Juvenile Justice Reform Committee 07/05/2019 Sitting in court for a day is a very valuable thing to do. It should be like jury duty, something that every few years is a requirement. Hearing the litany of charges and admissions and excuses is a window into humanity. A police officer once told me that he loves his job partly because he gets to offer compassion on someone’s worst day. Their second worst day is in court. There is a reason I care about these things. The single greatest power we hold as a government is to take someone’s
Sitting in court for a day is a very valuable thing to do. It should be like jury duty, something that every few years is a requirement. Hearing the litany of charges and admissions and excuses is a window into humanity. A police officer once told me that he loves his job partly because he gets to offer compassion on someone’s worst day. Their second worst day is in court. There is a reason I care about these things. The single greatest power we hold as a government is to take someone’s
Criminal Justice Reform 06/01/2019 The Constitution means something to me. It’s not just a little book that I carry in my jacket pocket, it’s the way we organize ourselves, the way that we establish how we will protect one another, the establishment of our rules. There is no place more important to remember our founding document than when we talk about how we dole out punishments for violating our laws. Government has the sole ability to rob someone of their freedom and we should be very careful in how we go about that
The Constitution means something to me. It’s not just a little book that I carry in my jacket pocket, it’s the way we organize ourselves, the way that we establish how we will protect one another, the establishment of our rules. There is no place more important to remember our founding document than when we talk about how we dole out punishments for violating our laws. Government has the sole ability to rob someone of their freedom and we should be very careful in how we go about that
