Where: The Sheen Center 18 Bleecker Street New York New York NY 10012
When: December 11th
Time: 06:30 pm
Price Range: Under $50
Wednesday, December 11, 6:30 PM ET
Elizabeth Price Foley vs. Glenn Greenwald
Resolution:
Presidential immunity for official acts is a key factor in the proper functioning of the U.S. government's executive branch.
For the Affirmative:
Elizabeth Price Foley is a Professor of Law at Florida International University College of Law, a public law school in Miami, Florida, where she teaches constitutional law and separation of powers. She also serves Of Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Baker Hostetler, where she practices constitutional and appellate law. Professor Foley is the author of three books on constitutional law published by Yale, Harvard and Cambridge University Presses. She is has testified before Congress on numerous constitutional topics and her op-eds appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal. She has previously served as a judicial clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a Fulbright fellow at the National University of Ireland, and a senior legislative aide on Capitol Hill.
For the negative:
Glenn Greenwald is a constitutional lawyer, investigative journalist, and best-selling author. Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald’s fiercely adversarial reporting has won the highest awards in journalism around the world, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the NSA-Snowden revelations. Leaving The Intercept—which he co-founded—in 2020, he is now an independent journalist and host of SYSTEM UPDATE nightly on Rumble.
About the Event:
Debate Location:
The Sheen Center
18 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
Debate Details:
6:00 PM: Doors Open
6:30 PM: Meeting Convenes
Reception Location:
Gene Epstein & Hisako Kobayashi's Apartment
55 Great Jones Street
Reception Details:
8:00 PM: Doors Open
Food and drink are included with a Reception ticket
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