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Over our 10 year history, ACS has become a "powerful institution that's helping to shape the law." Hear what Sen. Tom Daschle, Sen. Al Franken, White House Director of Domestic Policy Melody Barnes, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Gov. Deval Patrick and others have to say about where we have been, where we are and where we are going.

The O'Reilly "No-pology Tour" continues. Fox News' Bill O'Reilly needs to learn that a real apology cannot start with "I'm not really sorry." It's time he accepts that ACS President Caroline Fredrickson was right, and he was wrong about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. He can keep his promise, replay the clip, and honestly "apologize for being an idiot."

The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg (video), Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (video), U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa (video), Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Richard Cordray, California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu (video), and others spoke in Washington, D.C., June 14-16, 2012, at the ACS National Convention.

Keeping Faith with the Constitution, a common-sense approach to constitutional interpretation by Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan, and Christopher Schroeder originally published by ACS, recently was republished by Oxford University Press and continues to generate media coverage.

As the U.S. Supreme Court's reviewed the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, ACS provided coverage, commentary and analysis. Read about the news and developments on ACS's Affordable Care Act Resource Page and ACSblog.

How will the election year affect the confirmation of judges to the federal bench where vacancies are already high? Stay up-to-date with statistics, analysis, and coverage of congressional action at JudicialNominations.org and ACSblog.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in Citizens United v. FEC overturned decades-old precedent for federal regulation of corporate campaign finance. Watch video of a panel discussion exploring how the decision may impact the upcoming election. 

To address persistent failures to fulfill the promise of Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), ACS has launched an initiative to strengthen the federal role in improving the indigent defense system.

Former acting solicitor general Walter Dellinger brought the Constitution to life at Ross Elementary School as part of ACS’s Constitution in the Classroom program, which sends lawyers and law students to public schools around the country.

Senator Al Franken delivered a powerful critique of the Roberts Supreme Court and criticized efforts to scuttle the Obama administration's nominations to the federal courts and administration positions.

ACS has created a web page featuring the latest news, legal filings, videos, and other resources relating to the Affordable Care Act and state efforts to challenge it. Among those resources are two Issue Briefs (here and here) published by ACS, which are cited frequently in the media and policy debates.

In an effort to illuminate the federal judicial selection process, ACS has partnered with the HNBA, Justice at Stake, NAPABA, NAWJ, NBA, NCAI, and the National LGBT Bar to produce The Path To The Federal Bench.

A study on the growing challenges to employment discrimination plaintiffs in federal courts, published in the official journal of the American Constitution Society, was spotlighted by Sen. Patrick Leahy during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Many key figures in the Obama administration have engaged with the ACS network, either having been ACS leaders and members, worked with ACS chapters, or spoken at ACS events.

The Akron Beacon Journal editorial board draws from an ACS Issue Brief by Lisa Heinzerling, a Georgetown Law professor and former senior Environmental Protection Agency official, to combat claims that government regulation inhibits economic growth.