ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society

Stories:

• Former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick discussed turmoil at the Justice Department, her time on the 9/11 commission, and her experience as General Counsel at the Defense Department when "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was implemented, in a podcast from the ACS student chapter at Stanford Law School.
• An expose by two bloggers who revealed that a redacted Second Circuit opinion contained allegations of coercion that occurred during an FBI interrogation related to 9/11.
• A report that reveals the U.S. terror watch list now contains 755,000 names, and that the list is now used in nearly all routine police stops and for domestic airline travel.
• A report on a study suggesting that SCOTUS is more receptive to veteran advocates, by Georgetown University Law Professor Richard Lazarus.
• The FCC plans to relax media ownership rules; a federal appeals court upheld a FCC ruling that effectively deregulated high-speed Internet services.

• A transcript of the recent ACS panel discussion on principles to guide the Department of Justice.
• An ACS issue brief addressing the growing debate over the use of foreign and international law sources by U.S. judges engaged in constitutional adjudication, by Chimène I. Keitner.
• Video from a recent ACS panel, “Voter Fraud Laws: Preventing Fraud or Suppressing the Vote?” where leading experts discussed how voter photo-ID laws impact our democracy.