Constitutional Law

ACS Week in Review: May 5 - May 9

Stories

• Geoffrey R. Stone, University of Chicago law professor and ACS Board of Directors treasurer, examined the Framers’ views on the role of the courts.
• David Madland, director of the American Worker Project at the Center for American Progress and co-author of The Progressive Generation: How Young Adults Think About the Economy, discussed the progressive views of young adults and how those views are likely to influence labor and health care law.
• Sahr MuhammedAlly, Senior Associate with the Law and Security Program, Human Rights First reported on the Guantánamo military commission hearing for 21-year-old Omar Khadr and analyzed the hearing for Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al Bahlul.
• A humorous examination of the connection between immigration and America’s air travel, by Robert Weiner, a Washington, D.C. attorney.
• About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph. ACS has assembled resources related to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Crawford cases.

Resources

• Video from a recent ACS discussion and book signing with David Stewart, Washington, D.C. attorney and author of The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution.
• ACS materials related to the State Secrets Privilege Act, which was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
• Video from a conference co-hosted by ACS on civil rights, civil liberties and social justice.
• A report from Justice at Stake on “The New Politics of Judicial Elections in the Great Lake States, 2000-2008.”
• This week’s congressional activities.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on May 09, 2008 (boomark / email).