Sarah Lustbader (@saaarah.bsky.social)
@SarahLustbader
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Public defender. Words in @nytimes, @washingtonpost, @nybooks, @slate, @theappeal. Regularly and enthusiastically laugh at my own jokes
New York, USA
Joined February 2012
TLDR: sure, criminal law should forgive more often. but it's time for law to seek forgiveness.
Check out Sarah's piece, months in the making, in the new issue of @nybooks. It's about Martha Minow on forgiveness (and Derecka Purnell on abolition, and Leigh Goodmark on domestic violence), but really it's about how retributivism limits our imagination https://t.co/LV5Z7Bobq1
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I wrote about a very unlikely radical.
Leigh Goodmark began her career representing battered women, convinced that she could protect them through policing, prosecution, and prison. Now she argues that the legal system does not make abused women safer—it makes their problems worse.
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It took me 28 years to go from carceral feminist to abolitionist. @SarahLustbader tells that story here: https://t.co/S520YpOcJV.
newyorker.com
For years, Leigh Goodmark was convinced that the way to keep women safe was through arrests and prosecutions. Now she’s pushing for the opposite.
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I'm frankly afraid to fly now. It's unheard of and dangerous to fly without TSA and FAA protection -- or all the people Trump fired on his first day.
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You know, if I was an elected Democrat in Congress, I really might start to wonder why I should go to war with my own voters in defense of a far-right government that wants to elect Donald Trump, or why I should hand that government a virtual blank check to massacre civilians
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If you have been wondering how, in congress, "ceasefire" became taboo but "humanitarian pause" snuck in, read this piece. It's a good piece.
“If it’s perceived as a Squad thing, and other members feel they can’t touch it, then so be it.” How the word “ceasefire” divided the left https://t.co/zUWP1kgNpG
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“If it’s perceived as a Squad thing, and other members feel they can’t touch it, then so be it.” How the word “ceasefire” divided the left https://t.co/zUWP1kgNpG
newyorker.com
The Democratic coalition once seemed united in its staunch, unquestioning support for the country. Today, that consensus seems to be cracking.
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NYPD officers have made over *1 million* traffic stops since Mayor Adams took office. Black drivers were ~9x more likely to get searched than white divers.
gothamist.com
Of those arrested, nearly 90% have been Black or Latino.
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Genius idea to make Rahm Emanuel a diplomat
President Biden’s aides have asked that Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, stop posting messages on social media taunting Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to administration officials.
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It’s my second week of college and I’m hiding in my dorm. This is nauseating. @StudentsDemand
Police are responding to an “armed and dangerous person” on the University of North Carolina campus. There are reports of shots fired.
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This is a piece about what we inherit and what to do with that inheritance. The print version, in this week's @NewYorker, is titled "The Gift." https://t.co/SbF6TLPrUo
newyorker.com
The Hunt family owns one of the largest private oil companies in the country. Leah Hunt-Hendrix funds social movements that want to end the use of fossil fuels.
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Justice Alito doesn’t hold one of the six seats that Congress created in the Judiciary Act of 1789. His seat was created on March 3, 1837—when Congress created the Eighth and Ninth Circuits. Lucky for him that Congress had the power to regulate the Court’s size…
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Are we still doing bsky? @saaarah.bsky.social.
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Florida’s public schools will now teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills, part of new African American history standards approved Wednesday.
nbcnews.com
The standards, which were blasted by a statewide teachers' union as a "step backward," were approved Wednesday by the State Board of Education.
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So, the president of Stanford and the head football coach at Northwestern lost their jobs because of the reporting of student journalists. Great job by the students. It makes me reflect on what is lost when local news coverage--of a campus, town, city or county--disappears.
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Location: 108th Precinct Complaint #485 Response Time: 6 mins "The Police Department responded to the complaint and determined that police action was not necessary." https://t.co/pHjC7ktmqT
#NY_29825MB #NYPD108PctIllegalParking @NYPD108Pct @CMJulieWon @QueensCB2
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.@CorrectionNYC Louis Molina just told the BOC that his media team stopped issuing press releases when detainees die b/c that's a more "humane" policy for families. To clarify: DOC press releases were only sent out after family members had been notified. https://t.co/nDA9XhddXx
thecity.nyc
The Department of Correction says that the de Blasio-era practice of notifying the press when someone dies in a detention facility is over. Advocacy groups and a federal monitor say it’s part of a...
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Federal monitor: Correction Commissioner Molina is failing to keep jails safe (“The current rates of [officer] use of force, stabbing and slashing, fights, assaults on staff, and in-custody deaths are not typical, they are not expected, they are not normal.”) Mayor Adams:
Despite Rikers being under heavy criticism by a federal monitor who says the corrections agency has not been transparent, Adams says Molina is doing a “goddam good job.”
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i stan @WIRED so fucking hard for this
wired.com
They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.
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