ACS Member News: Week of August 2, 2021

ACS Board of Directors Member Franita Tolson was quoted in “Thomas Jefferson Gave the Constitution 19 Years. Look Where We Are Now.” in The New York Times. 

 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Nancy Gertner was quoted in “Miriam Conrad, longtime federal public defender, is retiring. She took on tough cases, including Boston Marathon bomber Tsarnaev” in The Boston Globe.   

 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “Mexico sues U.S. gunmakers, arguing they have fueled bloodshed” in CBS News.   

 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “Supreme Court opens door for dark money by striking down California campaign disclosure law” in The Sacramento Bee.   

 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck was quoted in “Mike Pompeo says he doesn't know what happened to the missing $5,800 bottle of whiskey gifted by Japan” in The Week. 

 

ACS Next Generation Leader Taru Taylor authored “Critical Race Theory, revisited - can we at least stipulate to the facts of our history?” in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.   

 

ACS Next Generation Leader Seth Zawila was named an “Up & Coming Attorney” in the Minnesota Lawyer.   

 

ACS Co-Faculty Advisor at Marquette University Law School Atiba Ellis appeared onThe Docket: The Rise And Fall Of The Voting Rights Act Of 1965on the NPR Politics Podcast. 

 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “Commission opens talks on expanding SCOTUS bench” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

ACS Member News: Week of July 26, 2021

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray appeared on MSNBC’s American Voices for a segment on “Trump’s impact on Supreme Court on display as Mississippi asks Court to overturn Roe V. Wade.” 

 

ACS Board of Directors Member Franita Tolson was quoted in “Vaccine mandates and personal liberty can coexist” in The Napa Valley Register.  

 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “Don’t exempt religious objectors from vaccine mandates” in the Los Angeles Times.  

 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Jamal Greene was quoted in “Can Affirmative Action Survive?” in The New Yorker.  

 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck was quoted in “Abortion rights face most difficult test yet at Supreme Court” in The Hill.  

 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “Commission opens talks on expanding SCOTUS bench” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

ACS Member News: Week of July 19, 2021

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray was quoted in “Overturn Roe v. Wade? Conservative divisions could signal narrower outcome in abortion case” in USA Today.

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “Permitless-Carry Laws Make It Easier to Pack Heat in Red America” in Bloomberg Businessweek.

ACS Board of Advisors Member Christopher Kang was quoted in “Supreme Court lawyers tell Biden’s commission they oppose packing the court” in The Washington Times.

ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky was quoted in “With Trump appointees, 9th Circuit suffers another year of reversals at Supreme Court” in The Columbian.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck appeared on “How do you solve a problem like the shadow docket?” on SCOTUSblog’s SCOTUSTalk podcast.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “Guns, abortion, and noise on high court’s fall docket” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

ACS Member Rick Hasen was quoted in “How America lost its commitment to the right to vote” in Vox.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACS Member News: Week of July 12, 2021

ACS Board of Directors Member Ruben Garcia was quoted in “How despite losing multiple rulings, Station keeps fending off a Culinary contract” in the Nevada Current.  

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray was quoted in “Voting Rules Tighten Across Nation” in USA Today.  

ACS Board of Advisors Member Daniel Tokaji was quoted in “Democrats try to regroup after sweeping election overhaul failed” in The Washington Examiner.  

ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky was quoted in “Supreme Court's ruling on disclosing charitable contributions could leak into campaign finance law” in The San Francisco Chronicle; and in “With Trump appointees, 9th Circuit suffers another year of reversals at Supreme Court” in The Los Angeles Times.   

ACS Board of Advisors Member Geoffrey Stone was quoted in “Despite his blindness, D.C. Appeals Court Judge David Tatel spent nearly 30 years influencing American life” in The Washington Post. 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Dawn Smalls was quoted in “Judge Halts Homeless Hotel Transfers Until City Accommodates Residents With Disabilities” in City Limits. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck was quoted in “A governor can send the National Guard out of state. Can a wealthy donor?” in The Washington Post. 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “40 years in the making: Roberts’ long fight against Voting Rights Act” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

ACS Washington DC Lawyer Chapter Leader Maritza Perez appeared on “Senate Democrat leaders' new marijuana legislation faces uphill battle” on Fox Business.

ACS Member News: Week of July 5, 2021

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray was quoted in “The End of the Term Proved This Is Not a Restrained, Moderate Supreme Court” in Slate. 

 ACS Board of Directors Member Daniel Goldman was quoted in “What the Weisselberg indictment could mean for Trump” in The Week. 

 ACS Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq was quoted in Key cases on politics expose 6-3 divide on Supreme Court” in USA Today.  

ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky was quoted in “Five takeaways from the Supreme Court's term” in The Hill. 

 ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck was quoted in Trump’s Supreme Court shrinks from controversy” in Politico.   

ACS Faculty Advisor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Kate Shaw appeared on What We Learned From This Supreme Court Term on the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast. 

 ACS Next Generation Leader Taru Taylor authored “How Qualified Immunity Subverts the Rule of Law” in the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Blog.  

 ACS Member Rick Hasen was quoted in “U.S. Supreme Court weakens federal voting protections” in The Triangle Tribune, and in “Delayed election results present a boon to confusion and conspiracy theories” in Yahoo News. 

 ACS member Antonio Ingram authored “Opinion: Critical race theory opponents are targeting an imaginary foe” in The Mercury News.

ACS Member News: Week of June 28, 2021

ACS Board of Directors Chair Peter Karanjia was quoted in “Judge appears skeptical about Florida’s new social media law” in the Tampa Bay Times; and in Judge Weighs Constitutionality Of Social Media Law” in CBS Miami. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray appeared on “’That new Biden smell.’ (with Sen. Bernie Sanders!)” on Pod Save America. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq was quoted in “Perspective: Why constitutional originalism is not partisan” in the Deseret News.  

ACS Board of Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky was quoted in “Justice Thomas warns of 'unstable' pot policy as SCOTUS denies Denver dispensary's appeal” in The Gazette. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman and ACS Faculty Advisor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Kate Shaw were quoted in “This Supreme Court guards the First Amendment — and neglects the Fourth” in The Washington Post. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck was quoted in Supreme Court Gives Victory to Transgender Student Who Sued to Use Bathroom” in CNN.   

ACS Faculty Advisor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Kate Shaw was quoted in “Supreme Court defies critics with wave of unanimous decisions 

in ABC news.  

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “SCOTUS starts its push to the finish with flurry of opinions in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.  

ACS Member Rick Hasen was quoted in “Georgia Runoffs Kept McConnell From 'Frontally Attacking' Trump's Election Fraud Claims: Report” in Newsweek.