{"id":2099,"date":"2008-12-30T10:36:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2008-12-30T10:36:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:36:04","slug":"the-acs-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/12\/30\/the-acs-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The ACS Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could have told you <a href=\" http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1208\/16832.html\">this was coming<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sixteen appointees and advisers helping president-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s Justice Department transition efforts all recently sat on\u00c2\u00a0the board of an organization little known outside legal circles: The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suspect we&#8217;ll hear more about this Big Liberal Plot in the coming years.  To put it kindly (and honestly), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acslaw.org\/\">American Constitution Society<\/a> (ACS) was a very late response to the conservative Federalist Society.  Like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fed-soc.org\/\">Federalist Society<\/a>, it&#8217;s not a nefarious secret conspiracy &#8211; it&#8217;s a simple organization of like-minded lawyers who believe that supporting the organization can help advance their ideas about the law and government.  I&#8217;ve been a member since the outset (2001), but haven&#8217;t participated all that much.  There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acslaw.org\/event\">lots of campus-based events<\/a>, and (in DC, at least)  ACS sponsors the occasional forum or lecture.\u00c2\u00a0 I think the last one I attended was this forum on human rights (co-sponsored with with Center for American Progress &#8211; you can view video of it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/events\/2008\/10\/hrblueprint.html\">here<\/a>, if you like).\u00c2\u00a0 ACS also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acsblog.org\/\">maintain a blog<\/a> (natch), which you might find interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 I write all that in the hope that the next time you hear about &#8220;that liberal ACS&#8221;, you&#8217;ll have some measure of reality to compare to what will almost certainly be a mythologized version of the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could have told you this was coming: Sixteen appointees and advisers helping president-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s Justice Department transition efforts all recently sat on\u00c2\u00a0the board of an organization little known outside legal circles: The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy. I suspect we&#8217;ll hear more about this Big Liberal Plot in the coming years. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-personal","category-policy","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}