Our speaker is Michael L. Mezey, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at DePaul University in Chicago, and author of five books. Michael is a resident of Friendship Heights and an FHNN volunteer.  He will discuss how our understanding of the constitutional arrangement of shared powers between the President and the Congress has been challenged during the early months of the second Trump Administration. Trump’s assertion of executive power exploits the ambiguities in the constitutional design of the presidency, exposes the fragility of the checks on executive tyranny that the Founders believed that they had created, and calls into question the commitment of the American people to our constitutional system.

This is an FHNN event, open to everyone, as part of our collaboration with Little Falls Village.