The pace of executive orders and changes to immigration policies has been much faster and broader in the second Trump administration than during the first, pushing the limits of the law even further. Immigrants are on the front lines of attacks on free speech, due process, and worker protections, which threaten liberty for everyone in the U.S. Across the country, we are facing a choice between cooperation and resistance, which will affect the rights of immigrants and citizens alike. What does the current legal landscape look like? How are we working to protect our neighbors and ourselves, in the courts, states, cities, and in workplaces, schools, and the streets?
Featuring:
Murad Awawdeh, President & CEO, New York Immigration Coalition
Hon. Nick Brown, Attorney General, Washington State Office of the Attorney General
Alina Das, James Weldon Johnson Professor & Co-Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, New York University School of Law
Under the current presidential administration, and over the past several decades, economic and political power has become increasingly entrenched in the hands of a small group of ultra-wealthy individuals. Most notoriously, in the spring, Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire, exercised unprecedented power to weaken pro-worker and consumer agencies like the National Labor Relation Board, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. This panel examines how workers and tenants can rebuild power at the local, state and national levels.
Featuring:
Greg Baltz, Co-Director, Housing Justice and Tenant Solidarity Clinic, Rutgers Law School
Hon. Jennifer McEwen, Senator, Minnesota State Senate
This panel explores the growing centralization of power in state legislatures through gerrymandering and efforts to strip authority from those best positioned to provide checks on that power. These developments have coincided with the U.S. Supreme Court’s push to return key issues to state control, prompting progressives to turn to state constitutions and laws in response to harmful federal policies. What can we learn from states facing these antidemocratic power grabs—and how can progressives restore meaningful checks and balances at every level of government?
Featuring:
Kylar W. Broadus, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Public Speaker, Strategist, Legislative, Policy, Management
Alana Jochum, State Policy Director, Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE)
William McGinty, Assistant Attorney General, Washington State Office of the Attorney General
This panel explores the growing centralization of power in state legislatures through gerrymandering and efforts to strip authority from those best positioned to provide checks on that power. These developments have coincided with the U.S. Supreme Court’s push to return key issues to state control, prompting progressives to turn to state constitutions and laws in response to harmful federal policies. What can we learn from states facing these antidemocratic power grabs—and how can progressives restore meaningful checks and balances at every level of government?
Four state attorneys general joined ACS for a powerful virtual town hall to discuss the lasting impact of the Trump administration on communities nationwide—and how state leaders are stepping up to defend individual rights and the rule of law. Watch as participants share their stories and questions live in this urgent, inspiring conversation.
In recent weeks, the Trump Administration has escalated intimidation efforts against Harvard University and other private colleges, by cancelling billions in federal funding, and threatening to revoke tax-exempt status unless the schools make major changes to their hiring and teaching practices. In this event, ACS will host Harvard Law Professor Andrew Manuel Crespo to make sense of the legal strategies behind the administration's attacks on higher education, and how the academy can defend its independence.
Featuring:
Andrew Manuel Crespo, Morris Wasserstein Professor of Law at Harvard University, General Counsel, AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter
Taonga Leslie, Director of Policy and Program for Racial Justice, American Constitution Society
