I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We

the People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress

to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.

President Biden has signed 28 executive orders in his first two weeks in office by contrast, Franklin

Delano Roosevelt, who previously held the record, signed 30 in his first month.

On today's episode, we will discuss President Biden's

executive orders and potential legal challenges to them and then we'll dive into a

broader conversation about presidential power with two of America's leading experts on the subject.

Michael McConnell is the Richard and Francis Mallory professor and director of the

Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a senior fellow at the

Hoover Institution. He previously served as a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the

Tenth Circuit and he's the author of the new book, The President who Would Not Be King, Executive Power

under the Constitution.

Michael, thank you so much for joining.

Thank you, Jeff.

And Christina Rodriguez is the Leighton Homer Surbeck,

professor of law at Yale Law School.

She is co-author with Adam Cox of the President

and Immigration Law.

She previously served as deputy assistant attorney general

in the office of legal counsel at the. Department of Justice during the Obama administration.

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