equal justice
Same rules apply
Equal justice is the principle that laws should apply to everyone the same way, regardless of wealth, status, race, or other personal characteristics.
The phrase appears on the U.S.
Supreme Court building: "Equal Justice Under Law." In practice, equal justice names an ideal often invoked to highlight how far systems fall short: Equal justice remains elusive when public defenders carry impossible caseloads.
- due processGuaranteed judicial fairness
- nondiscriminationEqual treatment regardless of identity
- lawBinding principle or regulation
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- pro bonoFree professional services
human rights · day in court · anti-discrimination policies · level playing field · Thurgood Marshall · Fourteenth Amendment · rule of law · court system · legal advocacy · scales · fairness · inclusion · grassroots activism · civil · accessibility · accountability · tribunal · public defender
- legal aidpro bono, legal aid attorney, legal aid, legal aid office, legal clinics
equal justicepreferential treatment
Advantages given selectively
injustice · double standard · favoritism · discrimination · privilege
equal justicestructural inequality
Institutionalized unequal treatment
Jim Crow · apartheid · caste system · persecution · mass incarceration
equal justiceinstitutional racism
Prejudice embedded in organizations
apartheid · racial injustice · kangaroo court · show trial · vigilante justice