Amanda Robert

2 weeks ago | abajournal.com | Amanda Robert

Home Web First 9 in 10 Americans think government branches… Civic Education 9 in 10 Americans think government branches should be equal, ABA poll finds Most Americans believe in the U.S. Constitution’s balance of powers, but a significant percentage of Americans want one branch of government to have more power than the others, according to the seventh ABA Survey of Civic Literacy. The survey’s results, which were released Tuesday ahead of Law Day, show that 9% do not favor co-equal branches...

3 weeks ago | abajournal.com | Amanda Robert

Home Web First ABA responds to DOJ cuts to grants supporting… Bar Associations ABA responds to DOJ cuts to grants supporting domestic violence, sexual assault survivors For nearly 30 years, the ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence has received federal funding to train and offer technical assistance to lawyers who support survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. That changed abruptly on April 10, when Maricarmen Garza received an email from the U.S. Department of Justice’s...

3 weeks ago | abajournal.com | Amanda Robert

Amid a flurry of shifts and shakeups in the U.S. Department of Justice, uncertainty shrouds the future of white-collar enforcement. “In the early months of the Trump administration, the Justice Department has been in a period of reorganization, reallocation of resources and resetting of priorities,” says Steven Fagell, the co-chair of Covington & Burling’s white-collar defense and investigations practice.

3 weeks ago | abajournal.com | Amanda Robert

Home Web First Long-running Law Day program brings students… Civic Education Long-running Law Day program brings students to Yosemite National Park For the past 12 years, eighth graders in east central California have come together to celebrate Law Day in Yosemite National Park. These students attend small schools in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains and have little access to outside educational resources, says Douglas Gordon, the co-chair of Yosemite Law Day, who helps organize...

1 month ago | abajournal.com | Amanda Robert

Home Web First ABA Center for Global Programs seeks to pivot,… International Law ABA Center for Global Programs seeks to pivot, expand work in wake of USAID cuts On Jan. 20, the ABA Center for Global Programs was prepared to provide legal and psychosocial support to the Mujeres Achí, a group of ethnic-minority women in Guatemala who endured extreme sexual violence during the country’s internal armed conflict in the early 1980s. These women are demanding justice for the acts of sexual violence...