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Senator Mike Lee: Constitutional Charlatan
With friends like Senator Mike Lee, the Constitution needs no enemies.
Constitutional Showdown over the Voting Rights Act: D.C. Circuit Hears Shelby County v. Holder
On January 19, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit debated the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act’s preclearance requirement, one of Act’s most important and successful provisions, which was renewed by a near unanimous Congress in 2006 and signed into law by President...
VACANCY CRISIS UPDATE: 80+ Vacancies, 936 Days and Counting
When the Senate returns for session on January 23rd, there will have been more than 80 vacancies on the federal bench for 936 straight days, dating back all the way to July 2009.   Outside of a completely anomalous period when Congress established 85 new judgeships in 1990, never before has the...
Revisiting the Constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act: D.C. Circuit To Hear Shelby County v. Holder — Oral Argument Preview
On Thursday, January 19, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral argument in one of the most important civil rights cases pending in the federal courts,Shelby County v. Holder, a case with nationwide ramifications for the right to vote and for our democracy.  
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Obama Judicial Nominees in Limbo

For over a year now, CAC has documented the U.S. Senate’s  unprecedented obstruction of President Obama’s judicial nominees — under the direction of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).  Read why this obstruction has...

CAC in Court

Constitutional Accountability Center chooses the best cases to bring our ideas about the Constitution into court and secure victories in the U.S. Supreme Court, state supreme courts, and federal courts of appeal that move the law closer to the text and history of our Constitution. 

 

Originalist Sins

Conservative Justices like Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas get a great deal of criticism (from the left) and praise (from the right) for being “originalists” and committing to follow the “original meaning” of the Constitution’s text.  Constitutional Accountability Center comes at this debate...

Strange Brew: How the Tea Party Distorts the Constitution

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Text & History Blog

Senator Mike Lee: Constitutional Charlatan
Doug Kendall, Doug Pennington, Ryan Woo
February 1, 2012

With friends like Senator Mike Lee, the Constitution needs no enemies.

Constitutional Showdown over the Voting Rights Act: D.C. Circuit Hears Shelby County v. Holder
David H. Gans
January 20, 2012

On January 19, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit debated the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act’s preclearance requirement, one of Act’s most important and successful provisions, which was renewed by a near unanimous Congress in 2006 and signed into law by President George W. Bush.

VACANCY CRISIS UPDATE: 80+ Vacancies, 936 Days and Counting
Neil Weare
January 19, 2012

When the Senate returns for session on January 23rd, there will have been more than 80 vacancies on the federal bench for 936 straight days, dating back all the way to July 2009.   Outside of a completely anomalous period when Congress established 85 new judgeships in 1990, never before has the number of vacancies risen so sharply and remained so high for so long during a President’s term.