by Elizabeth Wydra, Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center
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May 28, 2009
by Professor Michael Anthony Lawrence, Michigan State University College of Law. The views expressed here are his own.
May 26, 2009
Today, President Obama announced that he has selected Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to be his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, replacing retiring Justice David Souter.
May 21, 2009
Not If the Supreme Court Shares Obama’s Vision of Federalism.
by Elizabeth Wydra, Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center
May 20, 2009
In a bold and sweeping policy memorandum issued today, President Obama reaffirmed the critical role that state and local governments play in our constitutional system. The President’s memorandum directs executive branch officials to review every regulation adopted in the past ten years to scrub them of inappropriate preemption language.
May 19, 2009
by David H. Gans, Director of the Civil Rights, Human Rights, and Citizenship Program, Constitutional Accountability Center
May 19, 2009
Last fall, we previewed the oral argument for Ashcroft v. Iqbal, a Supreme Court case asking whether two cabinet-level officials in the Bush Administration could be held liable for alleged constitutional violations arising out of post-9/11 detention policies.
May 15, 2009
Check out this morning's article in Slate Magazine, co-authored by CAC President Doug Kendall and Slate Senior Editor Dahlia Lithwick. Here's a preview:
Isn't it time for conservatives to turn off the phony outrage over judicial empathy, given the ways they've been successfully playing to it and capitalizing on it in recent years?
May 14, 2009
by Elizabeth Wydra, Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center
May 13, 2009
Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr., in a truly must read op-ed published Monday, calls for an “honest brawl” between Republicans and Democrats over the type of judge who should replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court. Dionne points to upcoming Supreme Court decisions as the backdrop for contrasting the judicial philosophies of conservatives and progressives: