On Wednesday, March 13 at 4 PM, join ACS at UW Law for a conversation about the Role of Economic Justice in the Progressive Legal Movement with Professor Caroline Fredrickson and Dean Daniel Tokaji. The conversation will be held in Lubar Commons (Room 7200). Light appetizers will be provided for all attendees.
Caroline Fredrickson is a Distinguished Visiting Professor from Practice at Georgetown Law and a Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. She served as the President of the American Constitution Society from 2009-2019. In 2021, she was appointed a member of the President’s Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. Fredrickson is also the leader of the Progressive Team for the National Constitution Center’s Constitution Drafting Project and a Senior Congressional Fellow at the Stennis Center. Before joining ACS, Fredrickson served as the Director of the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office and as General Counsel and Legal Director of NARAL Pro-Choice America. In addition, she served as the Chief of Staff to Senator Maria Cantwell, of Washington, and Deputy Chief of Staff to then-Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, of South Dakota. During the Clinton Administration, she served as Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs. Fredrickson is currently an elected member of the American Law Institute. She clerked for the Hon. James L. Oakes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
ACS and YLDems are excited to announce that next Tuesday the 12th from 12:10-1:10 in SLB 124 we'll be hosting three incredible voting rights lawyers from the ACLU Voting Rights Project and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to talk about their work fighting voter suppression and litigating under the Voting Rights Act, including the recent Supreme Court cases Allen v. Milligan and Alexander v. South Carolina Conference of the NAACP.
John Cusick serves as Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund where he works on voting rights and criminal legal system cases and matters. He has litigated voting rights cases nationwide, including federal lawsuits challenging penal disenfranchisement schemes, voter-registration restrictions, limited early-voting access opportunities, and other racially discriminatory policies that impede access to the ballot box for Black voters and other voters of color. He is part of litigation teams challenging racially discriminatory redistricting maps in Arkansas and South Carolina. And he has spearheaded LDF’s advocacy efforts statewide and at the county level to combat racial voter suppression tactics and led or co-led election protection efforts in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas.
Antonio Lavalle Ingram II serves as Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund where he works on voting rights and educational equity cases. He is a graduate of Yale College and UC Berkeley School of Law. He previously served as a federal judicial law clerk for the honorable Ivan L. Lemelle in the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans, Louisiana and for Chief Judge Roger L. Gregory for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. He also completed a Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship in Malawi where he worked for the Malawian government and served in their Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Davin Rosborough is a Deputy Director with the ACLU Voting Rights Project and has been part of the team since 2017. Since joining, Davin has served as the ACLU’s lead counsel in cases challenging Alabama’s 2021 redistricting maps including in Allen v. Milligan, in which the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a decision finding that Alabama likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in drawing its congressional districts. He also helps lead the challenge to Georgia’s 2021 voter suppression law, SB 202, and recently obtained a preliminary injunction against Georgia’s ban on providing food and water to voters waiting in lines longer than 150-feet from the polling-place entrance. Davin served as part of team that successfully challenged the addition of a citizenship question on the 2020 census as well as the Trump administration’s unsuccessful attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the apportionment count, acted as co-lead counsel in obtaining a preliminary injunction and favorable settlement against Missouri under the National Voter Registration Act, and helped obtain a preliminary injunction against Tennessee’s restrictive law targeting voter registration groups. He also worked to protect the right to safely vote by mail in light of COVID-19, serving as lead counsel in litigation resulting in consent decrees eliminating enforcement of Virginia’s absentee witness requirement during major 2020 elections, challenging Alabama’s restrictive mail-voting regime, and successfully opposing an attempt to eliminate drive-thru voting in Harris County, Texas.
ACS is thrilled to be hosting a special conversation with former White House Counsel Neil Eggleston about his career and service as President Obama’s White House Counsel.
Professor Eggleston has held a number of other senior government positions including Deputy Chief Counsel of the Congressional Committee that investigated the Iran-Contra Affair in 1987-1988 and Associate Counsel to President Clinton. He is now a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and teaches a course on presidential powers at Harvard Law.
Topics will include White House lawyering, presidential powers, and international crises.
Next Monday (March 11th) in SLB 122, we’re hosting a 12:10 panel/lunch talk on media lawyering and the First Amendment.
We’ll have David McCraw, who is the lead newsroom litigator for The New York Times, in conversation with Professor David Schulz, who leads the YLS Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic. Please RSVP here so we can order the right amount of food!
David McCraw has been involved litigation surrounding many of the Times’ most impactful stories, from Wikileaks to #MeToo to Donald Trump’s taxes. He also litigates all of the FOIA cases for The New York Times and serves as their crisis response manager when journalists are kidnapped/detained overseas. We expect him to discuss the challenges of high-stakes media litigation as well as the changing First Amendment landscape.
The Journal of Legislation & Public Policy is pleased to present a special live, in-person event, The State and Stakes of Judicial Ethics and Reform in collaboration with Supreme Court Forum (SCF), Law Women, and the American Constitution Society (ACS).
A keynote address from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island will be followed by a fireside chat between Senator Whitehouse and NYU Law's Professor Stephen Gillers. The pair will discuss recent controversies spanning judicial misconduct, the Supreme Court's code of ethics and ongoing reform issues, and developments in congressional oversight of the judicial branch.
This program will begin at 11:45am on Monday, March 11. Following the fireside chat, attendees are invited to a light reception.
Please fill out the interest form here by February 28 if you would like to attend the program. As space is limited, we will contact you before the program if we are able to accommodate you.
