• ACS Board of Directors Chair Roscoe Jones was named Dean of Drake University Law School. 
• ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler appeared on NPR’s All This Considered for a segment on “New California law restricts carrying guns in public. For now.”; and on PBS NewsHour for a segment on “2024 brings new gun restrictions in several states”; and was quoted in “Battle over California’s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines shows a nation divided” in The Los Angeles Times; and in “Wayne LaPierre: the man who remade the NRA as the ‘good guy with a gun’” in The Guardian. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky was quoted in “Cenk Uygur Fights the Natural-Born Citizen Restriction” in The American Prospect; and in “Democrats begged SCOTUS to intervene on homelessness. Could it backfire?” in The San Francisco Chronicle. 
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Stephen Vladeck was quoted in “Far Right Appeals Court Rules Against Fed Protections for Emergency Abortions” in Truthout; and in “Texas blocks feds from Rio Grande park in new escalation at border” in The Washington Post. 
• ACS Next Generation Leader Paulina Kennedy was named the National Trial Lawyers’ Association Top 40 under 40 Plaintiff’s Lawyer in Michigan. 
• ACS Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University Faculty Advisor Bruce Ledewitz authored “Freedom, democracy are here to stay — reflections on politics in 2024” in TribLive; and “Living Constitutionalism and the Faith of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” in Hallowed Secularism. 
• ACS Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Faculty Advisor Kate Shaw appeared on NPR’s Here and Now for a segment on “Carbon capture projects in Louisiana spark pushback from activists.” 
• ACS Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law Faculty Advisor Leo Yu authored “From Criminalizing China to Criminalizing the Chinese” in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. 
• Georgia Lawyer Chapter Leader Matthew Weiss was promoted to Partner at Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs. 
• Chicago Lawyer Chapter Leader Juan Thomas was named a recipient of the 2024 Spirit of Excellence Award from the American Bar Association Commission on Racial & Ethnic Diversity in the Profession. 

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• ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray appeared on MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight for segments on “Supreme Court poised to engage next phase of billionaire's conservative agenda” and “Data may be best defense against new attacks on maternal health program for Black women”; and on MSNBC’s Velshi for a segment on “Supreme Court’s SEC case ruling could ‘upend government as we know it’”; and on MSNBC’s American Voices for a segment on “Legal expert breaks down New York Times exposé on dismantling Roe.”
• Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq was quoted in “Big Tech has avoided responsibility for online content for decades. Generative AI is about to bring that to an end” in Business Insider.
• Board of Advisors Member Cliff Sloan authored “Biden should honor the woman who stood up to Japanese American incarceration” in The Washington Post.
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “The outlandish ruling that could eviscerate what’s left of the landmark Voting Rights Act” in The Los Angeles Times .
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Ganesh Sitaraman was quoted in “What Southwest’s $140 million fine tells us about the broken air travel system” in Fortune.
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steven Vladeck authored “The Supreme Court is too dependent upon its 'friends'” in MSNBC; and “January 6 Reaches the Supreme Court” in Lawfareand; and was quoted in “Pregnant women take a leading role in new legal battles over abortion” in The Washington Post. 
• ACS Next Generation Leader and Montana Lawyer Chapter Leader Rylee Sommers-Flanagan was named to Emory’s 40 under Forty list. 
• ACS Next Generation Leader and Washington State Lawyer Chapter Leader Patrick Stickney was awarded the 2023 Dennis E. Wieczorek Distinguished Service Award by the North American Securities Administrators Association. 
• ACS Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Faculty Advisor Kate Shaw appeared on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show for a segment on “SCOTUS News Roundup: Ethics and Oversight.” 
• ACS Madison Lawyer Chapter leader Jeff Mandell was quoted in "Republicans, fair maps advocates debate future of maps after redistricting lawsuit" and “Lawsuit against legislative maps filed at Wisconsin Supreme Court” in The Wisconsin Examiner; and in “Fake Donald Trump electors settle civil lawsuit in Wisconsin, agree that President Biden won” in The Associated Press.
• Former ACS Board Member the Hon. Nancy Gertner, was quoted in “After pause, this Texas city is set to reconsider banning travel to access an abortion” in The Texas Tribune. 

• ACS Board of Directors Member Ganesh Sitaraman authored “When air travel featured piano bars and champagne” in CNN; and appeared on The Politics of Everything podcast for a segment on “What’s Causing Those Airline Close Calls?”; and on The Politics Guys podcast for an episode on “Why Flying Is Miserable – And How to Fix It”; and; and was quoted in “Airport Hits Turbulence During Rapid Expansion” in Nashville Scene; and in “Thanksgiving travel from Nashville: Preparation, flights, tickets, more for holiday” in The Tennessean.
• ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray co-authored “The Conservative Supreme Court Vision That Means Inequality for Women” in The New York Times; and appeared on the Beat with Ari Melber for a segment on “Clarence Thomas scandal corners high court: New 'code' adopted over calls for reform”; and was quoted in “Things to know about efforts to block people from crossing state lines for abortion” in Associated Press.
• ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler appeared on the Bloomberg Law podcast for a segment on “Justices Ready to Uphold Gun Ban on Domestic Abusers”; and was quoted in “Macron moves to add abortion to France’s constitution, reacting to U.S.” and in “Gunmen is 7 of 2023’s Deadliest Mass Killings Showed Warning Signs” in The Washington Post.
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “Supreme Court finally has code of ethics, but it has a fatal flaw” in The Los Angeles Times; and was quoted in “Legitimacy of ‘customer’ in Supreme Court gay rights case raises ethical and legal flags” in Associated Press; and in “Democrats race to confirm judges as a firewall against a Trump ‘revenge tour’” in The Boston Globe.
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Ruben Garcia appeared on WFLX 29 for a segment on “EXPERTS: The state of labor unions with UNLV Law Professor Ruben Garcia.”
• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Stephen Vladeck was quoted in “Amid blowback over Clarence Thomas travel, Supreme Court says it will adopt first-ever code of conduct” in USA Today; and in “The Supreme Court Has Adopted a Conduct Code, but Who Will Enforce It?” in Propublica; and in “Lawmakers Slam SCOTUS’s New Nonbinding Ethics Code as “Useless” PR Stunt” in Truthout; and in “Supreme Court says Florida can’t enforce anti-drag law” in CNN; and in “Republicans Have a New Plan to Save the Supreme Court Abortion Pill Case” in Slate.
• Former ACS Board Member Linda Greenhouse authored “Will the Supreme Court Toss Out a Gun Law Meant to Protect Women?” in The New York Times.
• ACS Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Faculty Advisor Kate Shaw co-authored “The Conservative Supreme Court Vision That Means Inequality for Women” in The New York Times.
• ACS Madison Lawyer Chapter Leader Jeff Mandell was quoted in “JusticePoint continues jail alternatives work as Milwaukee tries to cancel contract” in Wisconsin Watch; and in “Oral arguments scheduled Tuesday before Wisconsin Supreme Court in state legislative maps case” in WISN 12.
• ACS New York City Chapter Member Janice Grubin was awarded the American Bar Association Commission on Gender and Sexual Orientation’s 2024 Stonewall Award.
• ACS Madison Lawyer Chapter President Steve Porter appeared on WORT 89.9FM Madison for a segment on “Youth Outreach Organizers Talk Unity and Democracy.”
• ACS Member Candice Kline was named a 2023 Top Women in Law honoree by Law Bulletin Media and Chicago Lawyer Magazine.

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• ACS Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq authored “Another profound repudiation of the Constitution’s core” in Politico; and appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition for a segment on “Harsh Interrogation Methods Raise Questions”; and was quoted in “The Supreme Court May Soon Eviscerate The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau” in HuffPost; and in “Does “And” Mean “And”? Or “Or”? The Supreme Court Will Decide” in Mother Jones; and in “Too conservative for the Supreme Court? The nation's most right-leaning appeals court draws scrutiny” in USA Today. 

 

• Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray appeared on the Café Insider podcast for a segment on “Note     From Melissa 10/12: SCOTUS Takes On the Administrative State.” 

 

• ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air for a segment on “How American Corporations Had A 'Hidden' Civil Rights Movement”; and was quoted in “The Lawyer Trying to Hold Gunmakers Responsible for Mass Shootings” in The New York Times; and in “Feinstein’s legacy: Shaping policy on gun control, water and LGBTQ rights” in The San Francisco Chronicle; and in “How the Supreme Court’s next gun case could deal a blow to originalism” in The Washington Post; and in “9th Circuit stays ruling against California ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines” in The Los Angeles Times; and in “Newsom has an ambitious plan for gun violence. It isn’t going anywhere” in Politico. 

 

• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Ruben Garcia was quoted in “Las Vegas Culinary Union strike vote: Hospitality workers gear up to walk out” in USA Today; and in “Clark County teachers inspired Nevada’s anti-strike law. They might also upend it” in Nevada Current; and in “Culinary and Bartenders Union Members Picket After ‘No Progress’ in Negotiations” in Las Vegas Weekly; and in “Culinary Union's "civil disobedience" on the Strip brings mixed reaction to the message, 58 arrests made” in KSNV. 

 

• Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “How far are the Supreme Court justices willing to go to remake constitutional law?” and “How new House Speaker Mike Johnson tried again and again to overturn Biden’s election” in The Los Angeles Times; and was quoted in “The Next Targets for the Group That Overturned Roe” in The New Yorker; and in “Major tests await conservative US Supreme Court in new term” in Reuters; and in “An unexpected check on Supreme Court’s sharp move right: Justice Kavanaugh” in The Los Angeles Times; and in “Supreme Court could drop California’s shield for doctors who mail abortion pills” in The Washington Times; and in “The Latest Target for California Conservatives? Local School Boards” in The New York Times. 

 

• ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steven Vladeck was quoted in “Abortion, guns, democracy: US rights at stake as supreme court term begins” in The Guardian; and in “Supreme Court allows Biden administration to continue fully enforcing ghost gun regulations” in CNN. 

 

• ACS Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Faculty Advisor Kate Shaw was quoted in “The justices are taking the bench Monday at the Supreme Court for the first time since June” in The Boston Globe. 

 

• ACS Los Angeles Chapter Leader Gary Rowe was appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court. 

 

• ACS Member Andrew Gilbert was selected by Law Bulletin Media as a 40 Under Forty Illinois Attorneys to Watch Honoree. 

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ACS Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq was quoted in “What Meadows' loss on moving Georgia case out of state means for Trump” in Axios. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray appeared on the Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness podcast for an episode on “What’s Happening With The Supreme Court? with Strict Scrutiny”; and was quoted in “Girlhood Is Trending, But Actual Girlhood Has Never Been More Fraught” in InStyle. 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Cliff Sloan appeared on C-SPAN's Q&A for an episode on “Q&A with Cliff Sloan.” 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “Columbus, other cities battling state legislatures in efforts to control gun violence” in The Columbus Dispatch; and in “Women’s shelter asks justices to revive law barring abusers from owning guns” in The Washington Times; and in “9th Circuit ruling threatens California ban on unlicensed open carry of handguns” and “California law removing guns from people under restraining orders survives court challenge” in the Los Angeles Times; and in “Hunter Biden is indicted on federal firearm-purchasing charges after plea deal fails” in the Associated Press; and in “How the shooting of a five-year-old girl led a US city to ban guns” in The Telegraph; and in “New Supreme Court Case a Test for Carrying Guns in Malls, Parks” in Bloomberg Law. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “San Francisco and Newsom’s targeting of judges is a threat to judicial independence” in the San Francisco Chronicle; and “When Should Government Intervene in Social Media?” in ItemLive; and “California Voice: There are limits to demanding false information be removed from the internet” in Marin Independent Journal; and “State bans on gender-affirming care for transgender minors are unconstitutional” in the Fresno Bee; and appeared on The Nation’s Start Making Sense  podcast for a segment on “Erwin Chemerinsky on Trump and Georgia”; and on Bloomberg Law for a video on “Supreme Court’s Ethical Dilemmas Began Before Clarence Thomas”; and was quoted in “Despite concerns from legal experts, Gavin Newsom pushes forward with gun control amendment” and “Tough-on-crime group says it will grade S.F. judges before 2024 election” in the San Francisco Chronicle; and in “Do students have privacy rights when it comes to their parents? It’s complicated” and “9th Circuit rules California ban on marketing guns to minors is probably unconstitutional” in the Los Angeles Times; and in “DEI statements stir debate on college campuses” in Boston Globe; and in “Red States Are Rolling Back the Rights Revolution” in the Atlantic; and in “How the Supreme Court could alter the way Americans interact on the internet” in USA Today; and in “Guns, agency power cases loom as US Supreme Court charts rightward path” in Reuters. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman appeared on the Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness podcast for an episode on “What’s Happening With The Supreme Court? with Strict Scrutiny”; and was quoted in “Kennedy’s Supreme Court legacy is being erased, in part by past clerks” in The Washington Post. 

Board of Academic Advisors Member Steven Vladeck appeared on Legal Talk Network’s Litigation Radio podcast for an episode on “What’s Up With SCOTUS? The Shadow Docket, Accountability, And Justice”; and was quoted in “Death Row Inmates Find Fewer Paths to Supreme Court Reprieves” in Bloomberg Law. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Ruben Garcia was quoted in “Las Vegas Culinary Union strike vote: Hospitality workers gear up to walk out” in USA Today. 

ACS Stetson University College of Law Faculty Advisor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy authored “How Jack Smith May Charge Trump PAC with Fraudulent Fundraising Within the Bounds of First Amendment” in Just Security. 

ACS Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Faculty Advisor Kate Shaw appeared on the Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness podcast for an episode on “What’s Happening With The Supreme Court? with Strict Scrutiny.” 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Leader Daniel Cotter authored “Terse response signals top court ethics reform is going nowhere” in Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

ACS Minneapolis-St. Paul Lawyer Chapter Leader Saraswati Singh was honored as the first recipient of the Minnesota Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s Trailblazer Award. 

Former ACS Minneapolis-St. Paul Lawyer Chapter Leader Karl Procaccini was appointed as Associate Justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court. 

ACS Minneapolis-St. Paul Lawyer Chapter Leader Chris Henjum was appointed as the Minnesota Department of Revenue’s Taxpayer Rights Advocate. 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Leader Juan Thomas was honored with the Outstanding Collaboration Award and the Meritorious Service Award by the Civil Rights and Social Justice Section of the American Bar Association. 

ACS Madison Lawyer Chapter Leader Jeff Mandell was quoted in “Fake elector launches effort to 'guard' the Constitution” in NBC News. 

ACS New York Lawyer Chapter Leader Jenny Ma was awarded the 2023 Women’s Leadership Award by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. 

ACS Member Antonio Ingram II was quoted in “Conservative Attacks on Diversity Efforts in Corporate America Keep Coming” in Bloomberg. 

ACS Member Paul Smith was honored with the Outstanding Collaboration Award and the Meritorious Service Award by the Civil Rights and Social Justice Section of the American Bar Association.  

ACS Member Timothy Perry was appointed to the California Commission on Aging. 

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ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray co-authored “One of the Most Brazen Republican Schemes Around Abortion Is Happening in Ohio” in New York Times; and appeared on the CAFE Insider podcast for segments on “Note From Melissa 7/20: Rookie of the Year”and “Note From Melissa 8/17: An Ohio August Surprise”; and on Chris Hayes’ Why Is This Happening? podcast for an episode on “#WITHpod & ‘Strict Scrutiny’ crossover”; and was quoted in “In Victory for Abortion-Rights Advocates, Ohio Rejects Effort to Make it Harder to Change State Constitution” in TIME. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq authored “Trump’s been indicted twice for trying to overturn the 2020 election. Here’s how the two cases differ” in Chicago Sun-Times; and was quoted in “Three major questions after Trump’s third indictment” in Spectrum News 1; and in “Which criminal case may be hardest for Trump to win?” in BBC News; and in “Trump attorney outlines possible Jan. 6 legal defenses, but some experts are skeptical” in ABC News; and in “The Complex Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg” in Katie Couric Media. 

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “Gun control laws in California and beyond in peril as Supreme Court expands 2nd Amendment”; and in “9th Circuit overturns butterfly knife ban, citing Supreme Court 'history' standard on guns” in Los Angeles Times; and in “Buffalo mass shooting witnesses sue gun industry, others for trauma” in Washington Post. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman appeared on Crooked Media’s What a Day podcast for a segment on “Do The Indict Thing”; and on Chris Hayes’ Why Is This Happening? podcast for an episode on “#WITHpod & 'Strict Scrutiny' crossover”; and on The Nation’s Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal podcast for an episode on “Stripping The Court Of its Power”; and was quoted in “Stymied by the Supreme Court, Biden wants voters to have the final say on his agenda” in Associated Press. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Stephen Vladeck was quoted in “Supreme Court Justice Alito Slams Congress’ Efforts To Impose Code Of Ethics On Court” in Forbes; and in “How the Texas backlash to Obama fueled the conservative drive to reinterpret the U.S. Constitution” in The Texas Tribune; and in “Was Trump indicted for everyday actions, as allies claimed? Not according to Georgia indictment” in PolitiFact. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “Despite what Sacramento DA Thien Ho might say, being unhoused isn’t a crime” in The Sacramento Bee; and appeared on The Nation podcast for a segment on “Erwin Chemerinsky on the Trump Indictment”; and was quoted in “Harvard is getting scrutinized for legacy admissions. What does this mean for Stanford and other California colleges?” in San Francisco Daily Journal; and in “Does Free Speech Protect Trump’s Election Lies?” in New York Times; and in “Could Trump's criminal cases keep him off the ballot? Here's what experts say” in San Francisco Chronicle; and in “How a California Lawyer Became a Focal Point of the Jan. 6 Investigation” in Los Angeles Times; and in “Media scholars alarmed by raid on Kansas newspaper” in Courthouse News Service. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Ruben Garcia was quoted in “What ‘work actions’ could look like for Clark County teachers as school year begins” in Las Vegas Review-Journal. 

ACS Next Generation Leader Taru Taylor authored “Biden’s Unconstitutional “Bankruptcy Abuse” Act Makes Peons of Student Debtors” in Truthout. 

ACS Caruso School of Law Faculty Advisor Christine Chambers Goodman was elected to the American Law Institute. 

ACS Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Faculty Advisor Kate Shaw co-authored “One of the Most Brazen Republican Schemes Around Abortion Is Happening in Ohio” in New York Times; and appeared on Chris Hayes’ Why Is This Happening? podcast for an episode on “#WITHpod & 'Strict Scrutiny' crossover”; and on WNYC’s the Brian Lehrer Show for a segment on “Trump Legal News Roundup.” 

ACS Houston Lawyer Chapter Leader Robert Landicho was recognized as a 2023 Law360 Rising Star in International Arbitration. 

ACS Madison Lawyer Chapter Leader Jeff Mandell was quoted in “Why haven't Wisconsin 'fake electors' been charged?” in Raw Story; and in “Gerrymandering petition filed with Wisconsin Supreme Court” in The Capital Times. 

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