It is PAST TIME to abolish the NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor. They got 28 million of our tax dollars in 2024. They charge people from all over the city in front of the extra white/privileged juries of Manhattan. We don't need a 6th DA for 5 boros.They are a relic & should be abolished yesterday.

In NY in 2024 we passed the Jury Of Our Peers Act to finally end the complete and lifetime ban of anyone with a felony conviction from being considered for jury service. Gov Hochul vetoed it. Sen Cleare and AM Gibbs are working to move it again. Join us www.juryofourpeers.org #JuryOfOurPeers

In today’s newsletter: A judge orders Colorado prisons to stop using solitary confinement to force prisoners to work. Plus, many elections are happening today, and Massachusetts prisons have transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

Research shows that more diverse juries are less quick to convict, and that they deliberate longer and more carefully. A landmark reform by former Governor Phil Murphy in January will make the jury pool in New Jersey more representative of the state.

One year after the New York prison guard strike, it's incarcerated New Yorkers who are suffering from its lingering impacts. Read the stories of six New Yorkers locked up in state prisons:

Whoah. WFH today and felt that earthquake, Irvington! patch.com/new-york/tar...

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! The patriarchy isn't going to smash itself. www.votewelch.com

Local / County governments pushing the New York State government (read: Kathy Hochul) to do what's right and stop colluding with ICE. Here, it's Ulster County in the Mid-Hudson Valley. #ShareGoodNewsToo

The lesson of the Great Snowball Freakout of 2026 is that Mamdani's efforts to appease and engage the power centers inclined to hammer him on public safety are doomed, because they're going to hammer him anyway, even for something as goofy as a snowball fight. hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-is-g...

I don't know much about Dani Welch and it's not my district but they are primarying the ATROCIOUS Tom Suozzi who absolutely needs to be defeated.

Dani Welch is all of these things and more - as her colleague I can say she never stops fighting, has absolute moral clarity and is a hell of an excellent human with the sweetest kid you ever did see. NY-03 would be so lucky to elect her. Let's go!

Friends, whether what motivates you is... 😇 Positive (advance ethical politics in NY-03), 😡 Negative (punish Tom Suozzi), or 🤯 Both ...you can now plug directly into @votewelch.bsky.social's campaign because her website is now live!

Watching city council committee to combat hate and for me- the issue with using cops to "keep people safe" is that NYPD DOESN'T KEEP PEOPLE SAFE + Giving NYPD ability to set up camp outside mosques which they SURVEILLED for decades is also just outrageous. More policing ≠ safety

Done. Here was my script: "This is Bright Limm, constituent in Jamaica, Queens. I urge the governor to publicly support—and commit to signing—the New York for All Act. If she does not, please know: I will most certainly be supporting her challenger in the primary instead."

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

Another murder by ICE. 10 shots. Voting to fund them is a war crime in itself. It’s madness. We have no opposition party. It’s sick. Every single elected democratic from local to feds should be doing everything in their power to defund and block ICE from everywhere. #AbolishICE

“I told both of my children, that they had to go ahead and to live their lives ... And to not stop living because their mom was wrongfully imprisoned, because that would kill me before anything else. That would truly break my heart." #MothersDay innocenceproject.org/news/stronge...

This is a massive story — and revelation — from @chrisgelardi.bsky.social for @nysfocus.bsky.social. "The statewide gang database has been in operation for 20 years, though it has garnered almost no outside attention or scrutiny." nysfocus.com/2025/04/23/t...

URGENT: New York is on the brink of a major rollback that could lead to more wrongful convictions. Discovery reform — which helps prevent innocent people from incarceration — is under attack. And the process is happening behind closed doors. #ProtectKaliefsLaw

We won't let @governor.ny.gov take us back to the days of coerced pleas, prolonged pretrial detention and wrongful convictions. #ProtectKaliefsLaw #DefendDiscovery

TY to Renay Lynch - wrongfully convicted & exonerated after 26 years of incarceration thanks to @innocenceproject.bsky.social - who was invited to speak w/ the BPHA Caucus led by Chair @solagesny.bsky.social TY for the full throated support for automatic and open discovery! #ProtectKaliefsLaw

At the BPHA Caucus press conference in the capital to protect New Yorkers, to protect #KaliefsLaw, as Hochul pushes to put more people into jail. Thank you to caucus chair @solagesny.bsky.social for organizing this!

THANK YOU @leaderasc.bsky.social and @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social and members of the NY State Assembly and Senate for your leadership in standing against the Gov's proposal to repeal our criminal evidence sharing laws. #ProtectKaliefsLaw

THANK YOU @leaderasc.bsky.social and @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social and members of the NY State Assembly and Senate for your leadership in standing against the Gov' proposal to repeal our criminal evidence sharing laws. #ProtectKaliefsLaw

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Please read this deep dive by @nickpinto.bsky.social - he has long reported on nyc criminal courts and this is one of the best reads there is on the current fight to save discovery reform- more, including how to join our fight at protectkaliefslaw.com

Governor Kathy Hochul and prosecutors say they want to "streamline" reforms passed five years ago to ensure fair and speedy criminal court proceedings. A close reading of their proposals reveals their effort to gut the legislation known as "Kalief's Law." hellgatenyc.com/discovery-re...

"The gov & all of the city’s DAs want the 2020 discovery reforms amended so prosecutors would have unilateral control over the speedy trial clock, leaving them to largely be the judges of whether their efforts to provide evidence to the defense are reasonable." www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/25/r...

Indicted felony speedy trial dismissals ("serious" cases) have remained steady since 2019, the year before our landmark discovery reform. There is no "loophole" to close; no "technical dismissals" NO ROLLBACKS. PROTECT KALEIF'S LAW. queenseagle.com/all/2025/1/1...

Student debt relief is a key labor issue for legal services. Getting this bill passed would be life changing for @lasattysunited.bsky.social members in @uaw.org amsterdamnews.com/news/2024/12...

Instead of asking for grants/revenue streams to simply make fares free or fix the trains MTA is out there getting grant money to study the "psychology of fare evasion". www.thecity.nyc/2024/12/13/m...

NYU anti war students blockade Bobst Library to demand disclosure of investments and divestiture from war profiteering. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝘀 SRG goons = Riot Squad Community Affairs = Intel TARU = A/V spying–handheld & drones Legal = Coordinate fabrication of claims in cops' affidavits

Still more to do, for example can't just be 'non-violent' offenses, but definitely a start. @govkathyhochul.bsky.social please take note: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Today, the NYC Council considers Intro 606: which would subject 100k New Yorkers who ride e-bikes every day - to take their kids to school, commute to work, or pay their bills-to be “licensed” to do so. City council must REJECT this costly, ineffective bill & instead BUILD bike infrastructure.

TY @phara4assembly.bsky.social: we must INVEST in community based resources, supporting housing & supportive off-ramps like #TreatmentNotJail & stop reliance on "the revolving door of the criminal legal system & the cudgel of incarceration as our only response" www.nydailynews.com/2024/11/23/r...

Organizer extraordinaire Thomas Gant from Center For Community Alternatives at my Alma mater CUNY Law speaking about excessive sentences and the need to pass #TheSecondLookAct says the harm goes beyond prison walls “the harm and hurt that is being done is to keep families from being whole again.”

Hey Bluesky - began twitter w/ an anon account (@brooklynPD) to criticize bail setting by brooklyn judges that I saw every day as a public defender in brooklyn, left brooklyn for manhattan, left daily court work for policy work at legal aid & now fight for system reforms w aim to tear down systems

🌇Wake up, NY! It’s a new day. Clean Slate goes live today. This new law will automatically seal certain criminal records, removing barriers to jobs, housing, and more, all while helping our communities thrive. Learn more: cleanslateny.org/faq