Farah Peterson Named to Brennan Center’s Historians Council on the Constitution

Brennan Center Introduces the Historians Council on the Constitution

January 17, 2024 Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law

Today the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law announced the formation of the Historians Council on the Constitution, a group of historians who will work with Brennan Center attorneys to counter the U.S. Supreme Court’s misuses and mischaracterizations of history to decide major constitutional issues.

“The Supreme Court is increasingly relying on what it calls ‘history’ to make key constitutional decisions. But the Court’s sole reliance on the past distorts how we read the Constitution and govern our country. And too often the history is simply wrong or misleading. We created the Historians Council to stem the tide that the Supreme Court has unleashed and to reverse it,” said Thomas Wolf, organizer of the Historians Council and deputy director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center. “We’ll correct the record when bad history emerges, but our bigger aim is to change the conversation about how history matters to the law.”