Justice should be Recession-proof

I will be critiquing on article by the Dallas Morning News editorial board, a group of journalists with wide-ranging areas of expertise appearing in February 27, 2009 edition. The authors of this article “Justice should be recession-proof” argue about the importance for the state to save the civil legal aid because everybody deserves access to justice.
The editorial warns the Texas Legislature about the consequence to let collapse the state’s civil legal aid. For the authors of this article, if the Texas Legislature doesn’t answer the Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson rescue plan to keep the program alive for the next two years, thousands of poor Texans will lose access to legal advice. Yes, the editorial is right because most of person cannot afford to hire a lawyer, especially in this critical time where people are losing their homes and jobs. The editorial supports its claim about why Texas should save the civil legal aid with facts and statistics. About 100,000 Texas annually use the civil legal aid service, and in national level Texas is 43rd nation in per capita revenue spent on civil legal aid. The authors warn that those statistics will be worse if the state fails to take steps. They rely their hope on lawmakers and banks. Lawmakers should consider a significant portion of Jefferson’s request for $ 37 million from general revenue, and should work closely with the Texas Access to Justice Commission, to identify other source to narrow the financial stress. The editorial makes a call to the banks that hold these special accounts that lawyers create to hold client money, which did not complied with the Texas Access to Justice Commission appealed to pay slightly higher interest rates to support the program, to make a commitment.
The authors of this article made successful and real argument about the state of Texas legal aid program and provide some solutions to avoid the collapse of the system so that everybody can deserves access to justice.