ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society

Highlights from ACSBlog over the past week:

• Wayne State University Law School professor Jocelyn Friedrichs Benson published an ACS Issue Brief entitled: Towards Full Participation: Solutions for Improvements to the Federal Language Assistance Laws. 
  
• ACS also recently released the first comprehensive index of presidential signing statements issued by the Bush Administration.  It was compiled by Professor Neil Kinkopf, author of a prior ACS Issue Brief on Signing Statements and the President's Authority to Refuse to Enforce the Law, released last year.
• Dahlia Lithwick commented on the proper role of a modern attorney general at Slate.
• Doug Kendall of the Community Rights Council argued that the proposed California referendum to proportionately allocate the state's electoral votes is unconstitutional.
• The DOJ banned all religious books in prisons, except for those specified on a secret list.
• Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe wrote about the President's strategy of "picking presidential lawyers to fill court vacancies," and Dahlia Lithwick at Slate suggested that "The fight to fill judicial vacancies grows even weirder."