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Thoughts For Those At Personal and Family Risk
There will be time and time enough to understand how this has happened. But first, let us find the ways to be supportive at the personal and group level of people who are now to be put at risk through … Continue reading
Tim Kaine Calls for New Approach to Poverty — Legal Aid Implications
Remember his wife is a former legal aid lawyer and a former judge. According to the Detroit Free Press, in speech on Oct 16, Kaine: . . . outlined the campaign’s three-pillar attack on poverty, including: Raising incomes for families, … Continue reading
Posted in 100% Access Strategy and Campaign, Discrimination, Evictions, Foreclosure, Funding, Housing, Legal Aid, LSC, White House
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Harder and Harder to Separate Access to Justice and Election Politics
It is getting harder and harder to separate access to justice and politics. So I feel that it is not inappropriate to share a link to my politics and humor blog, in which I ask those Republics who might, in … Continue reading
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Thinking About a Single Quantitative Measure for Access to Justice
Recent Guidance issued by the White House to all Federal agencies on the process for estimating environmental impact, as required by law, may well point the way for how to we think about access to justice indicators, as envisioned in … Continue reading
Politico Report on Agency Planing for Next Administration Underlines Importance of Laying the Groundwork Now — But We Have to Ask
An interesting story in Politico reports that Federal agencies are continuing to move forward with regulatory-type initiatives that could only be completed in the next administration, implicitly assuming a Democratic victory. The Obama administration is seemingly so confident of a … Continue reading
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Anne Holton, VP Nominee Tim Kaine’s Wife, was a Legal Aid Lawyer for Thirteen years, and a Judge for Seven
According to Wikipedia: Following graduation from law school, Holton served as a law clerk for Judge Robert R. Merhige, Jr. of the Richmond-based United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. From 1985 to 1998, she worked as … Continue reading
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The Legal System Continues, per Ginsburg, J., To Protect the Constitutional System Against Trump
Yesterday morning the New York Times published a precedent-shattering interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Unless they have a book to sell, Supreme Court justices rarely give interviews. Even then, they diligently avoid political topics. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg takes … Continue reading
Lisa Foster’s ATJ Commissions Meeting Speech Focuses on Big Changes
Lisa Foster’s speech at the ATJ’s Commission focus not on the usual self-congratulation, but on the encourages big changes in focus and vision. While I did not travel to Chicago for the Conference this year, just the text alone conveys … Continue reading
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Council of Economic Advisors Report on Costs and Benefits of Incarceration Versus Other Approaches Incudes Excellent Arguments for Broader Impact of Access to Civil Justice
When the White House Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) speaks, the world listens. And, indeed, when the CEA issued Economic Perspectives on Incarceration and the Criminal Justice System, it was a very big deal. What was unusual was that the … Continue reading
Importance of White House Initiative, Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable, Gets Recognition in DC Bar Journal
The current issue of Washington Lawyer, the DC bar journal, contains a great article on the Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable. The article, under the title Ensuring Justice for All: The White House Plan, finally gives some public recognition to the importance … Continue reading
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Supreme Court Nominee Garland’s Perhaps Unprecedented Speech Today Highlights Access to Justice
The normal rule is that Supreme Court nominees do not give speeches or interviews to the media. But, then, the normal rule is also that the Senate does not block a highly respected and previously easily confirmed nominee a few … Continue reading
White House Forum on Access to Justice — Livestream at 1 PM Eastern Today, April 19
Today, at 1 PM, click on the link today to watch the livestream of the White House Forum on Increasing Access to Justice. https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/white-house-forum-increasing-access-justice There is an article in the American Lawyer, which describes the anticipated announcement at this event … Continue reading
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UK Supreme Court Might Be Able to Teach US Court a Lesson on Urgency of Protecting Legal Aid
Tomorrow, Tuesday the 19th, LSC and its friends will enjoy an invitation-only reception at the US Supreme Court following the LSC day at the White House, and to be addressed by Justice Kennedy, among others. It is obviously a very … Continue reading
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Thoughts For Federal Agencies and ATJ Commissions Building on the White House LAIR Meeting
I am not sure that the ATJ Community fully appreciates the scope of the implications of the recent Legal Aid Inter-agency Round-table inaugural meeting, about which I first blogged here. Nor, I suspect do all Federal agencies yet realize the … Continue reading
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