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Congress’s Interbranch Role: The Executive, the Court, and Dobbs
May 25, 2022
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Senate Visitors Center
U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
Room SVC 203-02
In light of recent events such as the leaked Dobbs draft opinion and Congress’s response through legislation, the Gray Center hosted a timely conference on Capitol Hill to discuss the role of Congress in relation to both the Supreme Court and the Executive Branch. The conference included two panels followed by a keynote lunch.
Agenda
All sessions held in the Senate Visitors Center
(First St NE, Washington, DC 20515), Room SVC 203-02
9:00 – 9:25 am: Registration & Breakfast
9:25 – 9:30 am: Welcome
Jennifer Mascott, Assistant Professor of Law & Co-Executive Director, The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, Scalia Law School
9:30 am – 10:45 am: Panel 1 – Congress versus the Executive (Emergency Authority, the Border, Regulatory Reform, & Oversight)
The Honorable Steven G. Bradbury, Former General Counsel and Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation
William R. Levi, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP (former Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Justice)
Hashim M. Mooppan, Partner, Jones Day (former head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Appellate Division)
Josh Chafetz, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
10:45 – 11:00 am: Break
11:00 am – 12:15 pm: Panel 2 – Congress, Jurisdiction, Process, & the Institution of the Supreme Court
The Honorable Thomas B. Griffith, Special Counsel, Hunton Andrews Kurth (former Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit & former Member, Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States)
The Honorable Steven A. Engel, Partner, Dechert LLP (former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, DOJ)
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, Gray Center
Jeffrey B. Wall, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (former Acting Solicitor General of the United States)
Sarah Isgur, Co-Host, Advisory Opinions Podcast & Staff Writer, The Dispatch; Analyst, ABC News & former Director of the Office of Public Affairs, DOJ
12:15 – 12:30 pm: Break
12:30 – 1:15 pm: Lunchtime Conversation
Ambassador C. Boyden Gray, former White House Counsel and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
1:15 pm: Adjourn