ACS Member News: Week of December 21, 2020

ACS Board of Directors member Melissa Murray, ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Leah Litman and ACS members Fatima Goss Graves and Michele Goodwin were quoted in New York Magazine about how the fate of President-Elect Biden’s campaign promise to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court lies with the Georgia runoff election.

ACS Board of Directors member Aziz Huq authored an op-ed in The Washington Post about how President Trump’s pardons may be a good thing in that a pardoned person can no longer claim any Fifth Amendment privilege.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Steve Vladeck and ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors member Carolyn Shapiro were quoted in Law360 about how President Trump attempted to corrupt the courts and how he acted on the expectation that judges would rule in his favor.

ACS Next Generation Leader Taru Taylor authored an op-ed in Cleveland Scene about removing John Marshall from the name of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Board of Advisors member Steve Levin was quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times about his role as attorney for the families of veterans killed by COVID-19 outbreaks and negligence in a veterans’ home.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter authored an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin about the status of election-related litigation.