Panel 1 – “COVID and the Constitution” – 10:00am – 11:15am PT
What should we think about the broad delegations of power from legislatures to executives to implement new and draconian rules in response to COVID-19? Those delegations were designed to meet temporary emergencies—that is, things that had to be addressed before the legislature could act. But they are now being used to avoid legislative accountability altogether, and not just for a short-term response, but for the long haul. And it has extended beyond elected governors, to unelected health officials as well.
Panelists:
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John Eastman, Founding Director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence at the Claremont Institute
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John Yoo, Professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, and faculty member of the Claremont Institute
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Ilya Shapiro, Director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute and publisher of the Cato Supreme Court Review
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Tom West, the Paul Ermine Potter and Dawn Tibbetts Potter Professor of Politics, Hillsdale College and Director and Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute
Panel 2 – “Election Law and Election Fraud” – 11:30am – 12:45am PT
The Left is using COVID-19 as an excuse to advance long-held goals that completely undermine the election system, including universal vote by mail (with ballots sent to every registered voter on notoriously inaccurate voter rolls, whether the ballots are requested or not), ballot harvesting (allowing anyone to collect and turn in ballots, which comes with a huge risk of voter intimidation and outright fraud), elimination of voter ID, and more.
Panelists:
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John Eastman, Founding Director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence at the Claremont Institute
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Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and manager of the think tank’s Election Law Reform Initiative
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NEW: Tara Ross, retired lawyer and former Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Review of Law & Politics
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Tim Canova, Professor of Law and Public Finance at NSU Shepard Broad College of Law
