Civil and Human Rights
The Supreme Court Doesn’t Own the Constitution
CAC’s David H. Gans’ forthcoming article in the Stanford Law Review about the Black Conventions of the 1860s was heavily cited by Jamelle Bouie in a New York Times op-ed. Read more in the New York Times.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Following today’s decision at the Supreme Court in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia...
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WASHINGTON, DC – Following today’s decision at the Supreme Court in Chiles v. Salazar, a...
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David H. Gans joined Arnie Arnesen’s The Attitude podcast
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