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  • Biden moving to improve legal services for poor, minorities

    05/18/2021 5:15:54 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 9 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | May 18, 2021 | By KAT STAFFORD
    DETROIT - President Joe Biden plans to take executive action Tuesday to ensure minorities, low-income Americans and others have better access to quality legal representation after services dwindled during the Trump administration. Biden will sign a memorandum directing the Department of Justice to restore key functions of the shuttered Access to Justice Office and to reestablish the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable. The plans are laid out in a presidential memo first shared with The Associated Press. The pandemic “has further exposed and exacerbated inequities in our justice system” as legal services were curtailed, Biden wrote. He added that...