Blog Archive | Constitutional Accountability Center

My fellowship experience at CAC has been deeply rewarding. Over the course of the fellowship, I’ve had the opportunity to research and draft amicus briefs on major cases before the Supreme Court and lower federal courts of appeals. The issues have ranged widely, from state sovereign immunity to arbitration, international human rights to environmental law, to immigration. But ...

This past year has been tumultuous, to say the least, but CAC has risen to meet the challenges of the moment while still moving forward on other core issue areas. I have learned a tremendous amount during my time as a Kendall Fellow with CAC, but of the many words I could use to describe my fellowship, one keeps coming back to me: steadying. Amidst the dizzying barrage of law...

My time as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at CAC began and ended with Supreme Court cases with major consequences for our multiracial democracy. A few months before I started, voting rights litigators obtained significant victories at the Court that upheld bedrock protections for the right to vote. But threats to voting rights lingered, and two years later, on the last week of...