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Apr29

National Immigration Law Center, MALDEF, ACLU, ACLU of Arizona to Mount Legal Challenge Against Arizona Racial Profiling Law

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 2 Comments Tags: ACLU, Alessandra Soler Meetze, Arizona, constitution, Constitutional Law, Dolores Huerta, Governor Jan Brewer, immigrants, latino, law enforcement officer, Linda Ronstadt, Linton Joaquin, maldef, National Immigration Law Center, Racial Profiling Law, Richard Chavez, SB1070, Thomas A. Saenz, tom saenz

The National Immigration Law Center, MALDEF, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the ACLU of Arizona today held a news conference in front of the Arizona State Capitol Building in Phoenix to announce their future legal challenge to Governor Jan Brewer’s recently signed SB1070. The organizations also sought to address misinformation and fears that have [...]

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Mar02

Reggie Shuford to Join EJS as Director of Law and Policy

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 0 Comments Tags: ACLU, affirmative action, American Civil Liberties Union, Ballot Initiatives, death penalty, Director of Law and Policy, educational adequacy and equity, Equal Protection Clause, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Harvard Law School, Hon. Henry E. Frye, Intent Doctrine, litigator, No-Fly List, prop 209, racial discrimination, Racial Justice Program, racial profiling, racism, Reggie Shuford, Richard Schwartz & Associates, right to counsel for indigents, school to prison pipeline, u.s. supreme court, University of North Carolina School of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law Distinguished Alumnus Award, violence in the African American community, war on terror, Ward Connerly, Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow

After an extensive search process, the Equal Justice Society today announced that we’ve hired Reggie Shuford as our new Director of Law and Policy. He’ll be joining us in mid-May. EJS has long wanted to engage in the next level of overturning the Intent Doctrine. Finding just the right Director of Law and Policy was [...]

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Aug07

President Obama Nominates Edward M. Chen for Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern California

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 0 Comments Tags: AABA, ACLU, Asian American Bar Association, dale minami, david wong, dennis herrera, dianne feinstein, edward m. chen, edwin prather, garner weng, Ismail Ramsey, President Barack Obama, russell roeca

The Equal Justice Society congratulates U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward M. Chen on his appointment by President Barack Obama to serve as a federal district court judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA) this morning issued a statement applauding President [...]

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Jul15

Press Conference and Rally for the People’s Budget Fix

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 0 Comments Tags: ACLU, Books Not Bars, budget crisis, criminal justice, Drug Policy Alliance, Ella Baker Center, Families to Amend California's Three Strikes, people's budget fix

Our friends at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights have organized a rally to propose criminal justice reforms to help solve California’s budget crisis and we encourage you to attend! The rally is at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 30, at the Elihu M. Harris State Building, 1515 Clay St., in Oakland, near the [...]

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Jun12

LGBT Legal Groups Decry Obama Administration’s Defense of DOMA

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 0 Comments Tags: ACLU, doma, GLAD, Human Rights Campaign, kate kendell, Lambda Legal, marriage equality, National Center for Lesbian Rights, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Smelt v. United States

The National Center for Lesbian Rights (EJS board member Kate Kendell is NLCR’s executive director), Lambda Legal, the ACLU, Human Rights Campaign, GLAD and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force issued a statement today objecting to the Obama administration’s recent filing in support of the a law that discriminates against LGBT. (San Francisco, CA, [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘ACLU’

National Immigration Law Center, MALDEF, ACLU, ACLU of Arizona to Mount Legal Challenge Against Arizona Racial Profiling Law

Reggie Shuford to Join EJS as Director of Law and Policy

President Obama Nominates Edward M. Chen for Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern California

Press Conference and Rally for the People’s Budget Fix

LGBT Legal Groups Decry Obama Administration’s Defense of DOMA

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