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Constitutional Accountability Center is a nonprofit law firm & think tank dedicated to the progressive promise of our Constitution’s text, history, & values.
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WATCH LIVE: CAC President @elizabethwydra.bsky.social is joining @bloomberg.com today at 5:10 PM EST. www.bloomberg.com/live/us

What is birthright citizenship, why is it in the Constitution, and who does it apply to? Check out our FAQ, available in English and Spanish: www.theusconstitution.org/blog/birthri...

CAC WIN: the district court just held that Trump must reinstate the NLRB Member he illegally attempted to remove. Read our brief in support of NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/w...

Congress set up independent agencies to work on behalf of the American people, with deep expertise and protection from day-to-day politics. Read more from CAC's Alice Lesniak: www.theusconstitution.org/blog/the-vir...

THREAD: Trump's unlawful funding freezes will have devastating impacts in the United States and around the world. They also go against hundreds of years of constitutional history. 🧵

Trump is unlawfully defunding lifesaving refugee resettlement programs. Our brief explains why this effort is not only harmful and unwise but also blatantly unconstitutional: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/c...

ICYMI: Listen to @davidhgans.bsky.social on @constitutionctr.bsky.social's podcast explaining why Tennessee's ban on providing gender affirming medical care to transgender adolescents discriminates on the basis of sex. constitutioncenter.org/news-debate/...

#SCOTUS rejected Trump's unlawful attempt to escape complying with the order to lift the freeze on foreign assistance funding. Read our brief explaining why Trump's freeze is unlawful: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/a...

If #SCOTUS were to overturn Humphrey's Executor, it would threaten agencies that "protect America’s workers, help ensure the safety of our consumer products and regulate the civilian use of nuclear energy," as @briannegorod.bsky.social told @shermancourt.bsky.social: apnews.com/article/hump...

Before the DC district court's hearing today, read our brief explaining why Trump’s attempted firing of NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox was illegal: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/w...

Donald Trump's firing of NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox was blatantly unconstitutional. Read more about our amicus brief defending the NLRB’s constitutionality in @law360.bsky.social: www.law360.com/employment-a...

Trump's unconstitutional funding freeze will have so many devastating consequences, including cutting off access to vaccines and essential nutrition for children. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

CAC WIN: the federal district court of the District of Columbia blocked Trump's unlawful attempt to fire the chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board. Read our brief explaining why the MSPB's structure is constitutional: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/h...

Read @davidhgans.bsky.social’s exciting new research putting the “protection” back into the Equal Protection Clause: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Before the DC district court's hearing tomorrow, read our brief explaining why Trump’s attempted firing of NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox was illegal: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/w...

Birthright citizenship is protected by the Constitution and more than a century of Supreme Court precedent. Read more from CAC's experts in @huffpost.com: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

CAC WIN: the Tenth Circuit again held that the Consumer Product Safety Commission's structure is constitutional. Industry groups were attacking the CPSC after it created new rules to protect the safety of children. Read our brief supporting the CPSC: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/m...

As CAC's Praveen Fernandes explains, Trump v. US "was not a signal that the executive branch and president could do whatever they want." Read more from @paulblumenthal.bsky.social in @huffpost.com: www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...

ICYMI: CAC's @mbeckercohen.bsky.social spoke with @medillschool.bsky.social's Valerie Chu about #SCOTUS argument in Gutierrez v. Saenz: medillonthehill.medill.northwestern.edu/2025/02/scot...

"The Fourteenth Amendment Framers understood that one way to subjugate a minority was to deny them protection, including ignoring violence against them." Read more from @davidhgans.bsky.social in @washingtonmonthly.com: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/02/27/w...

The suggestion by Trump and Vance that courts cannot tell the new administration what to do is a betrayal one of our nation’s most fundamental principles. Read more from @davidhgans.bsky.social in @thehill.com: thehill.com/opinion/judi...

Watch @mbeckercohen.bsky.social on @graydcbureau.bsky.social discussing Gutierrez v. Saenz, an important #SCOTUS case about access to justice: www.localnewslive.com/2025/02/21/s...

Working on your taxes? TurboTax claimed the FTC didn’t have the authority to shut down its misleading ads. Read our brief in support of the FTC’s authority to issue cease-and-desist orders: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/i...

"The Constitution is a bulwark against Trump’s efforts to deny equal protection. The right to protection demands a government that protects Americans’ rights and personal safety." Read more from @davidhgans.bsky.social in @washingtonmonthly.com: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/02/27/w...

"The president must obey court orders. Anything else would be a constitutional affront — and deeply dangerous to our nation." Read more from @davidhgans.bsky.social in @thehill.com: thehill.com/opinion/judi...

My latest @washingtonmonthly.com on the right to protection. Our Constitution promises rights and basic safety to all Americans. But Trump is refusing to enforce civil rights laws and exposing vulnerable communities to violence and discrimination. Read: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/02/27/w...

"The 14th Amendment was meant to enforce the laws equally, not put vulnerable populations in harm’s way. But that’s what the administration is doing." Read more from @davidhgans.bsky.social in @washingtonmonthly.com: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/02/27/w...

The NLRB does vital work protecting workers, but Trump is claiming that its structure is unconstitutional. Read our brief explaining why he’s wrong: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/w...

Birthright citizenship is a constitutional guarantee. Read more from @elizabethwydra.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

"In our system of government, no officer — not even the president — is above the law." Read more from @davidhgans.bsky.social in @thehill.com: thehill.com/opinion/judi...

Drug manufacturers are arguing that the Constitution entitles them to maintain their bottom line by dictating the prices Medicare must pay. Our brief in the Third Circuit explains why that’s wrong: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/n...

CAC's @mbeckercohen.bsky.social spoke with @medillschool.bsky.social's Valerie Chu about #SCOTUS argument in Gutierrez v. Saenz, an important access to justice case: medillonthehill.medill.northwestern.edu/2025/02/scot...

Elon Musk’s company SpaceX argued that the agency investigating it for labor law violations is unconstitutional. Read our brief defending the structure of the NLRB: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/s...

The Trump administration is making the same tired, unsupported arguments against transgender servicemembers that opponents of integration in the military have always used. Those arguments are as wrong now as they’ve been in the past. www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/t...

"Our nation revolted in opposition to the tyrannical rule of a king, and our nation’s charter creates an accountable president to execute the law, not a king with unchecked power." Read more from @davidhgans.bsky.social in @thehill.com: thehill.com/opinion/judi...

"The facts of what happened on January 6 have actually been established, over and over and over again." Watch CAC's Praveen Fernandes on TRT World: www.trtworld.com/video/inside...

"If Trump were to disobey a court order or permit his subordinates to do so, he would be at war with the Constitution’s text, history and most basic values." Read more from @davidhgans.bsky.social in @thehill.com: thehill.com/opinion/judi...