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In 2020, Ho was a member of a panel that stayed a preliminary injunction entered by U.S. District Judge Samuel Frederick Biery Jr. that expanded the right to use a mail-in ballot to all Texas voters during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (allowing broader use of mail-in voting than under the Texas Election Code, which entitled only Texas voters ...
Dale Edwin Ho (born 1977) [2] is an American lawyer serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Prior to becoming a judge, he was the director of the American Civil Liberties Union 's voting rights project.
Criminal justice reform seeks to address structural issues in criminal justice systems such as racial profiling, police brutality, overcriminalization, mass incarceration, and recidivism. Reforms can take place at any point where the criminal justice system intervenes in citizens’ lives, including lawmaking, policing, sentencing and ...
Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) is an American nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1991 to challenge mandatory sentencing laws and advocate for criminal justice reform. [1] FAMM promotes sentencing policies that give judges the discretion to distinguish between defendants and sentence them according to their role in the ...
If enacted, SB 1450 would be a partial rollback of State Question 780, the 2016 voter-approved criminal justice reform measure that reclassified several drug and property offenses from felonies to ...
The First Step Act, formally known as the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act, is a bipartisan criminal justice bill passed by the 115th U.S. Congress and signed by President Donald Trump in December 2018.
Judge Circuit Nomination date Confirmation date Confirmation vote Began active service [7] Ended active service Ended senior status 1 Ketanji Brown Jackson: D.C. April 19, 2021: June 14, 2021: 53–44 [A 1] June 17, 2021: June 29, 2022: Elevated 2 Candace Jackson-Akiwumi: Seventh: April 19, 2021: June 24, 2021: 53–40 [A 2] July 1, 2021 ...
The afternoon announcement by the chief judge in Miami-Dade, Nushin Sayfie, said the rollout of the bail-reform plan expected for later this year would be shelved until the criminal-justice ...