The Equal Justice Society today announced that Eva Paterson, Co-founder and President, plans to retire on June 16, 2022, after more than four decades as a civil rights champion, community leader, and litigator, including 21 years leading EJS and 13 years as Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco … Continue reading EJS President Eva Paterson to Retire in June 2022
On the Rittenhouse Trial Verdict
To many of us, the jury verdict that acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse of all charges was not a surprise. We live in an America where many of have come to expect that this is how the system works: a white man armed with an AR-15 rifle can cross state lines to a town not his own, kill … Continue reading On the Rittenhouse Trial Verdict
We need lawyers to defend voters in Georgia
Earlier this year we called on attorneys to help defend our democracy by joining our National Voter Defense Network - through which individuals charged under the restrictive Jim Crow 2.0 voting rights laws would be defended for free by a legal professional. We are continuing to recruit attorneys for this project, but this time under … Continue reading We need lawyers to defend voters in Georgia
RESCHEDULED: How to Save Our Democracy
The event that was originally scheduled for Tuesday, October 12, needs to be rescheduled. The House is being called back to DC to vote next week on the recently passed Senate legislation to prevent a default on the national debt. Unfortunately, the vote has been scheduled at the time this event was supposed to take … Continue reading RESCHEDULED: How to Save Our Democracy