Since being inaugurated in January, President Donald Trump has sought aggressively to consolidate governmental power within the Executive Branch and to wield presidential power in ways that are unprecedented. Many of his actions have been challenged in court, with lower federal courts ruling against his administration in more than 90% of all constitutional challenges this year. But in some of these disputes, the US Supeme Court has reversed the lower courts and sided with President Trump. We will discuss the most significant constitutional controversies that are currently pending in courts.

Moderator: Ken Katkin is Professor of Law at Salmon P. Chase Law School, NKU. He holds a JD from Northwestern Univ. School of Law and a BA in mathematics from Princeton. He appears frequently in local and national media as analyst for legal issues. Prior to Chase, he litigated constitutional and election law cases at Wiley, Rein & Fielding, Washington, DC.