2022 Primary Election
For centuries, the executive branch has disparately and disproportionately pumped Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor people into the judiciary for prosecution and punishment. In response, the judiciary has done hardly anything substantively to deter that behavior and in fact actively perpetuates its continuance. We believe that it does little to help stop and/or heal this devastation by being “impartial” only on a case-by-case basis when the pipeline into the system disparately treats whole groups of people. Changing the latter requires an acknowledgment of the role the judiciary played and currently plays in this devastation, a firm commitment to public accountability through the public reporting of data that can reveal groups being disparately and/or disproportionately punished/prosecuted, and judges willing to develop a plan to ensure that the judiciary serves as a “check on” and “balance to” the executive branch.