Fulfilling the progressive promise of the Constitution’s text and history
Our Latest Work
CAC Release: Peddling Historical Myths, Roberts Court’s Conservative Supermajority Overrides 150 Years of Precedent and Practice By Curtailing Agency Independence
CAC Release: Supreme Court Rebukes Fifth Circuit, Affirms State Authority to Permit Post-Election Receipt of Mail Ballots
CAC Release: Supreme Court Misunderstands Immigration Law—and the Presumption of Extraterritoriality—in Decision about Asylum-Seekers at the Border
CAC Release: Supreme Court’s Conservative Supermajority Undermines Important Right Created by Congress
CAC Release: Supreme Court Decision on Excessive Fines Clause Reaches the Wrong Result, But Gets the Standard Right
CAC Release: In Deeply Disappointing Decision, Supreme Court Ignores Ordinary Meaning of Statute and Denies Victims of Torture Their Day in Court
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Our Latest Cases
CAC pursues a litigation strategy unique among progressive legal organizations by relying on the Constitution’s text and history. Our powerful amicus briefs provide invaluable arguments to Supreme Court Justices, legal scholars, and fellow advocates. Our clients include current and former bipartisan Members of Congress, state and local officials, law professors, and various nonprofit organizations. CAC’s efforts help to secure important legal victories in the Supreme Court, lower federal courts, and state supreme courts.
Cisco Systems v. Doe
In Cisco Systems v. Doe, the Supreme Court considered, among other questions, whether the Torture Victim Protection Act imposes liability on those who aid and abet torture.Read MorePung v. Isabella County
In Pung v. Isabella County, the Supreme Court is considering whether the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment is implicated when a local government seizes real property to satisfy…Read MoreLandor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety
In Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, the Supreme Court is considering whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for…Read More
From Our Think Tank
Forgotten Framers: Black Conventions and the Second Founding
79 Stan. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2027)Read MoreMoneyed Interests Still Prevail at the Supreme Court (2024-2025 Term)
The Court Continues to Favor Corporations over Workers, Consumers, and the Environment.Read MoreMoore v. Harper, Evasion, and the Ordinary Bounds of Judicial Review
66 B.C. L. Rev. 1295 (2025)Read More
CAC produces scholarship showing that the Constitution’s text and history command progressive results. We publish comprehensive accounts of some of the most important and contentious topics in modern constitutional and federal law through issue briefs, white papers, insights, and our think tank series. Our legal experts also inform public discussion around these topics by giving written and oral testimony in congressional committee hearings.