We are delighted to share that EJS Board Chair, Priscilla Ocen, was selected as a 2018 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellow. Priscilla will use long-form journalism to push against the concept of community supervision as an antidote to mass incarceration, specifically in relationship to system-involved Black women, accompanied by photographic portraiture and community resourceContinueContinue reading “EJS Board Chair Named as a 2018 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellow”
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In new video, “Jack McCoy” implores Rosenstein not to resign
Sam Waterston implores Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein not to resign in a new video supporting the Nobody is Above the Law (TrumpIsNotAboveTheLaw.org) effort. Waterston played attorney Jack McCoy from 1994-2010 on NBC’s Law & Order television series. https://www.facebook.com/equaljusticesociety/videos/2007779656180753/ “Some might like to see you resign because they don’t like what the Russia investigationsContinueContinue reading “In new video, “Jack McCoy” implores Rosenstein not to resign”
Kavanaugh May Put Disparate Impact on the Chopping Block
Dean Erwin Chermerinsky put the fear of God into me in describing his predictions for cases a Justice Kavanaugh would overturn. Erwin predicts Kavanaugh would provide the fifth vote that would hold the use of disparate impact in Title VII and Title VIII to be an illegal use of race!! Thinking about this caused meContinueContinue reading “Kavanaugh May Put Disparate Impact on the Chopping Block”