ACS Member News: Week of June 6, 2022

ACS Board of Directors Member Garrett Epps was quoted in “Thank the 1970s for today’s Supreme Court” in The Hill.      

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin was quoted in “Doulas & Midwives Can Help Latina Moms Reclaim Ancestral Birthing Practices” in HipLATINA.  

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “What Is an AR-15 Rifle, Exactly?” in The Trace.   

 ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky authored “Supreme Court imposes further restrictions on habeas corpus” in ABA Journal.    

 ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck was quoted in “No Way Out: Supreme Court Disempowers 6th Amendment Defense” in Psychology Today.   

 ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman was quoted in “The Supreme Court should try to catch the leaker. But that won't fix what's broken” in The Los Angeles Times.  

 ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board Member Dan Cotter authored “Speaking of SCOTUS: The draft leak, the wife, the memo, the Confederacy” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.    

ACS State AG Project Council of Advisors Member Terri Gerstein authored "Students need to know reading, writing and their rights at work” in MSNBC. 

ACS University of Alabama School of Law Faculty Advisor Joyce Vance was quoted in “Donald Trump Seems Pretty Panicky About That Criminal Investigation In Georgia!” in Vanity Fair.   

 ACS Georgetown Law Faculty Advisor Alicia Plerhoples authored “Free speech can’t trump every other value on campus” in The Washington Post.      

 ACS Harvard Law School Faculty Advisor Nikolas Bowie co - authored “The Supreme Court Is Not Supposed to Have This Much Power” in The Atlantic.  

 ACS Member Maritza Perez was named a 2022 LatinoJustice Latina Trailblazer by LatinoJustice PRLDEF. 

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ACS Member News: Week of May 30, 2022

ACS Board of Directors Member Garrett Epps authored “The Supreme Court and the Originalist Fallacy” in Washington Monthly.   

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin appeared on Democracy Now for a segment on “Policing the Womb”: Law Professor Michele Goodwin on SCOTUS, Anti-Abortion Laws & the New Jane Crow.”  

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “Trump’s judges are coming for California gun laws. Can we stop them?” in Los Angeles Times.   

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky was mentioned in “After the Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade, what’ll it do for an encore?” in Los Angeles Times.   

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman was quoted in “‘Trust’ at the Supreme Court? The court’s self-destruction continues.” in The Washington Post.  

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board Member Dan Cotter authored “Cruzin’ toward oblivion — some rights are more equal than others, court says” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.   

ACS State AG Project Council of Advisors Member Terri Gerstein was quoted in "Commerce Fraud Bureau to get new powers to investigate wage theft, other financial crimes” in Minnesota Reformer.      

ACS University of Alabama School of Law Faculty Advisor Joyce Vance was quoted in “Intensifying Inquiry Into Alternate Electors Focuses on Trump Lawyers” in Vanity Fair.       

ACS Member Jarrett Adams was featured in “His clients were acquitted of murder. Why did they get life sentences?” in The Atlantic.  

ACS Member Joel Goldstein was quoted in “Kamala Harris wants to get out of D.C. more. But she literally can’t.” in Politico.    

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ACS Member News: Week of May 23, 2022

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin was quoted in “U.S. House Judiciary Committee debates abortion in advance of landmark court ruling” in Idaho Capital Sun.  

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray authored “How the Right to Birth Control Could Be Undone ” in The New York Times.  

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Erwin Chemerinsky was mentioned in “Berkeley Law announces program to offset tuition, fees for Native American students” in The Daily Californian. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck was quoted in “Supreme Court makes it more difficult for prisoners to argue they had ineffective counsel” in CNN.   

ACS Academic Advisor Member Leah Litman authored “The Supreme Court Just Gutted Another Constitutional Right” in Slate and was quoted in “Legal Analysts Blast Supreme Court Ruling Denying Prisoners Who Were Incompetently Represented in State Courts Access to Federal Courts to Prove Innocence, Constitutional Violations” in Death Penalty Info.  

ACS Next Generation Leader Jaylin McClinton received award for outstanding pro bono and community service leadership at the 2022 Public Interest Awards ceremony of Chicago-Kent College of Law.  

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board Member Dan Cotter authored “Cruzin’ toward oblivion — some rights are more equal than others, court says” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

ACS Arkansas Little Rock Faculty Advisor Joshua M. Silverstein authored “Not from thin air” in Arkansas Online.    

ACS University of Alabama School of Law Faculty Advisor Joyce Vance was quoted in “Intensifying Inquiry Into Alternate Electors Focuses on Trump Lawyers” in The New York Times.      

 

 

ACS Member News: Week of May 16, 2022

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin authored “The New Jane Crow” in The Atlantic.  

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray was quoted in “A Leaky Supreme Court Starts to Resemble the Other Branches” in The New York Times.  

ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Steve Vladeck was quoted in “Big Tech just took its Texas fight to SCOTUS” in Protocol.  

ACS Arkansas Little Rock Faculty Advisor Joshua M. Silverstein authored “Constitutionally, the right to abortion isn’t something made of nothing” in Chicago Tribune.  

ACS Chicago-Kent Faculty Advisor Carolyn Shapiro was quoted in “Supreme Court’s reputation tarnished after abortion opinion leak in The Washington Times.   

ACS Washington DC Lawyer Chapter Board Member Marissa Ditkowsky was selected as a 2022 Brandeis Bold 9 Alumni by Brandeis University Alumni Association.  

ACS Dallas Fort-Worth Lawyer Chapter Board Member Marwa Elbially was quoted in “Controversy Over Headlock Caught on Camera at Coppell Middle School Campus” on NBC 5 Dallas Fort-Worth.  

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board Member Dan Cotter authored “This is not acceptable conduct: Protest if you want, but leave justices in peace” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

ACS State AG Project Council of Advisors Member Terri Gerstein authored “Adding salary ranges to job listings stops people from wasting their time” in NBC News.   

ACS Stanford Co-President Tessa Silverman and ACS Harvard Co-President Oliver Ma co-authored “Why will abortion rights tumble? Because conservatives built a well-oiled machine” in USA Today.  

ACS Member Kelsi Brown Corkran made remarks at a press conference honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor, the first two women appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.  

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ACS Member News: Week of May 9, 2022

*Trigger Warning: The piece below discusses sexual abuse and violence. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin appeared on Democracy Now for a segment on ““I Was Raped by My Father. Abortion Saved My Life”: Prof. Michele Goodwin on SCOTUS & the New Jane Crow.”   

ACS Board of Directors Member Aziz Huq was quoted in “Supreme Court teed up for major decisions over next two months” in Roll Call.    

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray was quoted in “Roe established abortion rights. 20 years later, Casey paved the way for restrictions” in NPR.  

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “Nostalgic for the 1860s? Then You’ll Love Alito’s America” in Mother Jones. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Erwin Chemerinsky was quoted in “Law School Dean Lashes Out At D.C. Bar Seating Plan As 'Likely Unconstitutional” in Above The Law.    

ACS Academic Advisor Member Leah Litman was featured on “The Supreme Court, secrecy and public trust” on Radio Times, Whyy’s Podcast. 

ACS Indiana University Maurer School of Law Faculty Advisor Steve Sanders was quoted in “IU legal scholar says overturning Roe would be groundbreaking” in Indiana Public Media.     

ACS Chicago-Kent Faculty Advisor Carolyn Shapiro was quoted in “Former Supreme Court law clerks worry Roe leak could sow distrust among justices and staff members” in NBC News.  

ACS University of Alabama School of Law Faculty Advisor Joyce Vance was quoted in “What falls after Roe? Liberals warn of a privacy rights nightmare” in Politico.  

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board Member Dan Cotter authored “High court’s right to privacy violated? Truly a conundrum of a penumbra” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

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ACS Member News: Week of May 2, 2022

ACS Board of Directors Member Garrett Epps authored “Alito’s Arrogance and the End of Roe” in Washington Monthly. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin appeared on Democracy Now for a segment on “The End of Roe v. Wade: Leaked Opinion Shows Supreme Court Is Set to Overturn Abortion Rights.”  

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray was quoted in “Alito’s Plan to Repeal the 20th Century” in The Atlantic and co-authored with Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman, “Alito’s aggressive ruling would reach way beyond Roe” in The Washington Post.  

ACS Board of Advisors Member Adam Winkler was quoted in “Leaker of Alito’s draft opinion could face criminal prosecution: legal experts” in New York Post.   

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Steve Vladeck was quoted in “Measuring the legal and political fallout from potential SCOTUS decision on Roe v. Wade” on CBS Austin. 

ACS Indiana University Maurer School of Law Faculty Advisor Steve Sanders was quoted in “VERIFY: What we know about the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion” in WTHR.    

ACS Chicago-Kent Faculty Advisor Carolyn Shapiro appeared on TMZ for a segment on “Supreme Court Overturning Abortion Rights.” 

ACS University of Alabama School of Law Faculty Advisor Joyce Vance appeared on MSBNC for a segment on “What Does the Leaked Supreme Court Draft Opinion Actually Say? 

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board Member Dan Cotter authored “Saying goodbye: Thank you for decades of service, Justice Breyer” in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.   

ACS Georgia Lawyer Chapter Leader Matthew Weiss was named an honoree of the Daily Report’s 2022 Georgia Legal Awards.