In Williams v. Huner, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is considering whether a Pennsylvania prison’s failure to provide a prisoner with rigid neck and wrist braces and effective pain ...
Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC) is a nonprofit law firm and think tank dedicated to fulfilling the inherently progressive promise of the Constitution’s text, history, and values. We work in ...
WASHINGTON, DC – Following oral argument at the Supreme Court this morning in Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, a case in which the Supreme Court is considering whether oil and ...
After a Supreme Court term that gave corporations everything they wanted in the most important cases, a new term offers big business even more opportunities to evade legal constraints. At the close of ...
146 years ago today, in the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln promised the nation “a new birth of freedom,” and called on Americans to defend the Union and vindicate the ideals of the ...
The judicial history of the 14th Amendment’s “privileges and immunities” clause is unfortunately brief. The 1873 decision in the Slaughterhouse Cases—the first major interpretation of the amendment by ...
In Williams v. Huner, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is considering whether a Pennsylvania prison’s failure to provide a prisoner with rigid neck and wrist braces and effective pain ...
Citizens United v. FEC raises fundamental questions about our Constitution, and our democracy. It is with good reason that the Court’s failure to decide the case to date has received more press than ...
In an op-ed in Saturday’s Washington Post, Pastor Rick Warren claims that the contraception mandate of the Affordable Care Act violates the religious freedom of the Green family that owns the ...
CAC's Brian Frazelle spoke to The American Prospect about the Trump administration's use of interagency... Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC) is a nonprofit law firm and think tank dedicated ...
The Constitution guarantees rights for “people” and “citizens,” never once referring to protections for “corporations.” CAC advocates on behalf of the workers, consumers, and others whose ...
In a powerful and courageous op-ed in this morning’s NY Times, Ramesh Ponnuru – senior editor of the staunchly-conservative National Review – concedes the central point we at CAC have been making ...