James Rucker of ColorOfChange.org today sent out an email promoting a bill in Congress that will give Katrina survivors a fair chance to rebuild their lives. But it won’t become law if enough representatives don’t stand up to support it. Three years after Hurricane Katrina, there’s finally legislation. The Gulf Coast Civic Works Act would [...]
Our friends at the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy today criticized Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey’s lack of response to the actions of several former top Justice Department officials who improperly used political criteria to fill career positions at the Department. “Attorney General Mukasey has abdicated his responsibility to ensure that the Department [...]
The Asian Law Caucus today announced that Christopher Punongbayan will be joining the Asian Law Caucus as Deputy Director in September. Chris is currently Staff Attorney at Positive Resource Center and was previously a 2004 recipient of the Ford Foundation New Voices Fellowship, serving as Advocacy Director for Filipinos for Affirmative Action. He is Vice-Chair [...]
The Equal Justice Society is accepting applications for its 2009-2010 Judge Constance Baker Motley Fellowship, named after the first African-American woman to serve on the federal bench. Applicants for the one-year paid fellowship should be recent law school graduates with zero to five years of work experience after law school. The application deadline is December [...]