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Oct 21, 2022 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
Some news, friends: today’s my last day at the ACLU. And now that I’m leaving, I can spill the inside details of this organization’s devious plot to shred the Constitution and destroy America.
A thread:
First off, my team at the Criminal Law Reform Project had the gall to challenge law enforcement agencies to convict *less* than 25% of the entire world’s prison population, and do it while *not* killing minorities or violating half the Founders' Bill of Rights. Unfair!
Jun 24, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
THREAD: now that the Michael Flynn saga is over, let's talk about all the ways it exposed the rot at the heart of our criminal law system.
Spoiler alert: it's more complicated and more concerning than you think.
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First, this is NOT how it works for poor Black and Brown folks. Prosecutors in their cases do NOT pore over plea deals after the fact, squinting to find infirmities and fighting to undo them. They absolutely SHOULD do this for everyone. But they DO NOT.
