Attorney General Kamala Harris is stepping to defend the California law requiring criminal defendants to post bail to be released while awaiting trial. The case was initiated in San Francisco, through a lawsuit to prove the unconstitutionality of the bail system...
Since 1991, Daniel Grijalva, has been arrested 98 times. Most recently he came to the attention of the police when he was...
“The death penalty is a lie, a misguided mistake born of anger and frustration. Capital punishment has become a perverse monument to inequality, to how some lives matter and others do not. It is a violent example of how we protect and value the rich and abandon and devalue the poor. The death penalty is a grim, disturbing shadow formed by the legacy of racial apartheid and bias against the poor that condemns the disfavored among us, but corrupts us all. It’s the perverse symbol elected officials use to strengthen their ‘tough on crime’ reputations and distract us from confronting the causes of violence. It is finally the enemy of grace, redemption and all of us who recognize that each person is more than their worse act.”
