For what has now become a much anticipated annual tradition, the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) hosted a conversation with a Supreme Court Justice. This year, on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, CIT welcomed Justice Elena Kagan to address faculty, students, and alumni of the Columbus
“In my inaugural entry for this column, I critiqued the Supreme Court’s reliance on an abstract conception of the “separation of powers.” Because the Constitution does not contain a “separation of powers” clause, but instead contains a collection of specific provisions that enforce the separation of powers in specific ways,
“Chad Squitieri’s Congress in the Mouth of a Lawyer is one of the most generative articles I have read this year.” With those words, Professor Jodi Short of the University of California Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) opened her review of Professor Chad Squitieri’s article, “Congress in the Mouth of a
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
Professor J. Joel Alicea, Director of the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Catholic Law, recently joined Professors Ilan Wurman and Joshua Kleinfeld on their podcast rationally BASED to discuss Viramontes v. Cook County, a Second and Fourteenth Amendment case the Supreme Court will hear this
