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 underContinue 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 takeContinue reading "RESCHEDULED: How to Save Our Democracy"
Calif. Dept. of Education Ignores Clear Patterns of Discrimination in School Discipline
A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on October 6, 2021, by NLSLA, Equal Justice Society, and pro bono counsel Mayer Brown LLP seeks to force the California Department of Education to increase monitoring of discipline data, expand reporting requirements to account for transfers, and investigate and address discriminatory discipline. Even as publiclyContinue reading "Calif. Dept. of Education Ignores Clear Patterns of Discrimination in School Discipline"