Rule of Law

January 20, 2020

TV (BBC): CAC’s Wydra Discusses President Trump’s Impeachment Trial

BBC Beyond 100 Days

Federal Courts and Nominations

January 16, 2020

EVENT: Are We All Textualists and Originalists Now?

Host: American Constitution Society - Georgetown University Law Center

A discussion with progressive constitutional experts on how prominent textualism and originalism have become in...

Participants: Elizabeth B. Wydra, Victoria Nourse, John Mikhail, Farah Peterson

Rule of Law

January 18, 2020

Impeachment trial likely to bring twists, turns and firsts

Newsday

“[U]nlike [the late Chief Justice] Rehnquist, [Chief Justice John] Roberts may simply be unable to...

By: Elizabeth B. Wydra, By Tom Brune

Criminal Justice

January 20, 2020

Louisiana case is U.S. Supreme Court’s chance to fully eliminate non-unanimous jury verdicts, attorney says

Louisiana Record

“The framers of the Constitution understood that jury unanimity was a critical component of the...

By: Dayna Zolle, By Karen Kidd

Rule of Law

January 17, 2020

OP-ED: Trump Judges Are Playing Keep-Away With His Tax Returns and Other Financial Records

Slate

Rather than moving quickly to decide a case of national import like this one, Judge...

By: Ashwin Phatak

Civil and Human Rights

January 20, 2020

OP-ED: To fulfill Martin Luther King’s Jr’s dream, we must address police racism and brutality

Sacramento Bee (McClatchy News Service)

More than a half-century after Dr. King’s death, discriminatory policing persists. Racial profiling, time and...

By: David H. Gans