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In 2019, a pair of undergraduate computer science majors at the University of Chicago set out to complete their capstone for the College course, “Entrepreneurship in Technology.” They never anticipated that their project would later serve public defenders around the country.
Shortly after the class ended, Leslie Jones-Dove and Devshi Mehrotra co-founded JusticeText, software that generates automated transcripts of body camera footage, interrogation videos, jail calls and more. JusticeText expedites the pre-trial preparation time and allows public defenders to analyze crucial data.
“When we turned in our final projects for class, we weren t the only ones who had been moved by the mission we uncovered through the course of the quarter,” said Jones-Dove, AB’19. “Our peers voted our pitch as the class favorite and that helped us decide that we might want to purs
Vice President, Institute for Constitutional Government Then-U.S. President Donald Trump signs the First Step Act and the Juvenile Justice Reform Act in the Oval Office of the White House December 21, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Win McNamee / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
Among the orders worth retaining that Biden axed Executive Order 13980.
Biden who campaigned as a criminal justice reformer just ended this long-overdue criminal justice reform that Trump delivered.
By rescinding Trump’s order, Biden paves the way for more morally innocent, unsuspecting Americans to be caught up in the criminal justice system.
President Joe Biden has been moving at breakneck speed to undo every policy of his predecessor that he can, but he seems not to be giving any thought to whether the underlying policy is good.
John G. Malcolm is the vice president of the Institute for Constitutional Government and director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, overseeing The Heritage Foundation’s work to increase understanding of the Constitution and the rule of law. Read his research.
President Joe Biden has been moving at breakneck speed to undo every policy of his predecessor that he can, but he seems not to be giving any thought to whether the underlying policy is good.
If former President Donald Trump made it, Biden will unmake it even if he later has to remake it, as in the case of recently resumed border wall construction.
The Senate bill, which is identical to the House version introduced today, is supported by a broad coalition [2] of advocates from across the political spectrum, including: American Civil Liberties Union, American Conservative Union, Americans for Prosperity, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Demand Progress, Due Process Institute, FreedomWorks, Government Accountability Project, Government Information Watch, Innocence Project, Justice Action Network, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National Taxpayers Union, Open the Government, Protect Democracy, Project on Government Oversight (POGO), Public Citizen, R Street Institute, Right on Crime, and The Sentencing Project.