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- 006 Top Priority | The Trial Process & Criminal Justice Reform
Show: 006 Top Priority Podcast | The Trial Process & Criminal Justice Reform
Date Recorded: May 7, 2020
Host: Duane Lester, Manager of Issue Education, Grassroots Leadership Academy
Guests: Greg Glod, CJR Fellow, Americans for Prosperity Foundation
- What is the Stand Together Community VISION for the Trial Process? min [2:08]
- What is charge stacking? min [5:05]
- What does good like in the Trial Process? min [14:06]
- Many issues in the trial process stem from the unintended consequences of Overcriminalization min [17:45]
Additional Resources
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
- Ep 002 Top Priority | Overcriminalization & Criminal Justice Reform
27 min - 005 **Just in Time** Section 230 of Communications Decency Act
Show: 005 Top Priority Podcast | **Just in Time** Section 230
Date Recorded: May 29, 2020
Host: Duane Lester, Manager of Issue Education, Grassroots Leadership Academy
Guests: Jesse Blumenthal, VP of Tech & Innovation, Stand Together- What is Section 230 and how is the Stand Together Community thinking about Section 230? min [1:30]
- What is the difference between a publisher or a platform? min [11:25]
- How do we apply the Stand Together Community VISION—to break barriers that stand in the way of people realizing their potential—to Section 230? min [13:49]
- How our Community views Section 230 through the lens of the first mutually-reinforcing principle—Equal Rights. min [17:55]
- How our Community views Section 230 through the lens of the second mutually-reinforcing principle—Mutual Benefit. min [20:45]
- How our Community views Section 230 through the lens of the third mutually-reinforcing principle—Openness. min [24:13]
- How our Community views Section 230 through the lens of the fourth mutually-reinforcing principle—Self-Actualization. min [24:35]
**Additional Resources**
- 7 Principles for Reforming Section 230 (and none include policing internet speech)
- Principles for Continued American Tech Leadership
- What 20 Years of Internet Law Teaches Us about Innovation Policy by Adam Thierer
- Permissionless Innovation by Adam Thierer
34 min - 004 *Just in Time* Qualified Immunity and Criminal Justice Reform
Show: 004 Top Priority Podcast | **Just in Time** Qualified Immunity & Criminal Justice Reform
Date Recorded: June 8, 2020
Host: Duane Lester, Manager of Issue Education, Grassroots Leadership Academy
Guests: Greg Glod, CJR Fellow, Americans for Prosperity Foundation
Casey Mattox, Senior Fellow, Free Speech & Toleration, Charles Koch Institute
- What is Qualified Immunity? min [2:25]
- What is the rationale for the establishment of Qualified Immunity? min [9:00]
- Through the lens our VISION, to break barriers that stand in the way of people realizing their potential, what barriers does Qualified Immunity erect? min [12:00]
You cannot have a Key Institution of Government working correctly, if government is able to violate an individual’s rights and not be held accountable for that violation.
- Who is supportive of Qualified Immunity and why? min [20:10]
- Without Qualified Immunity, how are police officers protected from bogus lawsuits? min [23:15]
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30 min - 003 Top Priority | Policing & Criminal Justice Reform
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Show DetailsShow: 003 Top Priority Podcast | Policing & Criminal Justice Reform
Date Recorded: May 20, 2020
Host: Duane Lester, Manager of Issue Education, Grassroots Leadership Academy
Guests: Brianna Walden, Associate Director for Criminal Justice Reform, Stand Together
Show Notes & Timestamps
- What are the five categories of Criminal Justice Reform? min [1:05]
- Overcriminalization – What are the laws on the books and how does the proliferation of laws over criminalizes the citizenry?
- Policing – How are the laws being enforced in communities?
- Due Process – Are those being accused of a crime afforded their Constitutionally guaranteed rights?
- Sentencing – Is the punishment proportional to the crime?
- Prison and reentry – How to prioritize rehabilitation and allow the formerly incarcerated the best chance to be contributors in society?
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- What is the entire portfolio of policing and over-policing? min [5:05]
- What are non-criminalizing alternatives to keeping communities safe? min [8:40]
- What is Civil Asset Forfeiture and Policing for Profit? min [10:41]
- 3 things that erode trust and collaboration between the police and communities: min [19:02]
- The number of laws on the books forces police to have to enforce bad laws, over criminalizes the citizenry, creates unnecessary points of contact between the police and community members, and diverts scarce justice system resources away from serious and violent crimes.
- Perverse incentives like Civil Asset Forfeiture, arrest quotas, and qualified immunity.
- A negative police culture such as a code of silence and intervention from police unions that stifles change,
- How our Community views Policing through the lens of the first mutually-reinforcing principle—Equal Rights. min [25:05]
- How our Community views Policing through the lens of the second mutually-reinforcing principle—Mutual Benefit. min [29:20]
- How our Community views Policing through the lens of the third mutually-reinforcing principle—Openness. min [30:40]
- How our Community views Policing through the lens of the third mutually-reinforcing principle—Self-Actualization. min [33:35]
**Additional Resource**
- Stand Together Catalyst
- The Other Side Academy
- Lone Star Justice Alliance
- The Story of Russ Caswell | Institute for Justice
- The Policing Project
- Read: Share a commitment to justice
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41 min - 002 Top Priority | Overcriminalization and Criminal Justice Reform
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Show: 002 Top Priority Podcast | Overcriminalization, Criminal Justice Reform Priority Initiative
Date Recorded: December 17, 2019
Host: Duane Lester, Manager of Issue Education, Grassroots Leadership Academy
Guests: Vikrant Reddy, Senior Fellow, Charles Koch Institute
Show Notes & Timestamps
- Why should Americans care about Overcriminalization? min [1:31]
The average American commits three felonies per day because the penal code is so vast, expansive, and unknowable at the federal, state, and local level. min [2:30]
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”
—Lavrentiy Beria, the ruthless and brutal secret police chief to Joseph Stalin—- Why is the Stand Together Community involved in Criminal Justice Reform and reducing Overcriminalization? min [3:27]
- What is the difference between criminal law and civil law? min [5:05]
- Our Community believes two criteria must be met for a law to be a criminal law min [6:20]:
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The violation must have, (1) an identifiable victim —AND— (2) a direct victim
- How does our Community approach reducing Overcriminalization through the framework of our Vision—transforming society by breaking barriers? min [8:20]
- How our Community views Overcriminalization through the lens of the first mutually-reinforcing principle—Equal Rights. min [13:55]
**Overcriminalization creates a perverse incentive system for unequal application of the law.**
“If you don’t know what the law is, it is impossible to obey it.” —Vikrant Reddy—
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43 min - 001 Top Priority | Foreign Policy
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Show: 001 Top Priority Podcast | Foreign Policy Priority Initiative
Date Recorded: December 18, 2019
Host: Duane Lester, Manager of Issue Education, Grassroots Leadership Academy
Guests: John Byrnes, Director of Issue Education, Concerned Veterans for America Foundation
Tyler Koteskey, Policy Analyst, Americans for Prosperity Foundation
Juliana Heerschap, Director of Policy Engagement, Concerned Veterans for America Foundation
Show Notes & Timestamps
- Why is the Stand Together Community involved in Foreign Policy? min [4:07]
- What is our Community position on Foreign Policy? min [6:40]
Our mutually reinforcing principle, Openness, informs:
(1) Our Community’s philosophical default position on Foreign Policy
(2) How we expect our government to engage with the world
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Our Community, too, draws on sentiments from George Washington & Thomas Jefferson:
“It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world.”
—George Washington’s Farewell Address to the Nation—
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none.”
—Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address—- As a Community, when do we think our country should go to war? min [13:13]
Our Community believes four criteria must be met before going to war:
- Is there vital national interest at stake? Namely is there (a) A threat to our ability to protect our liberal, democratic system at home? —OR— (b) A threat to the long-term prosperity and wellbeing of the United States?
- Is there a clear strategy for war and the ability to achieve a specifically stated objective?
- Is there Congressional approval as the US Constitution demands?
- Is there a clear exit strategy in place for disengaging from war when the objectives are met?
- What does it mean to end our endless wars and how do we define an exit strategy? min [6:40]
- What does our Community mean by a Foreign Policy of Realism and Restraint? min [37:30]
- Does our Community stance on Foreign Policy mean we are anti-military? min [41:40]
Our Community stance on Foreign Policy is first and foremost one of respecting the humanity of our service men and women. We want to protect the wellbeing of our troops and we expect our government use the voluntary service of service men and women, in war, only when it is absolutely necessary and when government meets the four criteria before engaging in war.
- We aren’t anti-war, our Community is anti-bad war. min [47:11]
- How does United States Trade Policy fit into Foreign Policy? min [48:09]
- How our Community views Foreign Policy through the lens of the four mutually reinforcing principles of our Vision: Equal Rights | Mutual Benefit | Openness | Self-Actualization
min [54:30]
**Additional Resource: Watch Nate Anderson, Executive Director, Concerned Veterans for America at January 2020 Stand Together Summit | Ending the Moral, Fiscal, Constitutional, and Security Crises of Endless Wars | There is a better way. Together we can end endless wars.**
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About Top Priority | Ideas for Human Flourishing
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We have a deep belief in people and promote ideas of human flourishing.
Top Priority is a collection of interactive, learning-oriented conversations on how the Stand Together Community engages with and advocates for solutions through the lens of our Community Vision: We transform society by breaking the internal and external barriers that prevent people from realizing their potential, enabling all people to improve their lives and find fulfillment by helping others do the same.
The Stand Together Community Vision is guided by four, mutually reinforcing principles: Equal Rights | Mutual Benefit | Openness | Self-Actualization
Explore the free and civil society through the lens of each of these four mutually reinforcing principles and stand together to help every person rise.
Top Priority is a production of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's Grassroots Leadership Academy, where we make Human Flourishing a top priority.