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Registration is now open for the 10th Anniversary National Convention. Attorney General Eric Holder has been confirmed as our opening gala featured speaker. ACS has just announced a contest rewarding the lawyer chapter with the most registrants. Visit the convention page for more information.

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.

An ACS-sponsored event at the National Press Club on the slow pace of judicial confirmations featured a keynote address by White House Counsel Robert F. Bauer and an engaging discussion among a panel of experts.

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.

ACS hosted a stimulating panel discussion and keynote address by Sen. Thomas Daschle on the Affordable Care Act, its implementation, and the legal challenges leveled against it.

ACS hosted an event on corporate influence in the courts, which featured a keynote address by former New York governor Eliot Spitzer and a lively roundtable discussion, moderated by NYU Law Professor Arthur Miller.

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 published by ACS, which are cited frequently in the media and policy debates.

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.

The Oklahoma Daily drew from an article written by Oklahoma State Rep. and ACS Lawyer Chapter Leader Ryan Kiesel to make a case against a ballot initiative that challenges the individual mandate in the health care reform law.

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.