Registration Opens January 2
Presidential Power:
More or Less?
MCA Member Bob Levy
Can the president lower drug prices, suspend habeas corpus, punish sanctuary cities, cancel our refugee and asylum programs, ban immigrants from selected countries, require illegal aliens to register, demand proof of citizenship, and rescind the rights of public sector workers? Are Trump's crypto connections and his receipt of an airplane from Qatar conflicts of interest? Do Trump's UK and China deals vindicate his tariff strategy? Can he serve more than two terms as president?
Bob Levy, chairman emeritus of the Cato Institute, will discuss the limits of presidential power.
Bob Levy
Bob Levy was, for 14 years, chairman of the board of directors at the Cato Institute. He is now chairman emeritus. Bob joined Cato as senior fellow in constitutional studies in 1997 after 25 years in business. The Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies is named in his honor. He has also served on boards of the Federalist Society, the Foundation for Government Accountability, and the Institute for Justice. Bob received his PhD in business from the American University in 1966, then founded CDA Investment Technologies, a major provider of investment information and software. At age 50, after leaving CDA in 1991, Bob went to George Mason law school, where he was chief articles editor of the law review and class valedictorian. He received his JD degree in 1994. The next two years he clerked for Judge Royce Lamberth on the US District Court and Judge Douglas Ginsburg on the US Court of Appeals, both in Washington, DC.
For many years, Bob was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, National Review, and many other publications. He has discussed public policy on national radio and TV programs, including ABC’s Nightline, Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, PBS’s Newshour, and NBC’s Today Show. Bob’s latest book, co-authored with William Mellor, is The Dirty Dozen: How 12 Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom. Bob served as co-counsel in District of Columbia v. Heller, the successful Supreme Court challenge to Washington, D.C.’s gun ban.
