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OCR Page 1 of 44THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
May 14, 1996
MEMORANDUM FOR VICKI RADD
FROM:
ELENA KAGAN
EK
JENNIFER KLEIN
SUBJECT:
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EVENTS
Attached is a memo from Gail Alexander of the American Bar
Association (ABA) proposing ways for the President, in
conjunction with the ABA, to highlight the problem of domestic
violence and call for greater efforts to combat it.
Several of the ABA's proposals would have the President meet
with children harmed by domestic violence to share his own
experiences and offer his support. The ABA has prepared video
materials for professionals working with such children and would
like the President to call attention to these materials and
reiterate their message. Similarly, the President could spend
some time staffing the national domestic hotline, which has
received such a good response in the past. The problem with an
event of this kind, of course, is that the President does not
seem to be doing anything. He is empathizing, but not acting --
and for that reason, such an event may well seem gimmicky. For
this reason, we think that this kind of event, if planned at all,
must be combined with something else.
The most promising proposal involving presidential "action"
would have the President challenge the nation's bar associations
and attorneys to ensure that all victims of domestic violence
receive effective legal representation. The President could call
on state and local bar associations, as well as the ABA and Legal
Services Corporation, to train private lawyers to handle such
cases and then enlist them to do so. (The ABA is already
involved in some efforts of this kind). At the same time, the
President could call on all lawyers (a call the ABA would join)
to participate in these training and representation activities.
The President could issue such a challenge directly to the Bar at
the ABA's midsummer convention. Alternatively, a special event
could be arranged (perhaps involving some conversation with
victims, as discussed above) to serve as the forum for the
challenge.
The ABA also proposes that the President visit a
comprehensive domestic violence court, which concentrates on
treatment of abusers to help stop violence. Before we can
evaluate this proposal, we have to find out much more about how
such courts work and how well they succeed in reaching their
goals. Such a treatment-oriented approach to the problem may
seem insufficiently forceful.
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