Professor Chad Squitieri, CIT’s Managing Director, has a forthcoming article, The Constitutionality of Inter-Branch Appointments, accepted for publication in the Vanderbilt Law Review. Drawing on the Constitution’s text, structure, and history, the article examines the constitutionality of inter-branch appointments — situations in which an actor in one branch of the federal

CIT Director J. Joel Alicea, Director of the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Catholic Law, was part of the litigation team that filed the opening brief on Friday, August 28, in Viramontes v. Cook County, a Second and Fourteenth Amendment case the Supreme Court will hear this

CIT Managing Director Chad Squitieri has been named a recurring columnist for SCOTUSblog, where he will author a regular column examining administrative law, the separation of powers, and related topics. His debut essay, “Slaughter’s Vice,” analyzes the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Trump v. Slaughter, a case centered on the President’s removal

CIT is proud to announce its fifth class of the Aquinas Fellowship. The Aquinas Fellowship is a program for young lawyers in the D.C. area that examines the relationship between the Catholic intellectual tradition and American constitutionalism. The program consists of eight monthly seminar-like discussions conducted by leading scholars in