ACS Week in Review: May 5 - May 9
Stories
- Geoffrey R. Stone, University of Chicago law professor and ACS Board of Directors treasurer, examined the Framers’ views on the role of the courts.
- David Madland, director of the American Worker Project at the Center for American Progress and co-author of The Progressive Generation: How Young Adults Think About the Economy, discussed the progressive views of young adults and how those views are likely to influence labor and health care law.
- Sahr MuhammedAlly, Senior Associate with the Law and Security Program, Human Rights First reported on the Guantánamo military commission hearing for 21-year-old Omar Khadr and analyzed the hearing for Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al Bahlul.
- A humorous examination of the connection between immigration and America’s air travel, by Robert Weiner, a Washington, D.C. attorney.
- About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph. ACS has assembled resources related to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Crawford cases.
Resources
- Video from a recent ACS discussion and book signing with David Stewart, Washington, D.C. attorney and author of The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution.
- ACS materials related to the State Secrets Privilege Act, which was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
- Video from a conference co-hosted by ACS on civil rights, civil liberties and social justice.
- A report from Justice at Stake on “The New Politics of Judicial Elections in the Great Lake States, 2000-2008.”
- This week’s congressional activities.
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