People’s Parity Project

🚨Court reform is no longer theoretical, it is necessary🚨
Our new report,“No Kings: the Urgent Need for Court Reform,” provides a blueprint to strengthen democracy & right-size the role of the courts by handing power back to the people 👉 peoplesparity.org/new-ppp-repo...

Court reform must be part of any plan to save democracy Read: @elienyc.bsky.social @thenation.com on what's at stake

Our new analysis finds court reform would check SCOTUS as a facilitator of autocracy, while preserving litigation as a tool to fight back: peoplesparity.org/research/no-...

💯 strongly agree
👇 Our new report on why court reform is absolutely necessary & how we make it happen peoplesparity.org/new-ppp-repo...

I don't know when or how it will come, but there will be a moment when Trump's presidency is behind us and we're picking up the pieces of our democracy.

That can't be the first time we think about how we rebuild; that planning has to start now. Deep, structural court reform must be a part of it.

2/2 “Progressive court reform is inherently anti-authoritarianism. It is about future-proofing the judiciary and safeguarding democracy.” - Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social @jennyhunter.bsky.social

👉READ our new report, "No Kings: the Urgent Need for Court Reform”: tinyurl.com/PPPNoKings

1/2 📢PPP’s new report “No Kings: the Urgent Need for Court Reform” shows that court reform would strengthen democracy & help right-size the role of the courts by handing power back to our elected representatives. @jennyhunter.bsky.social

👉READ MORE: tinyurl.com/PPPNoKings

Faith Allen, PPP State Courts Fellow, presented "Imbalanced Justice North Carolina," at the #InOurCourt conference at Elizabeth City State University & the need for more pro-people judges in NC @commoncausenc.bsky.social @billycorriher.bsky.social

⚖️READ THE REPORT: tinyurl.com/JusticeNC

The "In Our Court" conference is underway today at Elizabeth City State University with inspiring speakers and a great turnout of North Carolinians who are committed to the fight for justice in our state! Learn more at CCNC.me/InOurCourt #InOurCourt

4/4 🚨🚨"With our democracy under attack like never before, the role of a fair judiciary in safeguarding election integrity and indeed democracy itself could not be more critical.” @billycorriher.bsky.social

👉READ: tinyurl.com/JusticeNC

3/4: Among NC Appellate Judges:
✅Only 5% come from legal aid backgrounds.
✅Just 10% have civil rights experience.
✅One-third (33%) are former prosecutors, and another third have worked in corporate defense

👉READ MORE: tinyurl.com/JusticeNC

2/4: Among NC Superior Judges:
✅Only 16% have backgrounds as public defenders & 2% have legal aid experience.
✅Around 46% of judges are former prosecutors.
✅100% of the state's business court judges have worked on behalf of corporations.

👉READ MORE: tinyurl.com/JusticeNC

1/4🚨NEW REPORT, “Imbalanced Justice: North Carolina,” by Faith Allen, a PPP State Courts Fellow from NC Central University that reveals a concerning lack of pro-people superior and appellate court judges versus those representing a corporate or prosecutorial background.

👉READ: tinyurl.com/JusticeNC

Join us today at 12pm ET for Lawyering Under Authoritarianism actionnetwork.org/events/lawye...

The Supreme Court is
dismantling democracy. There will be no path out if we don’t enact court reform.

✊ JOIN US for a powerful conversation on 9/30 | noon with Sima Atri, Setareh Ghandehari, Alec Karakatsanis
@equalityalec.bsky.social , and Sofia Montez, where we will explore how lawyers and law students can confront rising authoritarianism through our work.

👉 Register here: bit.ly/LawyUnderAuth

The rise of the shadow docket—the Court’s preferred tool for issuing massive rulings with little or no briefing, argument, or explanation—is just the latest manifestation of this intellectual laziness.

Brett Kavanaugh’s Lazy Racial Profiling Opinion Is the Most Honest Originalism He’s Ever Done There is a long, grim history of Supreme Court justices deciding big cases by appealing to what they think feels right.

SCOTUS is just vibes now
@skennedy2504.bsky.social in @ballsandstrikes.org "...Kavanaugh instinctively replicates the form & reasoning of early Marshall Court decisions: assumptions in search of authority, conclusions without argument, & outcomes he frames as self-evidently reasonable & correct."

The courts will not save us. And even when they try, our thoroughly corrupt SCOTUS steps in to urgently intervene on behalf of the President. SCOTUS belongs to Trump now. We must demand serious court reform to protect our democracy from the naked corruption that has captured the highest court.

Supreme Court pulls trigger on FTC firing, siding with Trump over precedent Democratic Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter argued that the high court's emergency docket wasn’t the appropriate forum to overturn nearly a century of precedent.

SCOTUS handed down another emergency shadow docket decision that concentrates power in the hands of the president. They're giving more and more power to Donald Trump—power that they know he'll use to further dismantle democracy.

Perkins Coie Fires Lawyer Over This Charlie Kirk Post - Above the Law Why would the firm choose to terminate a valued associate over something so benign?

Perkins Coie stood up to Trump’s Big Law extortion attempt, but it seems we've found the limit to their courage. If Perkins Coie is willing to fire attorneys for speaking the truth while decrying gun violence, it's clear they are more committed to their bottom line than they are to democracy.

The #FAIRAct would make sure arbitration is chosen, not forced. Consumers and workers should have the freedom to be heard where they want to be heard. Time to #EndForcedArbitration and restore individual choice. @consumeradvocates.bsky.social

Sen. Blumenthal, Rep.  Johnson Reintroduce Legislation to Restore Access to Justice The FAIR Act would end corporations’ use of forced arbitration and give cheated consumers, workers, and small-business owners their day in court.

⚖️Through forced arbitration, employers & corporations have created a private system of justice where the constitutionally created protections of our legal system don't apply. That’s why consumers, workers, and small biz need the #FAIRAct @consumeradvocates.bsky.social

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor urged a greater emphasis on civic involvement and education, questioning whether some Americans had been clearly taught the difference between a president and a king: https://cnn.it/3InS0Im

On #ConstitutionDay, and every day, we must remember that the Constitution belongs to the people. As Trump's constitutional violations jeopardize every American's freedoms, it is our collective responsibility to enforce the Constitution.

ICYMI: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...

🚨 We’ve seen what happens when powerful interests influence our courts. Judges, and the politicians who appoint them, are on the ballot. Our votes are the last line of defense.

Register today & protect fair courts: iwillvote.com
#NationalVoterRegistrationDay

The administration’s decision to launch another extrajudicial attack against alleged drug runners in the Caribbean is a lawless act—or at least it used to be.

How the Supreme Court Turned Trump Into a Danger to Everyone The administration’s decision to launch an attack against alleged drug runners in the Caribbean is a lawless act—or at least it used to be.

The court has, in effect, created a special legal zone around the presidency—as well as executive agents writ large—in which actions, even when blatantly illegal, are immunized from consequences: @skennedy2504.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com

The Secret Curriculum That Rewired America’s Judges For decades, big business-funded economics courses have been pushing the nation’s judges to the right.

👉 A new study reveals that between 1976 and 1999, nearly half of U.S. federal judges took economics courses at a conservative institute - which shaped how they behaved on the bench: more pro-business rulings and harsher sentences.

#JudicialBias #CourtCapture #CourtReform #JusticeOrProfit

State Courts Hold the Power to Free Us Or Erase Us State supreme courts decide abortion, protest, custody and LGBTQ+ rights—critical battlegrounds for women, democracy and grassroots power.

🏦State courts handle ~95% of all US legal cases, but have long been overlooked in the fight for democracy & justice. In their recent OpEd in @msmagazine.com, Mercedes Fulbright & Sandra Castro Solís at @repower.org say it's time "to treat state courts not as a footnote, but as a headline.”

Big Law may have bent the knee but lawyers + law students are fighting back, join them ⬇️ peoplesparity.org/dont-bend-th...