Silicon Valley Democratic Club (SVDC)™

Join Us at our General Meeting

Co-sponsored with

Bay Area Iranian-American Democrats

What you need to know about the

Newsom recall

Monday, May 17th at 7:00 pm

Zoom link

Meeting ID: 960 4055 7735, Passcode: 507049

Join the Silicon Valley Democratic Club and Bay Area Iranian-American Democrats to discuss the Newsom recall effort. Our guest speakers are Brandon V. Stracener, Senior Research Fellow for the California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley School of Law and Bill James, Chair of the Santa Clara County Democratic Central Committee. The event will be moderated by Helen Chapman, AD28 Delegate and Secretary of the Santa Clara County Central Committee. You can read some of Brandon's writing on the recall here.

Meeting agenda here

Brandon V. Stracener is a Senior Research Fellow for the California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley School of Law. He writes on constitutional issues, especially issues involving the California Constitution, and California courts. Brandon has also published on issues involving the U.S. Constitution and attempts at constitutional reform in Iceland. Brandon is at times a Lecturer at Berkeley Law on Advanced Legal Writing and is an attorney in private practice. Part of his passion for constitutional law and the courts derives from clerking for the Honorable Kimberly J. Mueller, District Judge at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, and the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, District Judge at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. While in law school, he externed for the Honorable Consuelo María Callahan, Circuit Judge at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Honorable Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. These experiences sparked Brandon's interest in the approaches of different court systems and different underlying foundational law. His law school work included leading a student team comprising Berkeley Law and UC Davis Law students in revising California’s Political Reform Act.