ACS Board of Directors Members Michele Goodwin and Melissa Murray appeared on “Biden vows to pick SCOTUS nominee before March” on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray appeared on MSNBC for a segment on “'Overdue': Melissa Murray on black woman SCOTUS nominee.” 

ACS Board of Directors Member Garrett Epps authored “The Practical Erudition of Stephen Breyer” in The Washington Monthly.  

ACS Board of Advisors Member Philippa Scarlett was quoted in “Black female judges, law students and more on what the Supreme Court nomination means to them” in The Washington Post.  

ACS Board of Advisors Member Cliff Sloan co-authored “How Congress can keep Trump and other insurrectionists out of public office” in The Washington Post. 

ACS Next Generation Leader Jaylin McClinton was awarded a 2021 Scholarship by The Diversity Scholarship Foundation.  

ACS Next Generation Leader Jessica Smith-Peterson was appointed as the Community Outreach and Voter Initiatives Chair for the Las Vegas National Bar Association.  

ACS member Toni Stone was quoted in “Supreme Court pick holds import for Black women in the law” in AP News.  

 

 

 

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray was quoted in “Pressure Mounts for Biden to Nominate a Black Woman to the Supreme Court” in TIME. 

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Leah Litman was granted tenure by the University of Michigan Law School.  

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors Member Alison Siegler authored “Shift the Paradigm on Mandatory Minimums” in the Winter 2022 Edition of the ABA Criminal Justice Magazine.  

ACS Faculty Advisor at the University of Colorado Law School Suzette Malveaux was named Moses Lasky Professor of Law, one of the school’s highest faculty distinctions.  

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “Filibuster of the filibuster: Senate rejects move to add one more to 160 exceptions” in The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and spoke about Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement on WMAQ-Chicago. 

ACS Arizona State University Student Chapter Co-President Freeman Halle received the Schiefelbein Global Dispute Resolution Scholarship. 

 

 

 

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin was quoted in “California said it would be a ‘sanctuary’ for reproductive rights. It just took a big first step” in The Lily.  

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray, ACS Board of Academic Advisors Member Leah Litman, and ACS Faculty Advisor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Kate Shaw are featured on “#WITHpod & 'Strict Scrutiny' Crossover” on MSNBC. 

ACS Faculty Advisor at Wake Forest University School of Law Kami Chavis will join the faculty as Haynes Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School.  

Former Member of the ACS State AG Project’s Advisory Committee Alvin Bragg was quoted in “Bragg’s Policy Shift Causes Furor, Though Few Cases Would Be Affected” in The New York Times.  

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “Instead of nixing OSHA vaccine mandate, court may as well be playing Pokémon Go” in The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

 

 

ACS Board of Directors Member Garrett Epps was quoted in “Some North Carolinians Think Madison Cawthorn Has a Rendezvous With the 14th Amendment” in Esquire.  

ACS Board of Directors Member Michele Goodwin appeared on “As Roe v Wade hangs on a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Ohio lawmakers pass their own abortion restrictions” on Cincinnati Edition. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Melissa Murray was quoted in “Texas’ abortion law could stay in effect for months, appeals court suggests” in the 19th News. 

Former Member of the ACS State AG Project’s Advisory Committee Alvin Bragg was quoted in “The Racists Wasted No Time Smearing Manhattan’s First Black DA” in The Daily Beast.  

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “SCOTUS brings back rocket docket for pair of vaccine mandate cases” in The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. 

ACS Board of Directors Member Garrett Epps authored “How to Fix the Senate by Essentially—Though Not Quite—Abolishing It” in Washington Monthly.

ACS Next Generation Leader Francesco Arreaga authored “The Moral and Legal Obligation to Provide Justice and Restitution to Forcibly Separated Families” in The Georgetown Law Immigration Journal.

ACS University of Wisconsin Law School Faculty Advisor Rob Yablon authored “Wisconsin Supreme Court is wrong to preserve gerrymandered electoral maps” in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors Member William Birdthistle was appointed to director of the Division of Investment Management for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored “Not the one to save us, Roberts seemingly has left the driver’s seat” In The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

ACS Member News will be taking a brief hiatus this week due to winter break. 

Happy Holidays!