CAC in the News

WASHINGTON, DC – Following today’s decision at the Supreme Court in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., cases in which the Court considered whether laws in Idaho and West Virginia that prohibit all transgender women and girls from joining women’s and girls’ sports teams are constitutional, Constitutional Accountability Center Director of the Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Citizenship Program David Gans issued the following reaction: The Fourteenth Amendment’s universal promise of equality was designed to end prejudicial exclusions of marginalized persons, ensuring equal citizenship stature for all.  Today, the Roberts Court’s conservative supermajority hollows out this bedrock promise, upholding discriminatory laws that...