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August 2011 Newsletter: Tea Partiers Attack the Constitution

July 2011 Newsletter: Progressive Visions of the Constitution

June 2011 Newsletter: Public Schools Should Reject Tea Party Efforts to Indoctrinate Youth with Bad Constitutional History

May 2011 Newsletter: Victory in Lawsuit Challenging Arizona’s Anti-Immigration Law
April 2011 Newsletter: Supreme Court Appears Sharply Divided in Public Campaign Finance Case
February 2011 Newsletter: CAC in the Supreme Court –A Victory and a New Case
January 2011 Newsletter: Victory for the Progressive Constitution
December 2010 Newsletter: VA Judge Echoes the “Constitution According to the Tea Party” in Health Care Ruling
November 2010 Newsletter: CAC Study Shows Dramatic Shift in Court Rulings in Business Cases

October 2010 Newsletter: Protecting the Constitutional Rights of Immigrants and Their Children

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Trump’s Voting Nemesis Is at the Supreme Court. We Can’t Afford for SCOTUS to Get It Wrong.

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