EJS Legal Director Allison Elgart and EJS Board Member Tobias Barrington Wolff, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, were among 150 leaders who went to the White House this week to share their experiences and concerns about judicial nominations with administration officials, including Attorney General Eric Holder and the president’s judicial selection team.Continue reading “EJS Legal Director Allison Elgart at White House Briefing on Judicial Nominations by Alliance for Justice”
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EJS Among Calif. Group Meeting with White House About Judicial Nominations
EJS Legal Director Allison Elgart is among a group of California community leaders traveling to Washington, D.C., on Monday, May 7, to meet with White House officials about the vacancy crisis in America’s federal courts, including the eight “emergency” vacancies and three upcoming retirements in California. Nearly one out of every ten federal judgeships remainsContinue reading “EJS Among Calif. Group Meeting with White House About Judicial Nominations”
EJS Supports Reception Honoring ICDP’s First Mission to U.S.
Allison Elgart, EJS Legal Director, attended a special reception on April 24 hosted by the Consul General of Spain in San Francisco in honor of Asunta Vivó Cavaller, the Secretary-General of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty (ICDP) on the occasion of the ICDP’s first mission to the United States. The ICDP is aContinue reading “EJS Supports Reception Honoring ICDP’s First Mission to U.S.”