of all the bipartisan negotiations going on the hill, the police reform one is that i and most reporters have been the most bullish about, because they have kept the details locked down. the three lawmakers working on this closely, really going back to late last year, have been running a very tight ship. and we were told early this week that they actually started circulating text among themselves. that they thought they might be close enough to an agreement to actually start putting something down on paper in legislative text. that s a big deal in d.c. but what has come to the forefront as they started looking at this text, and this is coming from republican sources, including lindsey graham, working with tim scott, is that the negotiators largely agreed that they were going to leave something called section 242 out of this, this deals with u.s. code about how a government official could potentially be charged for depriving a person of their constitutional rights. republicans didn t
Cuando Duque invitaba a marchar para que no subieran los impuestos
publimetro.co - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from publimetro.co Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Investigan muerte de una mujer vacunada
elmanana.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from elmanana.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
and certainly it s going to start with the top and not fueling the kind of division that we have seen. on that note, you have made criminal justice reform one of the main things you re talking about as a candidate, and you re also running on your record as a prosecutor in san francisco and as the attorney general of california. riley fink over here as a question about that. he s a senior here at drake studying political science. good evening, senator. thank you for being here. hi. you positioned yourself as in line with the progressive movement to make criminal justice less punitive and racist. yet your record as a prosecutor shows you embrace the tough on crime mentality. you ve defended california s death penalty and as the attorney general, your office opposed the release of non-violent prisoners. how do you reconcile your contradictory past with what you claim to support today? i ve been consistent my whole
judgment, but we have seen many cases where dna has proven that the person who was sentenced to death was not in fact guilty. and it is something that frankly costs the taxpayers of this country a lot of money and is actually would be cheaper to let people spend their life and end their life in jail as opposed to that punishment of the death penalty. so on all of those issues, i will tell you that i am proud of my record. but i also do know there is a whole lot more work to be done in this country around criminal justice and reform of the system. we have a problem in this country of mass incarceration. we have a problem in this country of not having adequate response and consequence when young people who are unarmed are shot. we have a real problem in this country about disproportion al application of the law based on who is charged with a crime, what kind of bail is set for them, what kind of sentencing they received based on race. and there is a lot of work to do. that s the work i v