John C. Bonifaz (born 22, June 1966) is a Boston-based attorney specializing in constitutional law and voting rights, and founder of the National Voting Rights Institute. He is currently a board member at the Access Strategies Fund, a Massachusetts foundation promoting electoral reforms to increase the participation of underserved communities in politics. He received a MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the "genius award", in 1999.
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John C. Bonifaz (born 22, June 1966) is a Boston-based attorney specializing in constitutional law and voting rights, and founder of the National Voting Rights Institute. He is currently a board member at the Access Strategies Fund, a Massachusetts foundation promoting electoral reforms to increase the participation of underserved communities in politics. He received a MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the "genius award", in 1999.
In February and March 2003, Mr. Bonifaz served as lead counsel for a coalition of US soldiers, parents of US soldiers, and Members of Congress in John Doe I v. President Bush, a constitutional challenge to President Bush’s authority to wage war against Iraq absent a congressional declaration of war or equivalent action. He argued that the President’s planned first-strike invasion of Iraq violated the War Powers Clause of the US Constitution. The lawsuit was initially dismissed in February 2003 and in March 2003 the dismissal was upheld on appeal....
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