The legal blogosphere was abuzz yesterday with the (as it turns out) false report that Justice Antonin Scalia, during an appearance at the University of Arizona College of Law, stated that had he been on the Court in 1954 he probably would have dissented from the majority opinion in Brown v.

by David H. Gans, Director of the Human Rights, Civil Rights, & Citizenship Program, Constitutional Accountability Center

Yesterday, the House Financial Services Committee began marking up the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2009, a key component of President Obama’s proposal to overhaul regulation of the financial services sector. In its current form, the Act would create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (or CFPA) that works in conjunction with states to detect and prevent predatory and fraudulent financial and credit schemes. However, many in the Committee, led by Rep.

Today, in the pending Supreme Court case of Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection (08-1151), Constitutional Accountabilty Center (CAC), along with the State and Local Legal Center, filed an amicus brief in support of the respondent on behalf of state and local government organizations.