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Amanda Carpenter

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1334 total appearances

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The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

People are being disappeared.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

You can't find them.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

They're not getting adequate legal representation.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

And so...

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

Thank God you're talking about people who have come out to do the right thing.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

It's my understanding that this guy was like a training officer down in Georgia.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

The incredible risk that he is taking to say, yeah, this is a policy is courageous, but also tremendously helpful because we need to establish that these aren't just one-off mistakes by under-trained officers.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

that this is a policy, as we've suspected, because that's the only way we can hope to get any kind of accountability because this is clearly unconstitutional.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

Yeah.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

So this actually isn't election related, but it is super, super important.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

It is moving in a number of states.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

And let me tell you about what it does.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

So in a lot of states where, say, you know, an ICE agent murders your spouse.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

You don't have the ability to sue a federal officer like you would someone from the state or local police.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

There's reasons for that.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

It has to do with something that's called a cause of action that was winnowed by the Supreme Court.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

But what states can do and should do now is address that accountability gap with some legislation that provides residents that cause of action.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

And so we call it the broad kind of reform bill is the universal constitutional remedies act in the States.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

Many times they have different names.

The Bulwark Podcast
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die

I think the acronym for the one in New Jersey is F U C K ice, um, which is very, uh,