Objection to the Rule

Hosts Emily Scott, Max Carter, and guest Jamie Lerner discuss the NYPD's use of facial recognition technology on juveniles, a Manhattan federal appeals court ruling on bail arrangements, and a new NYC program aimed at tackling food insecurity; the governor of Puerto Rico stepping down, Arizona suing the Sackler family, and the questioning of FAA leaders over the Boeing 737 Max; and a power-sharing deal in Sudan. 

What happens when a church at the heart of a Brooklyn community chooses to educate and incubate entrepreneurs on what was once a stigmatized industry?

Special guest Nicolle Monroe tells us how the women-centered legal cannabis enterprise Women Grow is helping her community get into a business once stigmatized, now with the potential to lead the change.

Host Theresa Robbinson leads the conversation.

Hosts Emily Scott, Max Carter, and Rachel Cleary discuss NYC landlords suing over rent regulation laws, updates in the Eric Garner case, and fundraising efforts by the nonprofit Picture the Homeless; ICE raids, the early release of federal inmates as part of the First Step Act, and the removal of gendered nouns from the law books in Berkeley, CA; and the seizure of an oil tanker by Iran.

Hosts Max Carter, Theresa Robbinson, and Emily Scott discuss a proposed plan to close Rikers Island, unequal access to the bike-sharing program Citi Bike, and a recount for the Democratic primary for Queens district attorney; the Jeffrey Epstein case, Trump giving up on including a citizenship question on the 2020 census, and ICE expanding into new detention centers in the South; New Zealand's first gun buyback, and Iran's breaching of the nuclear deal.

Hosts Theresa Robbinson and Emily Scott discuss a series of bills designed to protect transgender, intersex, and gender-nonconforming or nonbinary people in custody in NYC; the repeal of a religious exemption for vaccinations in New York, and the death of another cyclist on NYC streets; the Democratic debates, the Queer Liberation March, and Supreme Court decisions; a humanitarian migrant boat rescue on the Mediterranean Sea, protests in Madrid over the reversal of car pollution restrictions, and Trump and Kim Jong-un meeting in the Korean demilitarized zone.

Hosts Emily Scott, Max Carter, and Violet Baron discuss the movement to decriminalize sex work in New York, and paid personal time off in NYC; another mass shooting in the U.S., a spike in the deaths of grey whales on the west coast, and dangerous overcrowing at an immigrant detention center in El Paso, Texas; and a meeting of 21 Arab nations to unite against Iran.

Max Carter, Emily Scott, Rachel Cleary, and guest host Eryn Levine discuss homelessness in NYC, new minimum wage rules for Uber drivers, and biometric security systems in rent-regulated apartments; Mueller Report updates, a settlement in a case involving the fatal police shooting of an unarmed citizen, and sexual assault in the military; and attempts at power around the globe.

This week, hosts Violet Baron, Theresa Robbinson and Emily Scott talk the ethics of mandatory vaccination for the Orthodox community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, plus Ilhan Omar facing backlash again and an arrest in Ecuador for Julian Assange.

This week on Objection to the Rule, hosts Violet Baron, Max Carter and Emily Scott discuss the federal backlash to Trump's attempts at rolling back Obamacare protections, and The Vatican's new laws on sexual abuse by clergy. Plus, we consider what a new ban on single-use plastic bags will mean for NYC.

Rachel Cleary joins us by phone.

Who advocates for a 4-year-old unaccompanied migrant when she has her day in court? Rich Leimsider, Executive Director of the Safe Passage Project, joins us to tell how his organization provides legal aid to immigrant children in and around NYC.