This is incredible: In California, the activists behind @RecallPersky gathered 100,000 signatures to recall the judge who sentenced Brock Turner to just six months in jail after he was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside a frat party.
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Senator, I hope you will reconsider your support of this campaign. While good intentioned, it has dire consequences with significant ripple effects.
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1. The Presky Recall shows just how poisoned our national dialog about criminal justice reform remains: even those on the left continue to define “justice” as “punitiveness”.
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2. Let’s accept for now that Brock was “under-sentenced” relative to non-sex crimes. Why does that mean Persky was wong? Maybe everyone else is for non-sex crimes?
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3. Real reform would mean looking at the Brock case and demanding equality via Brock-like terms for ALL, not for NONE. This is a persistent, historical failing with US punishment:
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4. In the way-old days, peasants were punished harshly, nobility far less so. Whitman (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/harsh-justice-9780195182606?cc=us&lang=en& …) has shown that as Europe democratized it treated all more like nobility. The US? Degrades all to peasants.
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5. The Persky Recall shows that our harshness-for-all instinct remains alive and well. Even putative liberals see that the only way to equate sentences is to make all equally harsh, not all equally light.
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6. This is bad policy, too. The data is clear: longer sentences don’t deter. And they likely incapacitate ineffectively as well. The money spent on tougher sentences could be far better spent elsewhere.
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7. It’s likely that this will lead to harsher outcomes as judges fear bad publicity. And since most defendants are poorer POC, the impact will be racially and class-wise skewed. The Turners of the world won’t pay the price.
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So disappointing to see you advocate for an even more punitive justice system.
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Once I voted for you. But between drumming
@alfranken out without any process and this absurd tweet looking to recall a judge for imposing a SHORT sentence it is clear you are no progressive. Just a self-serving pol.#lost_my_voteThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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diificult to believe that — after so many decades and 1000s of cases demonstrating dramatically the fundamentally flawed nature of the US “justice” system — ANYONE could still believe that harsher sentencing and less judicial discretion is the answer to anything
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Absolutely not. This is a terrible campaign that undermines judicial independence and will negatively impact POC. You should be ashamed for supporting it.
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If judges fear being recalled for their sentences, what do you think will happen in areas where there is significant racism, homophobia, or antisemitism? Learn American history.
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You have not educated yourself on the issue. You are undermining the system and contributing to the oversentencing problem and overjailing problem by undermining judicial independence. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF.
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After reading this thread, I see that the Cary Nation of the Senate is at it sgain, swinging her axe with no consideration of the consequence. We Dems might lose the Minnesota Senate seat thanks to her, but at least Kirsten gets to ride her high horse into the sunset.
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This is a bad campaign & stuff like this is why I will not support you in any run for President. I support due process and independent courts.
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Justice?
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This is SUCH a bad look for you, Senator. You should be leading us *beyond* America's addiction to prisons and punishment, not agitating for a judge's recall because he didn't punish enough. As your constituent, who hopes you'll run for president, I hope you'll reconsider.
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Senator please stop begging us for money until our well deserved tax cuts start.
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And still yet another Kirsten Gillibrand - send money to...
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