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· May 6
12th Annual Home Stretch at the Supreme Court
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Thank you to our panelists and our guests who joined us at CAC's Home Stretch at #SCOTUS! If you couldn't watch our expert panel live, watch the recording: youtu.be/6_JF_1Z39qc
Justice Jackson is "modeling the way that the emergency docket should be used." Read more from @elizabethwydra.bsky.social in @cnn.com: www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/p...
Justice Jackson goes ‘her own way’ in Supreme Court’s SNAP fight | CNN Politics
As she oversaw President Donald Trump’s emergency Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, case this past week, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson once again proved she isn’t beholden to Supreme...
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Justice Jackson is "modeling the way that the emergency docket should be used." Read more from @elizabethwydra.bsky.social in @cnn.com: www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/p...
CAC is looking to host an externally sponsored fellow on our litigation team in the Fall of 2026. Apply now: www.theusconstitution.org/sponsored-le...
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
CAC is looking to host an externally sponsored fellow on our litigation team in the Fall of 2026. Apply now: www.theusconstitution.org/sponsored-le...
CAC is hiring legal interns for Summer 2026! If you're a law student who's passionate about the progressive promise of our Constitution, apply to join our team: www.theusconstitution.org/legal-intern...
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
CAC is hiring legal interns for Summer 2026! If you're a law student who's passionate about the progressive promise of our Constitution, apply to join our team: www.theusconstitution.org/legal-intern...
Are you a scholar who would be excited to help CAC fulfill the progressive promise of the Constitution? If so, apply to be our Scholar-in-Residence! www.theusconstitution.org/scholar-in-r...
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Are you a scholar who would be excited to help CAC fulfill the progressive promise of the Constitution? If so, apply to be our Scholar-in-Residence! www.theusconstitution.org/scholar-in-r...
CAC filed a brief in support of @aclu.org's challenge to the Trump Administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to restrain and remove Venezuelans. Our brief explains one of the reasons why President Trump’s use of the Act is unlawful: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/w...
W.M.M. v. Trump | Constitutional Accountability Center
www.theusconstitution.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
CAC filed a brief in support of @aclu.org's challenge to the Trump Administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to restrain and remove Venezuelans. Our brief explains one of the reasons why President Trump’s use of the Act is unlawful: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/w...
The ban on transgender servicemembers relies on the same tired justifications that opponents of integration in the military have always used. Read our amicus brief to the D.C. Circuit explaining why the ban is unlawful: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/t...
Talbott v. Trump | Constitutional Accountability Center
www.theusconstitution.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The ban on transgender servicemembers relies on the same tired justifications that opponents of integration in the military have always used. Read our amicus brief to the D.C. Circuit explaining why the ban is unlawful: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/t...
The Framers were deeply concerned with preventing actual and apparent corruption in government. Read our #SCOTUS amicus brief explaining why the Federal Election Campaign Act’s limits on coordinated spending by political parties are constitutional: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/n...
National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission | Constitutional Accountability Center
www.theusconstitution.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The Framers were deeply concerned with preventing actual and apparent corruption in government. Read our #SCOTUS amicus brief explaining why the Federal Election Campaign Act’s limits on coordinated spending by political parties are constitutional: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/n...
CAC is looking to host an externally sponsored fellow on our litigation team in the Fall of 2026. Apply now: www.theusconstitution.org/sponsored-le...
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
CAC is looking to host an externally sponsored fellow on our litigation team in the Fall of 2026. Apply now: www.theusconstitution.org/sponsored-le...
CAC is hiring legal interns for Summer 2026! If you're a law student who's passionate about the progressive promise of our Constitution, apply to join our team: www.theusconstitution.org/legal-intern...
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
CAC is hiring legal interns for Summer 2026! If you're a law student who's passionate about the progressive promise of our Constitution, apply to join our team: www.theusconstitution.org/legal-intern...
Are you a scholar who would be excited to help CAC fulfill the progressive promise of the Constitution? If so, apply to be our Scholar-in-Residence! www.theusconstitution.org/scholar-in-r...
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Are you a scholar who would be excited to help CAC fulfill the progressive promise of the Constitution? If so, apply to be our Scholar-in-Residence! www.theusconstitution.org/scholar-in-r...
In exercising their broad discretion over compassionate release, judges must be allowed to consider disparities between current and previously imposed sentences. Read @eeksmita.bsky.social's full reaction to today's #SCOTUS oral argument: www.theusconstitution.org/news/cac-rel...
CAC Release: Justices Assess Whether Judges Can Consider Evolving Views of Crime when Reducing Sentences | Constitutional Accountability Center
WASHINGTON, DC – Following oral argument at the Supreme Court this morning in Rutherford v. United States and Carter v. United States, consolidated cases in which the Court is considering the scope of...
www.theusconstitution.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
In exercising their broad discretion over compassionate release, judges must be allowed to consider disparities between current and previously imposed sentences. Read @eeksmita.bsky.social's full reaction to today's #SCOTUS oral argument: www.theusconstitution.org/news/cac-rel...
Justice Jackson echoed our brief to explain that Congress created the compassionate release provision to create a broad “safety valve” for sentences that, on second look, were too long. Read @eeksmita.bsky.social's full reaction to today's #SCOTUS oral argument:
CAC Release: Supreme Court’s Commitment to Text and History at Stake in Case Involving Federal Prisoners | Constitutional Accountability Center
www.theusconstitution.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Justice Jackson echoed our brief to explain that Congress created the compassionate release provision to create a broad “safety valve” for sentences that, on second look, were too long. Read @eeksmita.bsky.social's full reaction to today's #SCOTUS oral argument:
If a judge’s “disquiet” about a verdict isn’t a good enough reason to reduce a sentence under the compassionate release statute, what is? Before argument today, read our #SCOTUS amicus brief defending judges’ discretion to reduce sentences: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/f...
Fernandez v. United States | Constitutional Accountability Center
www.theusconstitution.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
If a judge’s “disquiet” about a verdict isn’t a good enough reason to reduce a sentence under the compassionate release statute, what is? Before argument today, read our #SCOTUS amicus brief defending judges’ discretion to reduce sentences: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/f...
Today's #SCOTUS case on compassionate release "could really have an impact." Watch more from @eeksmita.bsky.social: www.localnewslive.com/2025/11/11/s...
Supreme Court to hear compassionate release case
The Supreme Court is set to consider what the circumstances of “extraordinary and compelling reasons" to release a prisoner early.
www.localnewslive.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Today's #SCOTUS case on compassionate release "could really have an impact." Watch more from @eeksmita.bsky.social: www.localnewslive.com/2025/11/11/s...
If a judge’s “disquiet” about a verdict isn’t a good enough reason to reduce a sentence under the compassionate release statute, what is? Before argument Wednesday, read our #SCOTUS amicus brief defending judges’ discretion to reduce sentences: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/f...
Fernandez v. United States | Constitutional Accountability Center
www.theusconstitution.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If a judge’s “disquiet” about a verdict isn’t a good enough reason to reduce a sentence under the compassionate release statute, what is? Before argument Wednesday, read our #SCOTUS amicus brief defending judges’ discretion to reduce sentences: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/f...
Trump's argument that courts can't review his unlawful use of the National Guard is all wrong, as we explained in our amicus brief. Read more from @mjsdc.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump’s Crackdown on Portland Is Bad Enough. One Judge Has a Plan to Make It Worse.
As bad as Monday’s decision was, it could have been far worse.
slate.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Trump's argument that courts can't review his unlawful use of the National Guard is all wrong, as we explained in our amicus brief. Read more from @mjsdc.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...
If #SCOTUS rules for the Louisiana Corrections Department, it will leave Damon Landor with no meaningful remedy for an egregious violation of his religious liberty. Read more from @mbeckercohen.bsky.social: www.theusconstitution.org/news/cac-rel...
CAC Release: In Landor Case, Question of Whether Person in Prison Who Suffered Undisputed Religious Liberty Violation Has Any Meaningful Remedy Hangs in the Balance | Constitutional Accountability Cen...
WASHINGTON, DC – Following oral argument at the Supreme Court this morning in Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, a case in which the Court is considering whether an indiv...
www.theusconstitution.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If #SCOTUS rules for the Louisiana Corrections Department, it will leave Damon Landor with no meaningful remedy for an egregious violation of his religious liberty. Read more from @mbeckercohen.bsky.social: www.theusconstitution.org/news/cac-rel...
CAC is looking to host an externally sponsored fellow on our litigation team in the Fall of 2026. Apply now: www.theusconstitution.org/sponsored-le...
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
CAC is looking to host an externally sponsored fellow on our litigation team in the Fall of 2026. Apply now: www.theusconstitution.org/sponsored-le...
CAC is hiring legal interns for Summer 2026! If you're a law student who's passionate about the progressive promise of our Constitution, apply to join our team: www.theusconstitution.org/legal-intern...
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
CAC is hiring legal interns for Summer 2026! If you're a law student who's passionate about the progressive promise of our Constitution, apply to join our team: www.theusconstitution.org/legal-intern...
Are you a scholar who would be excited to help CAC fulfill the progressive promise of the Constitution? If so, apply to be our Scholar-in-Residence! www.theusconstitution.org/scholar-in-r...
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Are you a scholar who would be excited to help CAC fulfill the progressive promise of the Constitution? If so, apply to be our Scholar-in-Residence! www.theusconstitution.org/scholar-in-r...
"A right without a remedy is pretty meaningless." Read more from @mbeckercohen.bsky.social about the important religious liberty case in which #SCOTUS is hearing oral argument today: www.deseret.com/politics/202...
Supreme Court will hear religious freedom argument for former inmate
The justices will hear oral arguments Monday in a case involving the violation of religious rights while in prison
www.deseret.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"A right without a remedy is pretty meaningless." Read more from @mbeckercohen.bsky.social about the important religious liberty case in which #SCOTUS is hearing oral argument today: www.deseret.com/politics/202...
The law protected Damon Landor's religious freedom to grow out his dreadlocks, but prison employees threw the case he showed them in the trash and cut his hair. Before #SCOTUS hears argument today, read our brief explaining why Landor can seek damages: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/l...
Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety | Constitutional Accountability Center
www.theusconstitution.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The law protected Damon Landor's religious freedom to grow out his dreadlocks, but prison employees threw the case he showed them in the trash and cut his hair. Before #SCOTUS hears argument today, read our brief explaining why Landor can seek damages: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/l...
CAC is looking to host an externally sponsored fellow on our litigation team in the Fall of 2026. Apply now: www.theusconstitution.org/sponsored-le...
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
CAC is looking to host an externally sponsored fellow on our litigation team in the Fall of 2026. Apply now: www.theusconstitution.org/sponsored-le...
CAC is hiring legal interns for Summer 2026! If you're a law student who's passionate about the progressive promise of our Constitution, apply to join our team: www.theusconstitution.org/legal-intern...
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
CAC is hiring legal interns for Summer 2026! If you're a law student who's passionate about the progressive promise of our Constitution, apply to join our team: www.theusconstitution.org/legal-intern...
Are you a scholar who would be excited to help CAC fulfill the progressive promise of the Constitution? If so, apply to be our Scholar-in-Residence! www.theusconstitution.org/scholar-in-r...
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Are you a scholar who would be excited to help CAC fulfill the progressive promise of the Constitution? If so, apply to be our Scholar-in-Residence! www.theusconstitution.org/scholar-in-r...