLC]

There are a number of currently unfolding battles, involving important constitutional issues, between Congress and the Executive Branch. At the operational level, they involve the House’s exercise of its oversight, and impeachment powers pitted against the Administration’s opposition to these efforts. At the more conceptual level, we hear assertions that arguably challenge the Constitution’s core separation of powers architecture, which holds that the three branches of the federal government are co-equal. How much power does the Constitution give to the Executive Branch, and how much to the Legislative Branch, and does the answer depend on whether or not one of these two branches is exercising power against the other?

FEATURING

- Mr. W. Neil Eggleston, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis

- Hon. Edith H. Jones, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

- Prof. Martin Lederman, Professor from Practice, Georgetown University Law Center

- Mr. David B. Rivkin, Jr., Partner, BakerHostetler

- Moderator: Hon. A. Raymond Randolph, United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit

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As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.

[2019