Join us for our hybrid (In-person and Zoom), club meeting which will be held at the Peninsula Center Library, 701 Silver Spur Road, Rolling Hills Estates, California, 90274 on Sunday, June 29, 2025, at 2:30 PM.   

Joining us via Zoom at the meeting will be New York Times bestselling author and Harvard graduate Craig Unger, and voting rights attorney, Yale Law School graduate and former Thurgood Marshall law clerk Robert Weiner.

Craig Unger

Craig Unger is a New York Times bestselling author of six books on the Republican Party’s relentless, multi-pronged assault against American democracy, including "House of Bush, House of Saud;" "House of Trump, House of Putin," and the current "Den of Spies." A Harvard graduate, Unger’s journalism has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, and many others. His media commentary spans all major outlets. His extensive reporting documents a powerful case that the Republican Party has become the greatest threat to American democracy -- all done in their heedless, corrupt pursuit of power and money. At only the 100th day in Trump's second presidential term, our democracy has been severely damaged, our courts compromised, congress sidelined and in disarray, our international standing greatly diminished. How did we get here, and how can we restore American democracy in full along with our standing in the world? The acclaimed author and media commentator Craig Unger will insightfully address these questions, along with Trump’s decades as a Russian asset, Trump’s recent visit with the Saudis and more.

Robert Weiner

Robert Weiner was senior counsel in the civil rights division of the Department of Justice during the Biden administration and is now the Director, the Voting Rights Project of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He has had a long career in D.C. that included serving as president of the D.C. Bar Association and Senior Counsel in the White House Counsel’s Office during the Clinton Administration, Mr. Weiner plans to speak to us about voting rights. Years ago, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Mr. Weiner received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and his JD from Yale Law School.