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• Mukasey's Attempted Legislative End Run Around the Courts: Part II

  by Shayana Kadidal, head of the Guantánamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights [This is the second half of an article examining Attorney General Mukasey’s recent call for Congress to enact legislation governing Guantanamo detainee’s... Posted Aug 04 2008, 06:01 AM by ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society Filed under: Guest Bloggers, Constitutional Interpretation and Change, Criminal Justice, Separation Of Powers, Access to Justice

• Mukasey's Attempted Legislative End Run Around the Courts: Part I

  by Shayana Kadidal, head of the Guantánamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights [This is the first half of an article examining Attorney General Mukasey’s recent call for Congress to enact legislation governing Guantanamo detainee’s... Posted Aug 01 2008, 05:42 AM by ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society Filed under: Guest Bloggers, Constitutional Interpretation and Change, Criminal Justice, Separation Of Powers, Access to Justice

• Prof. Lawrence Lessig on Money and Politics, Clerking for J. Scalia, and the Death Penalty

  At this year’s Netroots Nation conference in Austin, Texas, Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig spoke about a new initiative he is involved in called Change Congress . The program’s goal is to “reduce the distorting influence of money... Posted Jul 22 2008, 09:08 AM by ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society Filed under: Constitutional Interpretation and Change, Criminal Justice, News And Announcements, Judiciary, Democracy and Voting

• Supreme Court Should Have Deferred to D.C.'s Legislature

  by Linda Singer, former Washington, D.C. Attorney General and partner with Zuckerman Spaeder LLP There are few surprised by the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the District's 30 year-old ban on handguns and its holding that the Second Amendment... Posted Jun 26 2008, 04:41 PM by ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society Filed under: Guest Bloggers, Bill of Rights, Constitutional Interpretation and Change, Criminal Justice

• Maiming and the Death Penalty Case

  by Doug Kendall, founder and Executive Director of Community Rights Counsel (CRC), a public interest law firm in Washington DC. He is in the process of launching a new organization, Constitutional Accountability Center , a think tank, law firm, and action... Posted Apr 23 2008, 11:16 AM by ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society Filed under: Guest Bloggers, Constitutional Interpretation and Change, Criminal Justice, Judiciary