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Placing politics over facts, values & people& #39;s lives, @NYGovCuomo @AndreaSCousins @CarlHeastie have jammed astounding rollbacks to our #bailreform & @BlindfoldRepeal laws into the budget. Thousands more will be forced into jail & have their due process rights violated every day.
The @NYSenateDems are convening any minute to vote. The @NYSA_Majority in a few hours. We still have time to make our voices heard. Tweet at your Senator & Assemblymember RIGHT NOW and tell them to #VOTENO on #bailreform and #discovery rollbacks!!
. @FelixWOrtiz & @NYSenatorFelder: #VOTENO on the budget. #bailreform & @BlindfoldRepeal have been working since they went into effect on January 1st. When the #COVID19 epidemic reached NY, these laws became critical public health protections. We cannot go backwards. #norollbacks
While the rest of the country is working to get people out of jail and prison, @NYGovCuomo @AndreaSCousins & @CarlHeastie are going to incarcerate MORE people and undermine their Constitutional rights. Unbelievable. #VOTENO on #bailreform and @BlindfoldRepeal rollbacks.
Worth noting that the enactment date on proposed bail & discovery law rollbacks is 90 days. We had to wait 8 mo. for the current laws to go into effect. We are in the midst of a pandemic wherein @NYGovCuomo himself has said we should expect this crisis to last far beyond 3 mo.
The #bailreform rollback enactment date is clearly politically motivated. @NYGovCuomo @AndreaSCousins @CarlEHeastie KNOW that increasing incarceration will exacerbate the #COVID19 crisis. They know the crisis will extend beyond 90 days.
. @NYGovCuomo @AndreaSCousins @CarlHeastie want to be able to say "we didn& #39;t sentence 1000s more 2 death by #COVID19 @ height of the pandemic", but still enact #bailreform rollbacks before general elections bc this has always been about politics not policy. How cynical can you be?
