ACS Member News: Week of December 16, 2019


ACS Board member Aziz Huq, ACS Faculty Advisor at Florida State University College of Law David Landau, and ACS member Tom Ginsburg co-authored an article in the Los Angeles Times about how impeachment in comparative democracies has helped renew democratic systems.

ACS Board of Advisors member Nancy Gertner appeared on MSNBC to discuss impeachment.

ACS Board of Advisors member Reva Siegel co-authored an article in Time about Trump’s anti-abortion and anti-immigration policies.

ACS Board of Advisors members Geoffrey Stone and David Strauss were interviewed in SCOTUSblog about their new book, Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court.

ACS Next Generation Leaders Conchita Cruz and Zachary Manfredi and helped file a lawsuit challenging the weaponization of the United States’ immigration court system.

ACS Next Generation Leader Mohammed Alam was featured on WHCR 90.3 FM.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors member Alison Siegler’s ATF stash-house litigation strategy was cited in The Washington Post.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors members Cindy Hyndman and Carolyn Shapiro were mentioned in Law360 and the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin in relation to a ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter event about the gender disparity of attorneys appearing before the Supreme Court.

ACS Los Angeles Lawyer Chapter Co-Chairs Nathan Hardy and Richard Jolly authored an article in the Los Angeles Times about the need to ask about the courts in the next Democratic debate.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Candice Kline helped secure a victory in the Sixth Circuit on behalf of her client the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel, seeking to protect Ohioans from having to subsidize coal plant costs.

ACS Assistant Director of Chapters Jordan Blisk received the Colorado LGBT Bar’s President’s Service Award.

ACS member Samuel Bagenstos has been named the Chair of the Michigan Employment Relations Commission.

ACS member Alycia Sykora was interviewed in The Bend Source about her new role as a judge in the Deschutes County Circuit Court.

ACS member Jay Willis authored an article in GQ about Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell wanting to kill the senate impeachment trial as quickly as possible.