Lunch Talk with State Attorneys General
Please join Harvard ACS in welcoming AG William Tong of Connecticut, AG Kathy Jennings of Deleware, AG Keith Ellison of Minnesota, and AG Raúl Torrez of New Mexico for a Lunch Talk on November 14.
Event Co-Sponsors: APALSA, BLSA, HLS Dems, La Alianza, Lambda, and QTPOC
Law & Democracy Series: Arizona Election Administrator Panel
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Room 125
RSVP for Lunch here: https://forms.office.com/r/PZTRQwJ3n1
Arizona Elections Administrators have been at the front lines of the democratic process. The panelists have unique experiences witnessing election law in action and the effect it has on administering elections at the local and state levels. Their backgrounds and current roles offer insight into the effects of political polarization on the electoral process and how lawyers can participate in the preservation of democracy.
Amy B. Chan was admitted to the Arizona State Bar in 1999 and serves as the General Counsel to the Arizona Secretary of State's Office. Chan is also a Commissioner for the Arizona Citizens for Clean Elections.
Colleen Connor is the Arizona State Elections Director. Connor was admitted to the Arizona State Bar in 1994, has over 25 years of election law experience, and is a Certified Election Officer.
Lisa Marra serves as the Deputy Director of Elections for Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. Lisa joined the executive team in March 2023, after serving as the Director of Elections in Cochise County, Arizona where she was Community Relations Administrator for the Board of Supervisors overseeing legislative affairs, public relations, and management of federal grant funds before being appointed Director of Elections in 2017.
The Law and Democracy Series involves several speakers and events occurring at the College of Law that address the degradation of democracy, the deep polarization in our political culture, and the role of lawyers in preserving and thinking about democracy and the rule of law. This Series is provided by generous support from Ron and the late Barb Schaefer.
ACS Book Talk with Cliff Sloan: “The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made.”
ACS New York: The Court at War with Cliff Sloan
Join the ACS New York Lawyer Chapter and the NYU Law School ACS Student Chapter for a book talk with former ACS Board Chair Cliff Sloan on his new book, The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made.
Featuring:
Cliff Sloan, Professor from Practice, Georgetown University Law Center
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country—with consequences that endure today.
By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year of his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt had molded his Court. He had appointed seven of the nine justices—the most by any president except George Washington—and handpicked the chief justice.
But the wartime Roosevelt Court had two faces. One was bold and progressive, the other supine and abject, cowed by the charisma of the revered president.
The Court at War explores this pivotal period. It provides a cast of unforgettable characters in the justices—from the mercurial, Vienna-born intellectual Felix Frankfurter to the Alabama populist Hugo Black; from the western prodigy William O. Douglas, FDR’s initial pick to be his running mate in 1944, to Roosevelt’s former attorney general and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Jackson.
The justices’ shameless capitulation and unwillingness to cross their beloved president highlight the dangers of an unseemly closeness between Supreme Court justices and their political patrons. But the FDR Court’s finest moments also provided a robust defense of individual rights, rights the current Court has put in jeopardy. Sloan’s intimate portrait is a vivid, instructive tale for modern times.