http://www.abanow.org ABA Media Relations & Communication Services Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:01:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Violence Against Women Act was an effective response by Congress in 1994 to the devastating effects of domestic and sexual violence. The act has evolved from a small criminal justice initiative to a multidisciplinary federal effort to address the needs of women, men and children threatened by domestic and ... http://www.abanow.org/2012/02/a-critical-tool-to-save-lives-vawa/ This op-ed by former U.S. Attornrey General Edwin Meese and ABA President Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III appeared on Fox News January 16, 2012. The Founding Fathers separated our government into three co-equal branches by design, with each, at times, checking the other branches and holding them to their limited purpose. Alexander ... http://www.abanow.org/2012/01/our-liberty-depends-on-funding-our-courts-so-they-can-protect-all-of-us/ This op-ed by U.S. Chamber President Lisa Rickard and ABA President Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III appeared in USA Today January 4, 2012. In 2009, the chief justice of New Hampshire's Supreme Court felt compelled to take an extreme step to keep the state's wider court system running. The poor funding ... http://www.abanow.org/2012/01/why-underfunded-courts-hurt-all-americans/ This op-ed by ABA President Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III appeared in The Des Moines Register December 21, 2011 Abolish courts. Ignore rulings. Impeach judges. These are just a few of the ideas Newt Gingrich has suggested to win over the Republican voters in Iowa. But his headline-grabbing proposals represent ... http://www.abanow.org/2011/12/gingrich-is-wrong-on-judges/ Funding provided through the Legal Services Corporation is the only way millions of Americans can bring their civil cases—child support and custody decisions, foreclosures, and veterans’ benefit disputes, for example—to court. Congress must weigh the need to shrink our nation’s burgeoning budget deficit against the fundamental need of low-income citizens to ... http://www.abanow.org/2011/11/statement-of-wm-t-bill-robinson-iii-president-american-bar-association-re-legal-services-corporation-fy12-funding/ WASHINGTON, D.C., July 20, 2011 – American Bar Association President Stephen N. Zack has responded to Common Cause President and CEO Bob Edgar regarding his letter of July 6 urging the ABA to issue a public statement concerning whether certain U.S. Supreme Court justices have engaged in activities in violation ... http://www.abanow.org/2011/07/american-bar-association-responds-to-common-cause-letter-regarding-judicial-code-of-conduct/ WASHINGTON, D.C., April 29, 2011 —The end of the school year is coming, but grades are already in for the state of American civics education. And it’s not good news.  A recent report from the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation on state history standards says bluntly that, a “majority of states’ ... http://www.abanow.org/2011/04/time-for-america-to-stop-flunking-civics-ed-op-ed-by-aba-president-stephen-zack/ Federal court administrators should be praised for planning to keep the courthouse doors open in the face of a possible government shutdown. But it’s wrong to force the courts to dig into budgets set aside for other services simply to stay operational. And, if the shutdown drags on, the impact ... http://www.abanow.org/2011/04/statement-of-stephen-n-zack-president-american-bar-association-on-the-potential-impact-on-the-courts-of-a-federal-government-shutdown/ WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 22, 2011--The American Bar Association has taken no action in support of, or in opposition to, judges considering Islamic law or Sharia. The American Bar Association has nearly 400,000 members, many of whom volunteer with any of the ABA’s 2,200 entities.  One of those 2,200 entities is the Section ... http://www.abanow.org/2011/02/correction-to-information-on-section-of-international-law-task-force/ WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 12, 2011—The American Bar Association (ABA) condemns the Iranian government’s conviction and sentencing of lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, after an unfair trial, on charges of "acting against national security" and making "propaganda against the system" in defending fellow lawyers accused of crimes related to their ... http://www.abanow.org/2011/01/statement-of-aba-president-stephen-n-zack-re-conviction-of-human-rights-lawyer-nasrin-sotoudeh/