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64 Syracuse L. Rev. 469 (2014)
The Inevitable, If Untrumped, March toward Civil Gideon

handle is hein.journals/syrlr64 and id is 497 raw text is: THE INEVITABLE, IF UNTRUMPETED, MARCH TOWARD CIVIL GIDEON Stan Keillor, James H. Cohen, and Mercy Changweshat She had good reason to believe that some property of her [late] husband ... might be recoverable by proper measures; and this property, though not large, would be enough to make her comparatively rich. But there was nobody to stir in it. Mr. Elliot would do nothing, and she could do nothing herself, equally disabled from personal exertion by her state of bodily weakness, and from employing others by her want of money. She had no natural connexions to assist her even with their counsel, and she could not afford to purchase the assistance of the law.' CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................. ....... 469 I. GOVERNANCE THROUGH COURTS .................. .... 474 II. THE PROGRESS OF JUSTICE BLACKMUN ............. ..... 478 III. MATHEWS V. ELDRIDGE: BARRIER TO PROGRESS ...... ..... 480 IV. LASSITER. ....................................... 481 V. TURNER ............................................ 483 VI. WHERE TO GO FROM LASSITER AND TURNER? .................. 483 VII. THE INEVITABLE ABOUT-FACE ON CIVIL GIDEON .... ..... 486 CONCLUSION ............................... .................487 INTRODUCTION The American legal system's failure to provide affordable representation for a large segment of its population is so well t Stan Keillor, a former deputy chief staff attorney at the Minnesota Court of Appeals, is a consulting attorney at Access Justice, a nonprofit, public interest law firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School. James H. Cohen, a noted advocate and crusader for the underserved for over 40 years, is the founder and executive director of Access Justice and a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. Mercy Changwesha is a law clerk at Access Justice and a 2013 graduate of the University of Virginia Law School. Research assistance was provided by Wei Quan, a law clerk at Access Justice and a 2013 graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School. Access Justice is a pioneer in providing affordable legal assistance to low- and middle-income individuals and disadvantaged minorities, with 80% of its services assisting those within 125% to 200% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines and 20% to those within 200% to 350% of the guidelines (in practice, almost no clients fall in the higher range). Services are offered largely on a low-bono basis with considerable pro bono assistance. 1. JANE AUSTEN, PERSUASION (1816).

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