LAP President Aliza Shatzman To Speak at Law Day of Action Rally in Carlisle, PA
Sunday, April 27, 2025
For Immediate Release
Contact: Aliza Shatzman, 267-481-2095, aliza.shatzman@legalaccountabilityproject.org
LAP President Aliza Shatzman To Speak at Law Day of Action Rally in Carlisle, PA
LAP is pleased to share that on Thursday, May 1, 2025, LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman will speak at a Law Day of Action “Rally to Support Our Courts” in Carlisle, PA at Cumberland County Courthouse. Dozens of Law Day of Action rallies will take place nationwide on May 1, where lawyers and non-lawyers alike will reaffirm the importance of the rule of law, judicial independence, and an independent legal profession.
“At a time when the rule of law is under attack, and democracy itself is at risk, it’s particularly important to ensure that judges who interpret the law are themselves subject to the law,” said Shatzman.
Judges are above the laws they interpret, since the entire federal judiciary–and its more than 30,000 employees nationwide–is still exempt from all federal anti-discrimination laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act, though The Legal Accountability Project will continue urging Congress to close this disturbing legal loophole. It is the height of injustice that judiciary employees who support the daily functioning of our courts still lack basic workplace protections. Judges should be held to the highest ethical standards, not the lowest.
It should disturb everyone that judges’ workplace conduct is so lawless. Ironically, in the same breath we talk about democracy and hope the courts will save us from administration overreach, these same federal judges are literally above the laws they interpret and some literally commit misconduct that would be illegal in any other workplace, including in Congress and the Executive Branch. A judicial branch lacking basic workplace protections and, frankly, justice for judiciary employees, cannot administer fair and impartial justice upon society.
You can learn more about National Law Day of Action here to find a rally near you. If you are in Carlisle, PA, come rally with us in support of an independent and impartial judiciary and legal profession.
