Justin reflects on his two years serving as a public defender, how we are taught to think about crime as opposed to its everyday reality. He explores how criminalization is a process done to people to dehumanize and reinforce hierarchies of power, ultimately destroying lives and making us all less safe.
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Sam Bankman-Fried posted perhaps the biggest bail ever posted and is now out of custody. However, most poor people are not given the same courtesy.
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The Supreme Court is just getting started. A draft opinion from February in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization leaked detailing the conservative court’s opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. The Court was very explicit, “we hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
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Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges. Despite killing two people and injuring a third, the jury found he acted in self-defense. It’s hard to overstate just how bad this precedent is in the face of a conservative movement increasingly willing to embrace its most violent fringe that has become the mainstream of the party.
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