ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society

Stories

• Testimony on secret law by ACS Board Member Dawn Johnsen before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution.
• Reports on Colonel Morris Davis’ testimony and Salim Ahmed Hamdan’s boycott of the military commission system, by Deborah Colson, Senior Associate in the Law and Security Program at Human Rights First, who reported from Guantánamo Bay.
• An op-ed by attorney Al Meyerhoff suggesting that the Senate should not confirm any judicial nominees until the next president takes office.
• A study found new connections between the race of the defendant and the likelihood of receiving a death sentence.
• Coverage of Justice Scalia’s many recent media appearances.
• An examination of the Supreme Court’s decision upholding an Indiana law requiring voters to present government issued identification, by Justin Levitt, counsel, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.

Resources

• An ACS Issue Brief on religious expression in public schools, summarized by its author, Edward Correia, a Washington, D.C. attorney and adjunct professor at the Washington College of Law at American University.
• A post about the launch of Fair Housing for All, a national organization for fair housing attorneys, by its founder, ACS member Professor Craig Durian.
• Materials and analysis related to the recent Supreme Court decision regarding requiring government issued voter IDs.
• This week’s congressional activities.