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More than 950 law scholars from around the country have signed on to a bipartisan letter decrying President Trump’s slew of illegal executive orders and actions. Christopher Wright Durocher talks with principal author and coordinator of the letter Kent Greenfield about what prompted these scholars to speak out and where this crisis may lead.

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Host: Christopher Wright Durocher, Vice President of Policy and Program

Guest: Kent Greenfield, Professor and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar, Boston College Law School 

Link: More than 950 Law Scholars Sound Alarm on Constitutional Crisis

Link: “We Believe We Are in a Constitutional Crisis”: Law Professors and Law Teachers Stand Against Administration's Illegal and Unconstitutional Actions 

Link: Why Shouldn’t the President Be Able to Fire Who He Wants in the Executive Branch?, by Shirin Ali

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Perhaps more than any other issue, harsh immigration enforcement has defined President Trump’s political career. Since returning to office, the President has moved to end birthright citizenship, authorized ICE to raid schools and churches, and announced plans for mass detention centers on Guantanamo. Professors Ana Raquel Minian and Amanda Frost join Taonga Leslie to help us make sense of the raft of anti-immigrant actions and what they mean for our civil and constitutional rights more broadly.

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Host: Taonga Leslie, Director of Policy and Program for Racial Justice

Guest: Ana Raquel Minian, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University

Guest:  Amanda Frost, David Lurton Massee, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

Link: Immigrant Defense Project

Link: Welcome.US

Link: How to Talk About Immigration in Divisive Times, by Beth Hallowell

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From the January 6th attack on the Capitol to recent assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump, political violence and intimidation pose a growing threat to our democracy. Taonga Leslie brings an excerpt from a recent ACS program co-hosted by Giffords Law Center and March for Our Lives featuring a discussion among advocates and legal scholars on the causes of rising political violence, the stakes of the 2024 election, and how progressives can support positive change.

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Host: Taonga Leslie, Director of Policy and Program for Racial Justice

Guest: Joseph Blocher, Lanty L. Smith ’67 Distinguished Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law

Guest: Makennan McBryde, Legal Project Manager, Giffords Law Center

Guest: Mary McCord, Executive Director, Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, Georgetown University Law Center

Guest: Yvin Shin, Legal Associate, March for Our Lives

Link: "Guided By History: Protecting the Public Sphere From Weapons Threats Under Bruen," by Joseph Blocher and Reva Siegel

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Link: Election Protection Sign-Up

Link: Election Official Legal Defense Network Sign-Up

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In America, it is a fantasy to believe that people accused of a crime will have their case decided by a jury of their peers. The reality is that most convictions are achieved through plea bargains controlled by prosecutors. Is there a way to unwind this broken system of fast-tracked convictions? Christopher Wright Durocher speaks with Dan Canon, author of the book Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class, about the unjust practice of plea bargaining and how we fix it.

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Today's Host: Christopher Wright Durocher, Vice President of Policy and Program

Guest: Dan Canon, Author of "Pleading Out"

Link: "Pleading Out" by Dan Canon

Link: "Criminalizing Race: Racial Disparities in Plea-Bargaining," by Carlos Berdejó

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On this episode, Jeanne Hruska is joined by the co-authors of the new book, "The Constitution in Jeopardy," Russ Feingold and Peter Prindiville to discuss a dangerous effort by factions of the Right to radically rewrite the U.S. Constitution. Russ and Peter explain why more attention needs to be paid to this effort and why we need a "new kind of Constitutional politics" in this country.

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Today's Host: Jeanne Hruska, ACS Sr Advisor for Communications and Strategy

Guest: Russ Feingold, ACS President and co-author of "The Constitution in Jeopardy"

Guest: Peter Prindiville, Non-Resident Fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center and co-author of "The Constitution in Jeopardy"

Link: The Constitution in Jeopardy

Link: Article V of the Constitution

Link: "A Second Constitutional Convention? Some Republicans Want to Force One," by Carl Hulse, NYT

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On this episode, we discuss sex, gender identity, and the Constitution. That's because we are talking about the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and the argument that it is already the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. Lindsay Langholz is joined by Kate Kelly, author of "Ordinary Equality," to discuss the ERA’s long journey, the women and queer activists who kept the project going for so long, and why their work and their fight are still relevant today.

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Today's Host: Lindsay Langholz, ACS Director of Policy and Program

Guest: Kate Kelly, Author of Ordinary Equality

Link: Ordinary Equality, by Kate Kelly

Link: Russ Feingold's Letter to Congresswoman Maloney Regarding the ERA

Link: Columbia ERA Project

Link: "State-Level Equal Rights Amendments," by the Brennan Center

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This is a call to action! The U.S. Senate is back in session this month, and inevitably it has competing priorities between now and the end of the year. That's where this episode comes in. Jeanne Hruska speaks with Russ Feingold, President of ACS, and Zack Gima, Vice President of Strategic Engagement at ACS, about why the Senate should prioritize judicial nominations, how it can do that, and how listeners can help ensure it happens.

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Today's Host: Jeanne Hruska, ACS Sr Advisor for Communications and Strategy

Guest: Russ Feingold, ACS President

Guest: Zack Gima, ACS Vice President of Strategic Engagement

Link: U.S. Senate switchboard: 202-224-3121.

Link: Senate Judiciary Committee members

Link: Contact ACS about our Path to the Bench Project: PathtotheBench@acslaw.org

Link: ACS's Tracker of Federal Judicial Nominations

Link: Diversity of the Federal Bench

Link: "It’s Time for Democrats to Play Hardball to Thwart Mitch McConnell," by Russ Feingold

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As we head back to school and in honor of Labor Day, Lindsay Langholz speaks this week with Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, about the myriad of new state laws censoring what teachers can say in the classroom, the resurgence of book bans by school districts, and the broader, purposeful effort to toxify public education.

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Today's Host: Lindsay Langholz, Director of Policy and Program

Guest: Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO

Link: AFT's Take Action Resources

Link: "Who is Behind the Attacks on Educators and Public Schools?" by Edward Graham, NEA

Link: AFT Unveils Report on Teacher and School Staff Shortages

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It has been nearly two months since the Supreme Court released its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, overturning Roe v. Wade and throwing the issue of abortion rights to the states. On this episode, Lindsay Langholz speaks with Professor Mary Ziegler about how the aftermath of Dobbs is playing out in the states. What does Kansas say about how abortion might fare in other states and what are the emerging trends as more lawsuits are filed and state courts deliberate over old and new state laws?

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Today's Host: Lindsay Langholz, Director of Policy and Program

Guest: Mary Ziegler, Martin Luther King Jr Professor of Law, UC Davis

Link: "Dollars for Life," by Mary Ziegler

Link: "Anti-Abortion Groups Once Portrayed Women as Victims. That’s Changing." by Mary Ziegler

Link: "Opinion: The coming state-federal showdown over abortion," by Mary Ziegler and Elizabeth Sepper

Link: "No, Justice Alito, Reproductive Justice Is in the Constitution," by Michele Goodwin

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People with disabilities are the largest minority group in the United States and represent a vital voting constituency that is often overlooked. In recent years, several states have enacted voter suppression measures in the name of "election integrity," which disproportionately impact people with disabilities. Evan Monod speaks with Lia Sifuentes Davis, Clinical Professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, about how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is being used to challenge these restrictive state voting laws and what it means to make democracy accessible.

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Today's Host: Evan Monod, ACS Law Fellow

Guest: Lia Sifuentes Davis, Clinical Professor, University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Link: The Americans with Disabilities Act and Other Federal Laws Protecting the Rights of Voters with Disabilities

Link: “New Texas Voting Law Brings on Federal Lawsuit Asserting Violation of ADA and More”

Link: “Court Strikes Down Texas Law Restricting Voter Assistance”

Link: “Disability and Voting Accessibility in the 2020 Elections”

Link: VIDEO: "Voting and the Disability Community: Progress Made and Needed”

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