Join the Court of History and Rep. Jamie Raskin on Zoom this Friday
The Constitutional Emergency: A Pre-Inaugural Briefing
Join the Court of History and Representative Jamie Raskin on the eve of Trump’s second presidential term to preview the coming threats and challenges to the rule of law.
When: January 17, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. EST.
Where: Online. RSVP for Zoom link.
Meet our panelists:
Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee.
Lisa Graves is the executive director of True North Research and president of the board of the Center for Media and Democracy. She previously served as the Chief Counsel for Nominations on the United States Senate Judiciary Committee under Sen. Patrick Leahy and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice during the Clinton Administration.
Norman Ornstein is an American political scientist, emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and co-host of the Words Matter podcast. He is the co-author (along with Thomas E. Mann) of It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism.
Mark Medish, a lawyer, served in the Clinton administration as NSC Senior Director for Russian and Ukrainian Affairs, as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and as a senior advisor at State/USAID. In 2020, he co-founded Keep Our Republic, a non-partisan civic organization to promote trust in the electoral system with a state-level focus.
Sidney Blumenthal is the co-chair of The Court of History. He is the former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume political life of Abraham Lincoln, is a member of the board of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, a columnist for The Guardian, former staff writer for The Washington Post, The New Republic and The New Yorker, and the author of The Permanent Campaign and The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, among other books.
Sean Wilentz is the co-chair of The Court of History. He is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University. His books have won, among other awards, the Bancroft Prize, and he also contributes work across the length and breadth of American journalism, from the New York Times to Rolling Stone to the New York Review of Books.
Panelists will speak and attendees will be invited to submit questions for Q&A. This online conference will be recorded and posted online.
A Zoom link will be sent to you upon registration.
Please RSVP at the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_94DOqWKIRTe2_ZuErcXJ6Q