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California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a consumer alert reminding California’s tenants and homeowners of their rights and protections amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The Attorney General recognizes that families across the state may be facing difficulty affording rent and mortgage payments, including as the result of layoffs, reduced working hours, and other economic impacts of…

The current right-wing Supreme Court majority is one of the greatest threats to racial justice and equity in recent American history, a new report from Take Back the Court and the Equal Justice Society argues. The six conservative justices’ judicial philosophies and jurisprudence on matters of race threaten progress on a wide range of racial…

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, along with the Equal Justice Society and 75 other groups, on Dec. 15 issued the following statement on the need for President-elect Joe Biden to name an attorney general of the United States and other senior leadership of the U.S. Department of Justice who have strong records…

“Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, as well as judges nominated by previous Republican presidents, are responsible for the vast majority of the decisions that have resulted in voter suppression and made it nearly impossible to regulate political spending” Senate Democrats today released a new report outlining the ways campaign finance laws and the right to vote have been gradually dismantled by…

A group of Obama Administration cabinet officials are joining the fight to level the playing field in California by endorsing Proposition 16. Former Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar,  Education Secretaries Arne Duncan and John B. King Jr., and United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice  announced their support…

The coalition, founded by Be A Hero Fund, Demand Progress, Equal Justice Society, Free Speech For People, and Women’s March, argues that any Trump nomination to the Supreme Court this year would be illegitimate and calls on senators opposed to this nomination to use all procedural powers to block it.

The Yes on Proposition 16 campaign announced today that the California Chamber of Commerce (CalChamber) endorsed Proposition 16, the ballot measure to end California’s ban on affirmative action programs.

New reporting Thursday found that Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, signed a 2006 letter openly opposing abortion and calling for the overturning of Roe v. Wade.