ACS Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq was the featured guest on appeared on The Brian Lehrer Show where he discussed and the Trump federal indictments and his book, “The Rule of Law: A Very Short Introduction.”

Former ACS Board of Directors Member Ruben Garcia was named the Ralph Denton Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

ACS Next Generation Leader Adam Miller was selected as a Council of State Governments 2024 Class of Henry Toll Fellow.

ACS Duquesne University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Faculty Advisor  Bruce Ledewitz authored “A simple change to make the Senate great again” and “The nation's dark mood may decide the election, even though it's wrong” in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and “God and the Future of Secularism” and “We cannot let a secular fear of God-belief poison law and politics” on The OnlySky website.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Leader Daniel Cotter was selected as the recipient of the 2024 Justice John Paul Stevens Award by the National Conference of Bar Presidents.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck and ACS Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Faculty Advisor Kate Shaw were among the guests for an online, SCOTUS wrap up conversation hosted by the New York Times, called “The Justices Dropped This Bomb’: Three Legal Experts on a Shocking Supreme Court Term.”

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman and Melissa Murray co-wrote the opinion piece “From legal bribery to Trump’s immunity, a dark theme ran through the Supreme Court’s term” in the Los Angeles Times.

ACS Duquesne University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Faculty Advisor Bruce Ledewitz authored “The Supreme Court's immunity decision was good for America” in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Chicago Lawyer Chapter leader and a Next Generation Leader Jaylin D. McClinton was recently selected as the recipient of the Meritorious Service Award from the Cook County Bar Association, the nation’s oldest association of African American lawyers and judges in the country.

ACS Member Nancy Gertner wrote one of the views in the piece “Should Trump Be Sentenced to Prison? Two Opposing Views” in The New York Times.

ACS Board Member Joyce Vance was quoted by in the Newsweek article, “Supreme Court Ruling Will 'Dramatically Reshape' Balance of Power.”

ACS Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq was quoted in “US Supreme Court rejects challenge to top consumer finance agency” in The Financial Times.

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “US Supreme Court Argument Order Gives Unlucky Lawyers Less Time” in Bloomberg Law; “Nonviolent felons can’t be banned from owning guns, 9th Circuit rules” in The San Francisco Chronicle; “How the NRA has Shaped American Politics” in Scripps News; and “Uvalde families sue Meta and Call of Duty maker on second anniversary of school attack” in The Washington Post.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Ganesh Sitaraman co-authored “The bad news about your airline points” in CNN.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman was quoted in “How to save the Supreme Court from Alito’s ethical malfeasance” in The Washington Post; and “Supreme Court upholds South Carolina election maps that allegedly weakened Black voters” in Raw Story.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck appeared on Slate’s Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick for a segment on “Opinionpalooza: A Bad June Rising At SCOTUS.”; and was quoted in “Shopping for the Judge You Want Honed to Perfection in Texas” in Bloomberg Law; “Supreme Court saves consumer protection agency after a challenge from conservatives and the payday lending industry” in CNN; and “GOP Officials Are Outsourcing Their Lawsuits to a Far-Right Christian Group” in Rolling Stone.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “Tech corporations are endangering newspapers — and our democracy. This bill would help” in The Sacramento Bee; and was quoted in “Judges’ boycott of Columbia students is ‘guilt by association’” in The Los Angeles Daily Journal; and “Sacramento strikes back. DA Thien Ho’s bogus homeless lawsuit is on life support” in The Sacramento Bee.

ACS Duquesne University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Faculty Advisor Bruce Ledewitz authored “Neither party will admit the deficit crisis, because they're both guilty” in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; and “The point where protesters' free speech ends” in The Pittsburgh Post- Gazette.

Former ACS DC Lawyer Chapter leader Matthew Kaplan was nominated to serve as Federal Co-chairperson of the Great Lakes Authority.

ACS Member Nancy Gertner was quoted in “Lawmakers Dial Up Pressure on Alito to Recuse from Election Cases” in The New York Times.

ACS Member Geoffrey Stone is celebrating his 50-years of teaching at the University of Chicago Law School; and was quoted in “Will Academic Freedom and Campus Free Speech Survive?” in Inside Higher Ed.

• ACS Board Member Garrett Epps was quoted in “As Supreme Court takes up homeless ban, a city’s unhoused feel abandoned” in The Washington Post. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky was quoted in “Top Democrats won't join calls for Justice Sotomayor to retire, but they still fear a Ruth Bader Ginsburg repeat” in NBC News; and “Supreme Court slow to resolve potentially election-altering cases as justices inch toward final arguments” in CNN; and “Some California reparations bills are already facing pushback” in The San Francisco Chronicle. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Melissa Murray appeared on NPR’s Here and Now for a segment on “What the Comstock Act means for abortion access”; and The Beat With Ari Melber podcast for an episode on “Judge says "trial is starting"; and was quoted in “Top Democrats won't join calls for Justice Sotomayor to retire, but they still fear a Ruth Bader Ginsburg repeat” in NBC News; and “How Close to Death Must a Person Be to Get an Abortion?” In The Cut. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck was quoted in “Senate Leaders Look to Curb ‘Judge Shopping’ But In Different Ways” in The New York Times; and “Biden’s student loan repayment plan is being challenged. Here’s what to know” in The Boston Globe. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Ganesh Sitaraman was quoted in “‘No analogue in history’ to TikTok bill” in Politico. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Reva Siegel was quoted in “Return of the zombie abortion bills” in The Hill. 
• ACS Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Faculty Advisor Kate Shaw appeared on Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast for an episode on “Divided SCOTUS Might Let Hundreds of January 6th Rioters Off The Hook.” 
• ACS Duquesne University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Faculty Advisor Bruce Ledewitz authored “Biden must debate Trump, but not until he recants” and “Republican pro-lifers change their principles when consistency might cost them” in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 
• ACS Member Nancy Gertner was quoted in “Judge dismisses most defendants in lawsuit over migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard” in The Boston Globe. 

• ACS Board of Directors Member Franita Tolson was appointed as the new dean of the USC Gould School of Law. 
• ACS Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq authored ‘Power Used to Decisive Effect’ in Politico’s “Mitch McConnell: Hero or Villain?” 
• ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “What the First Convictions of a School Shooter’s Parents Could Mean for Gun Control in the U.S.” in Time; and “Does having a gun make a person suspicious? Courts aren’t sure now.” in The Boston Globe; and “Chicago sues Glock over switch that converts pistols to machine guns” in The Washington Post. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Melissa Murray co-authored “The Supreme Court Got It Wrong: Abortion Is Not Settled Law“ in The New York Times; and appeared on MSNBC’S Alex Wagner Tonight for a segment on “Slippery slope toward contraception restrictions seen in court backing of Texas law”; and was quoted in “France becomes first country to explicitly enshrine abortion rights in constitution” in The Washington Post; and “In Trump Cases, Supreme Court Cannot Avoid Politics” in The New York Times; and “How Arguments that Embryos Are People Pose a Threat to IVF” in Scientific American. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman appeared on MSNBC’S Alex Wagner Tonight for a segment on “Slippery slope toward contraception restrictions seen in court backing of Texas law.” 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Stephen Vladeck appeared on NPR’s Here and Now for a segment on “Supreme Court rules no state can disqualify a candidate. What does that mean?”; and NPR’s Weekend Edition for a segment on “Can Biden pass the border bill with executive powers? A law professor weighs in.”; and The Texas Standard for a segment on “The latest on Texas Senate Bill 4, which puts immigration enforcement in the state’s hands”; and was quoted in “US federal judiciary moves to curtail 'judge shopping' tactic” in Reuters. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “Amazon, Trader Joe’s and SpaceX are attempting to fundamentally change the government” and “Will the Supreme Court greatly limit speech by government officials?” in the Sacramento Bee. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Ganesh Sitaraman co-authored “How States Can Keep Big Tech from Dominating AI” in Politico. 
• ACS Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Faculty Advisor Kate Shaw co-authored “The Supreme Court Got It Wrong: Abortion Is Not Settled Law“ in The New York Times. 
• ACS Duquesne University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Faculty Advisor Bruce Ledewitz authored “What will happen if the U.S. gives up on Ukraine” in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; and “What Does Pennsylvania’s Amendment Barring Race Discrimination Actually Do?” in State Court Report. 
• ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Leader Daniel Cotter authored "How far is too far for officials to go under 1st Amendment?" in The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

• ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “Her son was a school shooter. Now, a jury will decide if Jennifer Crumbley is guilty, too.” in USAToday; in “After Illinois banned assault weapons, rural gun owners registered very few of them” in WBEZ Chicago; in “If we must rely on ‘history and tradition’ to assess gun laws, does racist history count?”; and in “California takes up White House call to toughen gun storage rules” in The Los Angeles Times. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “Opinion: How the Supreme Court should rule on Texas and Florida laws against social media moderation” in The Los Angeles Times; and was quoted in “If we must rely on ‘history and tradition’ to assess gun laws, does racist history count?” in The Los Angeles Times; and in “New ABA Rule Is a Step Forward for Free Speech at Law Schools” in Bloomberg Law. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Ganesh Sitaraman was quoted in “Flying is a nightmare. But it could be fixed.” in The Washington Post. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition for a segment on “Texas law professor says influx of migrants doesn't meet the definition of invasion.”; and was quoted in “Supreme Court reviews EPA plan to cut pollution that crosses state lines” in The Washington Post; and in “Days after Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children, a third clinic pauses IVF treatment” in CNN. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman appeared on News Nation’s Dan Abrams Live for a segment on “Frozen embryo controversy: Is Alabama making IVF illegal?”; and was quoted in “The Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law” in The New York Times. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Melissa Murray was quoted in “Alabama Says Embryos in a Lab Are Children. What Are the Implications?” in The New York Times; and in “Alabama’s IVF ruling is spotlighting the anti-abortion movement’s long game” in The Associated Press. 
• ACS Duquesne University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Faculty Advisor Bruce Ledewitz authored “Why can’t we have open immigration?” in TribLive; and “Will the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Recognize a Right to Abortion?” in State Court Report. 
• ACS Member Marisa Hernández-Stern was appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

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