{"id":38066,"date":"2019-10-28T11:02:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T18:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38066"},"modified":"2019-10-28T11:02:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T18:02:15","slug":"the-justice-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/28\/the-justice-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Justice Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"

As s long-term volunteer, helping prisoners at Oregon State Penitentiary learn rehabilitation skills, justice is a subject that concerns me deeply.  Sadly, the word that best describes justice in the US is “injustice”.  From rampant racism and excessive force by police, to long waits for trial and interrogators that are allowed to lie, to prosecutors that need convictions for career advancement and a stacked deck in court, to mandatory minimum sentences, to inadequate medical and rehabilitation services in prison, to rampant racism throughout, the system is broken.  Politicians, mainly Democrats, spoke out on these issues in SC.  Let’s start with an introduction.<\/font><\/p>\n

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One day after President Trump claimed he had done more for black voters than the Obama administration<\/a> had, several Democratic presidential candidates spoke at the same historically black college on Saturday and issued a blistering rebuke of both the president and the event\u2019s organizers \u2014 whom they accused of giving Mr. Trump an undeserved platform. <\/p>\n

Senator Kamala Harris of California led the charge, and was set to boycott the event altogether until the group that had invited Mr. Trump was removed as a sponsor. Other candidates, including Joseph R. Biden Jr., Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., said the president had a history of racist demagogy that outweighed any recent efforts at criminal justice reform, including the First Step Act, which he signed into law last year. <\/p>\n

The First Step Act was a bipartisan bill that helped thousands of federal inmates<\/a> secure early release under new sentencing guidelines, but Democrats were united in framing it as an insufficient measure. They called for more structural reforms to the criminal justice system, and took aim at Mr. Trump himself, who has made exploitation of racial grievance a trademark of his political brand<\/strong>…. [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here is the complete video of the two day event for you to peruse.  There are around eleven hours total, so skip through as much as you want.<\/font><\/p>\n

Watch Live: 2020 Democrats Speak At Justice Forum (Day 1)<\/a> <\/p>\n