Analysis
Reports from 18 States Have Identified Federal Legal Services Restrictions as a Barrier to Justice
Read Access to Justice Commissions and justice planning reports regarding restrictions placed on organizations.
– 01/28/09
Experience in Other States | Supreme Court Recusal Litigation
James Sample speaking at the University of Washington School of Law on state Supreme Court elections.
Authored by: James Sample
– 11/21/08
Fact Sheet: Why We Need to Fix the Legal Services Restriction on State, Local, and Private Money
An explanation of the harms created by the federal restriction on legal services programs’ funding from state and local governments, private donors, and other non-LSC federal money.
Authored by: Brennan Center, ACLU, AFJ, CLASP, NLADA, UAW, OMB Watch
– 11/13/08
Voter Suppression Incidents 2008
A list of voter suppression incidents from the 2008 election.
Authored by: Wendy Weiser & Margaret Chen
– 11/03/08
Toward a Right to Counsel in Civil Cases in New York State (A NYSBA Report)
Adopting a report written by the Brennan Center’s Laura Abel, the New York State Bar Association champions a right to counsel in eviction and foreclosure cases and in certain unemployment insurance appeals.
Authored by: Laura Abel
– 11/01/08
Buying Time—2008: Kentucky
View ads and download storyboards from the state’s judicial election.
– 10/29/08
Buying Time—2008: Texas
View ads and download storyboards from the state’s judicial election.
– 10/29/08
Challenges to the Vote 2008
In advance of the 2008 general election, Executive Director Michael Waldman puts together the various processes by which voters are still being blocked from the polls, and what we can do about it.
– 10/20/08
Buying Time—2008: Mississippi
View ads and download storyboards from the state’s judicial election.
– 10/15/08
Buying Time—2008: Montana
View ads and storyboards for state judicial election in Montana.
– 10/15/08