Advocates for NJ and PA
Workers & Their Families
The right to vote is a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy. However, this right is not always guaranteed and can be threatened by various forms of discrimination and suppression. In New Jersey, as in many other states, civil rights attorneys play a crucial role...
When people hear the term "service animal" they almost automatically default to a vision of a service dog. However, there are a number of other animals that provide service to the disabled. For instance, since at least the 1970s people with spinal cord and other...
Sadly and unfortunately, we're seeing more news coverage than ever before about police-involved shootings. That doesn't mean, of course, that police excess is a new phenomenon. America has experienced police excess - usually disproportionately directed at the poor,...
Or..."Well, It Turns Out America Is Great Again, But For all the Right Reasons" Not that it really should surprise anyone of conscience or common sense, but the public approval of President Trump has dropped to a historic low. Yes, he's got his "core" base of...
Or..."We're not at the new normal yet."So, a little history, first.In 1969, the police raided a popular gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village section, called the Stonewall Inn. The police claimed that the raid was based upon information that the place was...
Or..."Florida's Ignorance Continues Unabated" As a civil rights attorney, one of the areas with which we deal is discrimination in schools. Sometimes it's bullying. Sometimes it's a refusal to accommodate a disability. There are many disabilities to which students are...
Responsibility and accountability - even for the powerful - are rooted into the core of our legal system. This country's founders knew that a democracy needs a court system that empowers people to protect themselves by holding the powerful to account. That's why the...
Or: "Freedom of the Press? Under President Trump's Administration, Maybe Not The Fourth Estate - a free and open press - is critical to a free society.Trump doesn't like that. Neither do his deplorables (and that's a kind word. I use others less kind with each passing...
Or... "Our Society Depends on Educating Everyone."In 1982, the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) held that a state law allowing school districts to deny enrollment to school-age undocumented immigrants violated the Federal Constitution's Equal Protection Clause....
or... "Trump set the bar in the sewer, and then he sank below it." So, Jeff Sessions is now the new Attorney General. It's a joke, but setting that aside, there's no excuse for what transpired when Senator Elizabeth Warren, opposing Trump's horrid nomination Sessions,...
