Professor Henry L. Hecht is donating $50,000 through The Henry L. Hecht Family Fund to help fund a new Staff Attorney position at the Equal Justice Society. Prof. Hecht is the Herma Hill Kay Lecturer in Residence at Berkeley Law. He has provided significant support for several of EJS’s implicit bias conferences, numerous annual galas,ContinueContinue reading “$50,000 Donation from Henry L. Hecht to Support New EJS Staff Attorney Position”
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New Report: The Supreme Court Is a Grave Threat to Racial Justice and Racial Progress
The current right-wing Supreme Court majority is one of the greatest threats to racial justice and equity in recent American history, a new report from Take Back the Court and the Equal Justice Society argues. The six conservative justices’ judicial philosophies and jurisprudence on matters of race threaten progress on a wide range of racial justice issues.
EJS Joins Cross-partisan Coalition Urging Congress to Disqualify Trump from Future Office
The Equal Justice Society on February 18 joined more than a dozen legal and advocacy organizations in urging Congress to disqualify Donald Trump from holding future federal office. Although the Senate failed to convict Trump due to procedural disagreements, Section Three of the 14th Amendment would allow Congress to hold him accountable for inciting theContinueContinue reading “EJS Joins Cross-partisan Coalition Urging Congress to Disqualify Trump from Future Office”