Constitutional Law

ACSBlog in Review: Week of March 3, 2008

Stories:

• Congressional contempt citations thwarted by Mukasey.
• The government concedes a vaccine-autism case.
• Glenn Sugamelli writes about President Bush's judicial nominees.
• Judge: peremptory challenges based upon national origin are unconstitutional
• The Senate Judiciary Committee okays nominations.
• Warrantless surveillance and the Postal Service.
• Mississippi's voter purge.
• BU: No award for Mukasey.
• Treasury Department shutters 80 websites.

Resources:

• Video: state legislators on expanding voting rights.
• ACS to host briefing on the SCOTUS Second Amendment case.
• ACS Issue Brief: A Call to Protect Civilian Justice: Beware the Creep of Military Tribunals
  
• Doug Kendall: The Supreme Court term thus far.
• Upcoming conference on public-interest law at UGA.
• Advice for future law clerks.
• The ACS’s Student Chapter of the Week.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on March 07, 2008 (boomark / email).