Is your head spinning since the January 20th inauguration? Are you in shock? In the opening weeks of his second term, President Donald Trump and his administration have opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits, often with no explanation for how their actions could be consistent with the rule of law. He summarily fired 17 inspectors general, fired prosecutors involved in the cases against President Trump or the January 6 rioters, declared that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment will no longer be interpreted as granting citizenship to babies born on U.S. soil, dismantled USAID, and wants to invade Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal. Worst of all is the release of a team of orc-hackers who have no security clearances into the computer systems of our government. Are they stealing data, manipulating information or just breaking the country?

About the Speaker

Bill Sokol is a Bay Area labor and employment lawyer, a lecturer at SF State University, a gubernatorial appointee to the CalSavers Retirement Investment Board, and was a talk show host on Pacifica Radio for 25 years. He holds a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law. He teaches for UC Berkeley, the University of San Francisco, Laney College, and San Francisco City College, and UC Berkeley OLLI program.