ACS Washington, DC Lawyer Chapter invites all progressive lawyers and law students to join us for trivia at Wunder Garten at 7:00 p.m. on the second Monday of every month. All are welcome!

Please join the ACLU of Illinois, ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter, Mayer Brown, and Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) for our annual Supreme Court Term in Review. We will review the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court Term and several cases, including affirmative action, LGBTQ+ rights, democracy, redistricting, the Indian Child Welfare Act, health care and our social safety net, and more. An announcement regarding the panel participants will be forthcoming.

A light lunch will be provided to in-person attendees.

We are applying for 1.5 hours of IL CLE credit for this event.

In-Person:

Mayer Brown LLP

71 S. Wacker

Chicago, Illinois 60606

Virtual: Register for Zoom link

We are applying for 1.5 hours of IL CLE credit for this event. Click here for the CLE Documentation, CLE Cert. of Attendance, Evaluation Form, and Record of Attendance.

ACS will be hosting a mandatory Student Orientation for ACS leaders on Sunday, July 30 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. PT/7:00-9:00 p.m. ET. Please send at least one student leader to attend this program. We’ll go over all the logistics of running an ACS chapter and give you an opportunity to connect with your ACS national liaison and other regional ACS leader

On June 20, 2022, when the Supreme Court issued New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, it sent shockwaves through the legal community. Bruen’s immediate effect was to strike down New York’s concealed carry permitting scheme. But Bruen also introduced a new test for gun regulations: gun laws were now presumptively unconstitutional unless the law could be shown to be “consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” The year following Bruen has seen courts grapple with how to apply Bruen’s new test, including a surprising Fifth Circuit decision to strike down as unconstitutional the federal ban on firearms possession by domestic violence offenders.

Join us for a virtual conversation with Jake Charles, an expert on the Second Amendment and professor at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, to discuss Bruen, its new test for gun laws, and how lower courts have applied Bruen’s “historical tradition” test. Moderated by Nick Kabat, Board Member of the ACS New York Lawyer's Chapter.

Reading Suggestions:

• New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).

• Jake Charles, The Supreme Court’s Big Second Amendment Decision Is Wreaking Havoc on Gun Safety Laws (Oct. 7, 2022, 11:53 AM), https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/federal-judge-strikes-down-most-of-new-yorks-concealed-carry-limits-citing-the-supreme-court.html.

• United States v. Rahimi, 61 F.4th 443 (5th Cir. 2023) (Striking down federal statute prohibiting firearms possession by domestic violence offenders).

• Jake Charles, Bruen, Analogies, and the Quest for Goldilocks History, Duke Ctr. For Firearms Law (June 28, 2022), https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/2022/06/bruen-analogies-and-the-quest-for-goldilocks-history/.

• Jake Charles, The Dead Hand of a Silent Past: Bruen, Gun Rights, and the Shackles of History, 73 Duke L.J. __, (forthcoming, 2023), available on SSRN at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4335545.

Join the ACS Virginia Lawyer Chapter at the Tobacco Company for an end-of-summer social, bringing together law students working in Richmond this summer and progressive attorneys from the Richmond area. Attendees need not be a member – bring a progressive friend to introduce them to ACS.

We will provide a credit for one drink (beer or wine) to the first 25 to arrive! There is a parking garage at the corner of 12th and Canal Street as well as across the street at the Omni Hotel.