ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society

Here’s some information featured on the ACS Blog over the past week:

• Two recent presidential nominations for the 4^th Circuit drew bipartisan criticism while Judge Leslie Southwick’s nomination continued to encounter opposition from a variety of observers.

• Jack Goldsmith and Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage released books criticizing the expansion of executive power under the Bush Administration.

• Georgetown law professor and award-winning author David Cole critiques the Bush administration's "war on terror” in his new book Less Safe, Less Free.

• Video of Colonel Dwight Sullivan stating, "by any objective measure, the military commission system has been a complete failure.”

• ACS released a comprehensive index of presidential signing statements, compiled by Neil Kinkopf. 

• A federal judge struck down part of the Patriot Act and required that investigators get court approval before ordering Internet providers to turn over confidential records.

• The Urban Justice Center announced an award to provide seed money for a project serving underrepresented populations.

• A native Texan was jailed, “missed her children's first day of school and feared being deported after authorities mistook her for an illegal immigrant.”

• Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics reported that the White House web site was changed to indicate that the Office of Administration is not subject to FOIA requests.

• Former senior DOJ official Jack Goldsmith criticized executive overreach in his new book, The Terror Presidency.

• A lawsuit filed in the 9th Circuit seeks to stop an Administration-backed pilot program that would allow Mexican-domiciled trucks to gain access to U.S. roadways and thus violate U.S. law.

• Several immigration-advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit to prevent the Department of Homeland Security from enforcing a rule that would terminate employees based upon errors in the government’s Social Security database.

• American Rights at Work published the annual Labor Day List: Partnerships that Work.