Two cases from its recently concluded Term bring into stark relief the Supreme Court’s disrespect for both its own history and the authority of federal district courts to interpret and hold the executive accountable to the law. In Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D. (2025) and Trump v. CASA (2025), the Court demonstrated enormous and troubling deference to the Trump administration in its efforts to unilaterally impose extreme and unprecedented immigration policies. In their dissents i...| ACS
We wrapped up our 2025 National Convention Series this week. I hope everyone had the opportunity to tune in to all or some of this year’s programming and connect with our incredible speakers and each other. As our rights, institutions, and democracy are facing almost daily attacks and the most vulnerable in our country have become targets, it is critical that we find ways to stay connected and stand together as a community.| ACS
The Trump administration, both in its first iteration and its current, has consistently shown hostility toward transgender and gender non-conforming people. During the first Trump administration, this hostility was most obvious in the revocation of the Obama administration’s decision to allow openly trans people to serve in the military. In addition to a broad anti-trans executive order issued on day one, in a new executive order issued this week, the current Trump administration is once ag...| ACS