For those new to our work on how the original meaning of the Constitution (including its Amendments), as well as the proper reading of statutory text, lead to progressive results, a thread looking at briefs we @MyConstitution have filed in major #SCOTUS cases over the years...1/x We have been a leading progressive legal voice across matters facing #SCOTUS since 2008, on issues including defense of #abortion rights, marriage equality, #ACA, affirmative action, right to vote, environmental protection, against #QualifiedImmunity, and more.

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Today #SCOTUS will hear oral arguments in Torres v. Madrid to decide whether law enforcement officers who shoot and wound someone have conducted a “seizure” under the #4thAmendment if they fail to capture that person after. Read the brief CAC filed: theusconstitution.org/litigation/tor… Two New Mexico police officers wanted to question Roxanne Torres as she sat in her parked car. In the darkness, Torres feared the officers were carjackers and began to drive away.

Then the officers shot her twice in the back. theusconstitution.org/litigation/tor…

An impressive array of amicus briefs from across the ideological spectrum were filed this week in the #Mazars and #DeutscheBank cases at #SCOTUS, in support of the power of Congress to get information pursuant to its investigations. Scroll through this thread to learn more! In our brief, @MyConstitution explains the history of congressional investigations and how the Supreme Court’s precedents support broad congressional oversight power. theusconstitution.org/wp-content/upl…