Profs & Pints DC: Legal Guardrails for Trump 2.0

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Legal Guardrails for Trump 2.0,” an examination of where laws and the judiciary offer checks to overreach by Donald Trump’s incoming administration, with Scott Michelman, Legal Director of the ACLU-D.C. and lecturer on law and Shikes Fellow in Civil Liberties and Civil Rights at Harvard Law School.

In a time of political uncertainty and increasing threats to civil liberties, it’s more important than ever to understand how our democracy and civil rights are protected. Join Scott Michelman, a veteran law-school teacher and civil-rights lawyer who has litigated cases from the Supreme Court on down, for an insightful discussion of how we can defend our freedoms and what the courts can—and can’t—do to protect us.

You’ll get a crash course on various checks on presidential power and on areas where presidents have substantial leeway. Michelman will talk about specific threats to our rights, including free speech,…