Sentences with phrase «voted on the criminal justice»

The New York City Council will vote on the Criminal Justice Reform Act, «creating more proportional penalties for certain low - level, non-violent offenses.»

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins would support voting on criminal justice and grand jury reforms in a special session, she told reporters in Albany on Tuesday.

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I am fighting for true equality for all; for equal pay and fair treatment at work, expanded voting rights, educational equity, criminal justice reform, freedom from gun violence in our schools and on our streets, and health care for all Americans.

And a stuck lever left the polling site at John Jay College of Criminal Justice on 10th Avenue without one of its voting machines.

The Governor's message was astutely deferential to Upstate's need for economic growth, meanwhile Cuomo also avoided triggering the tripwires of controversy on education and the environment (which provided Zephyr Teachout with opening to garner a third of the 2014 Democratic primary vote); Cuomo advanced strong measures around election law reform and on the criminal justice front vis a vis Bail reform, as well as the Dream Act and MWBE all of which registered positively with minority voters.

Over the last month, Cuomo has emphasized issues such as criminal justice reform, announcing an executive order that would allow people on parole the right to vote.

On criminal justice and asylum, the Lib Dems give a different weight to rights and responsibilities, and they favour more proportional voting systems, although with Labour's support for a referendum on the alternative vote this is now a debate about the nature rather than the principle of reforOn criminal justice and asylum, the Lib Dems give a different weight to rights and responsibilities, and they favour more proportional voting systems, although with Labour's support for a referendum on the alternative vote this is now a debate about the nature rather than the principle of reforon the alternative vote this is now a debate about the nature rather than the principle of reform.

If Democrats have any hope of gaining control of the New York State Senate this year — gaining an upper hand on progressive priorities like expanding voting rights, campaign finance reform, promoting reproductive justice, affordable housing, criminal justice reform, and gun control — then we have to win the April 24 special election in lower Westchester.

Mark - Viverito has made criminal justice reform one of her main issues but Levine said her record would be marred by her refusal to allow an up or down vote on the bill.

A small but exasperated group of protesters gathered on Staten Island tonight to denounce a grand jury's vote not to bring criminal charges in the death of Eric Garner, accusing the Staten Island justice system and the NYPD of once more discriminating against communities of color.

Ralph Nader will rally the campaign supporters and volunteers to get out the vote for Howie Hawkins and will highlight the Green Party's agenda including: acting on climate change and clean energy, banning fracking, raising the minimum wage to $ 15, creating public sector jobs, creating and protecting affordable housing for the working and middle classes, legalizing marijuana, fighting for economic justice and criminal justice reform.

It is not the only vote Malliotakis must now account for to a broader electorate, as she has weighed in on dozens of high - profile bills of importance to New York City residents, like those regarding women's reproductive rights, criminal justice reform, equal pay, college affordability, rent regulations, and the minimum wage.

«We've been killing ourselves for the past decade to advance the ball forward on criminal justice and voting rights issues,» Mr. David said.

An estimated 8,000 delegates and observers from across the country attended five days of workshops, speeches and public presentations and to vote on resolutions that addressed what many speakers called the pressing civil rights issues of the day: criminal justice, voting rights, health care, education and more.

Doing so makes more money available to be spent on more politically profitable areas because there are no votes to be gained by improving the criminal justice system.

(8) the points made in the conclusion are: (1) consistent with avoiding expenditures on the criminal justice system, the federal attorney general appeared to be neglecting the plight of pre-trial inmates in custody in extremely bad jail conditions, and the provincial attorney general appeared to ignore the needs of prosecutors for greater resources of staff and time in order to work adequately; (2) similarly, the other examples presented also support the proposition that the criminal justice system is inadequately resourced because there are «no votes in justice»; and, (3) the reduction in the safeguards against wrongful convictions caused by the radical changes in procedures made necessary because governments do not provide adequate resources for the criminal justice system;

The forty of my 51 years as a lawyer spent as a criminal lawyer of all appropriate types, plus related writings then and since, prove to me that governments believe that, «there are no votes in justice,» i.e., there are no votes to be gained by spending money on the justice system.