"Kim Kardashian is the hero that criminal justice reform needs"
That's the title of my latest piece in The Hill, which you can read here. The introduction:
A lot of people talk the talk about criminal justice reform, even though their records on reform are ... shall we say ... not sparkling. There are very few people who walk the criminal justice reform walk. Kim Kardashian is one of those actually working to make change. It shouldn’t be a big surprise that Kardashian has a deep-rooted passion for criminal defense as her dad, Robert, was also a well-known lawyer.
She’s successfully working with President Trump on commutations and pardons. Kardashian saw a story on Twitter about Alice Marie Johnson and didn’t just retweet it. She did something and made it her mission to help the first-time nonviolent drug offender who was sentenced to life. She met with Johnson and then met with Trump. After 21 years in prison, Johnson was released. Kardashian literally saved her life and was quoted after hearing that Johnson was going to be released: "We cried, maybe, on the phone for, like, three minutes straight. Everyone was just crying."
She’s funding lawyers who are working on freeing other inmates. There is so much work to be done with our over-incarceration problem because of the old War on Drugs policies, which resulted in thousands of people convicted of low-level drug offenses doing monster prison sentences, including life. Kardashian is funding lawyers who are working on The Decarceration Collective and other initiatives (like #cut50 with Van Jones), including putting to work the First Step Act, the recent law meant to reform our criminal justice issues. In just the last 90 days, she has helped to free 17 prisoners. It’s truly remarkable work.
I kind of agree on KK, but think that the KK suck up party could wait until you wrote about Alito and two other Justices opining that a death sentence SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSED WITHOUT REVIEW of the "meritorious" and "important" claims because they think the filings were a bit late (WTF!?):
ReplyDelete"The claims raised by Murphy and Ray are important
and may ultimately be held to have merit. But they are
not simple, and they require a careful consideration of the
legitimate interests of both prisoners and prisons. See
Holt v. Hobbs, supra. Prisoners should bring such claims
well before their scheduled executions so that the courts
can adjudicate them in the way that the claims require
and deserve and so that States are afforded sufficient time
to make any necessary modifications to their execution
protocols.
In this case, however, Murphy egregiously delayed in
raising his claims. By countenancing such tactics, the
Court invites abuse.
For these reasons, Murphy’s stay application, like Ray’s,
should have been denied."
14 MURPHY v. COLLIER
ALITO, J., dissenting
Her father was not a criminal defense attorney. In fact his license was not active when OJ was charged. He activated it to avoid testifying in the trial. He never visited the jail for a client until OJ was arrested. Never tried a case and probably never litigated a case in court even at a motion. IF KK didnt have money and a big set she would be no where.As it has been said, she is famous for doing nothing. No education, just a big rack.
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ReplyDeleteWhat'd she do to you?
4:58 - you're a hateful misogynist. I feel sorry for you. Seek therapy.
ReplyDeleteHer rack is much bigger than her small birdlike brain. 4:58
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