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The Court’s Conversion Therapy Decision Endangers LGBTQ+ Youth
Enforcing bans on LGBTQ+ “conversion” practices against talk therapy may be unconstitutional after the Supreme Court ruled that such therapy is robustly protected under the First Amendment. The Supreme Court held on March 31, 2026 in Chiles v. Salazar that, as applied to licensed therapists engaged solely in talk therapy, Colorado’s ban on the practice […] T
The Supreme Court’s Systemic Failure to Recognize the Rights of Children Is Glaring in the Chiles Decision
In American law, whether judicial or legislative, children are often treated as the backdrop and ignored when decisions are made, even when those decisions directly target them. They are rarely treated as independent actors with fundamental constitutional rights in society. Instead, children’s rights are either subordinated to adults’ rights or disappear int
Courts Matter: What We Can Learn from Callais and the Virginia Redistricting Case
How the Senate Should Use the AG Nomination to Reclaim Congress’s Authority
The views expressed on the Expert Forum are those of the authors writing in their personal capacity. The views presented do not represent the American Constitution Society or its chapters. A new study explores how, a decade ago, Senator Chuck Grassley forced the Trump White House to abandon a misguided Justice Department legal opinion in […] The post How the