Preparing for a Better and Brighter Future | ACS

I’m one month into my position as the brand new ACS President and I assumed this was a great alternative to achieve out to the ACS community.

Going ahead, I plan to ship a month-to-month e-mail to the community and in addition submit it right here. I’ll replace you on my efforts to go to 100 chapters throughout my first yr as President, spotlight the contributions of specific ACS members, and share my ideas on new and rising authorized theories. Some months, I would write about what’s retaining me up at evening.

In every of those emails and columns, I’ll ask you to hitch ACS, in case you’re not but a member, and to assist ACS financially, whether or not you’re a member or not. It’s not my intent to make use of these messages as an ask for donations, however the actuality is that this: For ACS to achieve its full potential, we’d like sources.

I’ll personally draft each one in all these emails (with out AI help, I would add). So whether or not you’re keen on the subject material or ship this immediately to spam, you’ll know that the content material comes instantly from me.

As we speak, I wish to focus on what we’ve seen unfold over the past month: the great and the bad.

Let’s begin with the great:

We’ve seen extraordinary individuals do extraordinary issues. Neighbors uplifting neighbors. Academics defending college students. Residents of cities underneath siege braving subzero temperatures to demand the authorized safeguards which were promised to all of us by our Structure.
We’ve seen our Minnesota Lawyer Chapter rise up for its neighborhood and the rule of regulation and chapters and members throughout the nation reply with assist and solidarity.
We’ve seen state and native elected officers stand shoulder-to-shoulder in opposition to unlawful and unconstitutional overreach by the federal authorities, defending democracy realizing they could face retaliation.
We’ve seen profession federal prosecutors and regulation enforcement officers resign, refusing to be pawns on this administration’s efforts to weaponize the justice system.
We’ve seen federal judges, appointed by presidents of each political events, say ‘sufficient is sufficient’ as they search to bolster the rule of regulation and curb the degradation of due course of.
We’ve seen celebrities and public figures use their voices and affect for good, bringing consideration to the continued assaults on our civil liberties and our constitutional rights.

However we’ve additionally seen the bad:

The administration’s ongoing assault on core American values: Democracy, the rule of regulation, and freedom.
Boldfaced lies and the proliferation of propaganda, meant in no small half to divide and distract us.
A congressional majority content material to kneecap itself, keen to remodel a coequal department right into a subservient rubberstamp for each whim of this President.
Apathy and hole statements from far too many company leaders seemingly too short-sighted to acknowledge that the breakdown of our constitutional order shouldn’t be solely antithetical to who we’re as a individuals, but additionally bad for enterprise.
A conservative majority on the Supreme Courtroom that has actively enabled this nation’s descent from its distinguished place as a beacon of alternative for individuals who search liberty and a greater lifestyle.

When confronted with these realities, it’s comprehensible and all too straightforward to lose hope. To maintain your head down. To take a look at.

Nevertheless it’s extra essential than ever to maintain the religion. To indicate up. To satisfy this second. And to arrange for a greater and brighter future.

ACS will proceed to buoy the rule of regulation, democracy, and freedom. We’ll work tirelessly to rebuild due course of and restore impartiality to our system of justice. And we are going to by no means cease striving to make this nation a extra good union. I hope you’ll be part of us on this battle.