Earlier this year, the Conference of Chief Justices of state courts, and the Conference of State Court Administrators renewed their call for funding to be restored to the LSC. A white paper released by the two entities in March noted that, “In inflation-adjusted dollars, LSC’s FY 2012 appropriation is an all-time low for LSC funding,” and requested that Congress “restore funding to LSC to at least $404 million for Fiscal Year 2013.”
The white paper stated that, “The civil legal problems of low-income people involve essential human needs, such as protection from domestic abuse, safe and habitable housing, access to necessary health care, and family law issues including child custody actions.”
In February, the Conferences had already adopted resolutions reaffirming the importance of the LSC and calling upon Congress “to fulfill our nation’s promise of ‘Equal Justice Under Law,’ by restoring funding for the federal Legal Services Corporation to the level necessary to provide critically needed services to low-income and vulnerable Americans.”
At that time, the Conferences also stated that, “when large segments of the American population are denied effective access to the justice system and are unable to assert and defend effectively important civil legal rights and prerogatives, public trust and confidence in the justice system itself is placed in jeopardy.”
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