Liberals and the NRA have found common cause in a pending supreme court case.
When the constitutional accountability Center launched in 2008, it looked like just another liberal legal-advocacy group, dedicated to “fulfilling the progressive promise of our Constitution’s text and history.” The causes it has backed run the standard liberal gamut: among other things, the group supports California’s efforts to regulate carbon emissions and pushes for “robust due-process protections for immigrant criminal defendants.” So if you were told that the CAC had filed an amicus brief in McDonald v. Chicago, a case about gun control to be argued before the Supreme Court this week, you might think it was siding with Chicago, whose restrictions on gun ownership are being challenged.