ACLU: Media Advisory: Panel Discussion "Restoring Constitutional Order"
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 26, 2008
1:10 PM
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CONTACT: ACLU
Maggie Barron at 212-998-6153 or maggie.barron@nyu.edu
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“Restoring Constitutional Order”
A Panel Discussion THURSDAY Featuring ACLU Attorney Hina Shamsi, Aziz Huq, Eric Lichtblau, Charlie Savage & Bruce Fein
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WASHINGTON, DC - March 26 - On Thursday, March 27, at 1 p.m. at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, American Civil Liberties Union attorney Hina Shamsi joins a Brennan Center for Justice panel of Pulitzer Prize winners, national security experts and constitutional scholars to discuss “The Challenge Facing the Next President: Restoring Constitutional Order After Bush. Brennan Center for Justice attorney Aziz Huq will also present 12 Steps to Restore Checks and Balances, a step-by-step plan to rein in the imperial presidency.
The assembled panel includes:
Hina Shamsi – Staff attorney from the ACLU National Security Project and author and co-author of publications on torture and extraordinary rendition.
Eric Lichtblau – Pulitzer Prize-winning Justice Department reporter for The New York Times and author of the forthcoming Bush’s Law: Remaking American Justice.
Charlie Savage – Pulitzer Prize-winning National Correspondent for the Boston Globe and author of Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy.
Bruce Fein – Justice Department official from the Reagan administration and adjunct scholar with the American Enterprise Institute and resident scholar at the Heritage Foundation who writes weekly columns for the Washington Times and the Politico.
Aziz Huq – Director of the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center for Justice and co-author of Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror.
The discussion will take place in the Zenger Room at the National Press Club (529 14th Street NW) in Washington, DC at 1 p.m. The event is free and open to the media and the public.
Please RSVP with Maggie Barron at 212-998-6153 or maggie.barron@nyu.edu
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