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Statement on the End of Federal Constitutional Protections for Abortion Access
Washington, D.C. — Following Friday’s Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and thereby ending federal constitutional protections for abortion access, People's Parity Project's...
On the Air: Re-rigging the Justice System in Favor of Equity
PPP's own Tristin Brown and Steve Kennedy appeared on the Hartford Times podcast to discuss re-rigging the justice system in favor of equity. PPP's @trisquire and @skennedy2504 chatted state courts on "Make Change Happen with Steven Hernández" — check it out!...
In the News: Pro Bono Is Broken
PPP's own Steve Kennedy writes for Balls & Strikes: For firms, highlighting their pro bono work burnishes their reputations with current and prospective clients, and helps recruit lawyers and law students who hope to serve their communities while still bringing...
People’s Parity Project: Lawyers Are Destroying Our Country
If you've been following our work here at PPP, you probably knew that Roe v. Wade was never going to make it through the summer, but actually reading the leaked opinion last night was still shockingly, horrifyingly awful. Real people—largely Black, brown, and...
People’s Parity Project Statement on Leaked Supreme Court Draft Opinion Overturning Roe v. Wade
Washington, D.C. — Following Monday’s leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, People's Parity Project's Policy & Program Director Tristin Brown released the following statement: “The leaked Supreme Court...
Join Our Team: Now Hiring a State Courts Manager
[Applications for this position are currently closed.] The People’s Parity Project (PPP) seeks a creative, self-motivated, and strategic State Courts Manager to join a growing team and manage the organization’s work to build state courts that serve as venues for...
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On the Air: Re-rigging the Justice System in Favor of Equity
PPP's own Tristin Brown and Steve Kennedy appeared on the Hartford Times podcast to discuss re-rigging the justice system in favor of equity. PPP's @trisquire and @skennedy2504 chatted state courts on "Make Change Happen with Steven Hernández" — check it out!...
In the News: Pro Bono Is Broken
PPP's own Steve Kennedy writes for Balls & Strikes: For firms, highlighting their pro bono work burnishes their reputations with current and prospective clients, and helps recruit lawyers and law students who hope to serve their communities while still bringing...
In the News: Biden Turns to Lower Court Backlog After Jackson Confirmation
Madison Alder writes for Bloomberg Law about the backlog of open judicial seats as midterm elections grow closer: “While we were assured repeatedly by the White House that they wouldn’t stall lower court nominations during the Supreme Court confirmation process, we’ve...
In the News: Watching the Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearing as a Survivor of Childhood Sexual Assault
Our Organizing Director here at the People's Parity Project, Steve Kennedy, wrote for Slate about watching Judge Jackson's hearing as a survivor of childhood sexual assault: "I have rarely felt so seen by someone other than a fellow survivor as I did hearing Jackson’s...
In the News: Why Clarence Thomas’ wife is a major problem for the Supreme Court
Jon Skolnik writes in Salon: Progressive advocacy groups are calling on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from cases relating to the activism of his wife, Ginni Thomas, a prominent conservative operative whose political activities, the groups...
In the News: On the Courts, the Battle to Confirm Jackson is Only the Beginning
Trip Brennan writes for Blue Tent: “...the right-wing takeover of the courts is also a story of liberal failure. Part of that failure was an inability to recognize key differences between the right and left when it comes to building power; groups that attempted to ape...
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This past week has seen a repudiation of the court-based theory of change that has defined legal liberalism for several decades in the US: a theory that elite lawyers will always be able to use elite reasoning to persuade elite judges not to let things get out of hand.
when we said we were ready for #HotLaborSummer, we were referring to workers’ rights, not forced childbirth 🫠
(thank you to @Shut_downAmazon for showing up & see you at @PeoplesParity soon!!) https://twitter.com/scottheins/status/1540752108340641793
.@Shut_downAmazon at last night's march for abortion rights in Manhattan
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Wherever you are in your career, whatever your skill set, and wherever you live, there’s a place for you in the fight for reproductive justice.
Ending Roe is no accident.
Conservatives spent decades plotting to pack the Supreme Court & seize a right-wing majority.
Congress can fight back. They've changed Court’s size 7 times & can do it again.
Get involved to rebalance & #ExpandTheCourt:
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