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Gov. Newsom said he will veto a bill that would limit youth tackle football. Also, remembering the late Sacramento Councilmember Lauren Hammond. Finally, McGeorge School of Law is celebrating its centennial. Newsom Sacks Bill Limiting Youth Tackle Football CapRadio Healthcare Reporter Kate Wolffe updates a bill that would limit youth tackle football over concerns that it could lead to chronic brain injuries. The legislation was authored by Democratic Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, who is also a Sacramento mayoral candidate. It sparked passionate debate about safety and parental rights. But the bill has been stopped in its tracks. Gov. Newsom has said he would veto the legislation if it passed the State Legislature. Kate explains why McCarty has said he will not move forward with the bill.  Remembering Late Councilmember Lauren Hammond A pioneering Sacramento leader has passed away. Former City Councilmember Lauren Hammond, the first Black woman elected to the governing body, died last Thursday at the age of 68. State Sen. Angelique Ashby, current District 8 Councilmember Mai Vang, and former Sacramento Mayor Heather Fargo join Insight for a remembrance of Hammond, who was not only a trailblazing leader, but also an influential mentor. McGeorge Law School Celebrates 100 Years Sacramento's McGeorge School of Law is celebrating its centennial this year.  The school, which started as a one-room night school in downtown Sacramento in 1924, has grown to become one of California's premiere law schools. Joining us today on Insight is Michael Hunter Schwartz, dean of the McGeorge Law School, who was recently named as one of the country's most influential people in legal education.

Rachelle Barbour has worked as an Assistant Federal Defender at the Sacramento federal court for over 20 years. She also heads up the CJS clinic at McGeorge Law School. Her most prominent case has been that of Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen, who was accused of being an ISIS commander and murdering a police officer in Iraq. He was acquitted of those charges in April as a federal judge ruled this was physically impossible because Ameen was not in Iraq at the time of the alleged murder. However, he remains detained in an ICE facility, has been detained for more than 1000 days and facing extradition. As Barbour explained, if sent back to Iraq to face criminal charges, he faces certain death by execution – most likely through extra-legal means. This week, the Immigrant Legal Defense and the University of Chicago Immigrants' Rights Clinic announced they filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on his behalf, seeking his immediate release. “The government seems to think that it can do whatever it wants as long as it invokes the word ‘terrorism,'” said Nicole Hallett, director of the Immigrants' Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School. Listen as Rachelle Barbour discusses the Ameen case as well as her experience working as a Federal Defender and her work with CJS.

Daniel Robinson is a retired lawyer from California. He has a BA from UC Riverside, an MA from Stanford, and a JD from McGeorge Law School. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Venezuela from 1966 to 1968. He's married with two children and two grandchildren.Hitchhiking Across America: 1963Atmosphere Press, 2021A World Without Books was created to help writers connect with readers during the pandemic. This Micro-Podcast provides authors a platform to share stories about writing, discuss current projects, and consider life without books. Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you podcast.Without Books®, a division of Heritage Future, is an author-centric book initiative. Our resources support writers and we provide access to millions of books for readers around the world.

Marjorie Florestal is a trauma-informed law professor, storyteller, and fiction writer who trained in the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM). Sarah and Marjorie discuss the integration of trauma, law, storytelling, and ways to support healing through a trauma-informed lens.  While still a law professor, Marjorie completed a Masters' degree in Jungian Psychology where she met Brad Kammer, NARM Senior Faculty. Marjorie shares how she was greatly impacted by Brad's teaching, not only professionally but also personally.  She followed her intuition that learning the NeuroAffective Relational Model would somehow benefit her in better supporting her law students.  Marjorie and Sarah discuss the struggles many law students have with their mental health, specifically in their last year of school. Marjorie states, “40% of our students are clinically depressed and then it just snowballs from there into the profession.” She plans to utilize what she's learned in her NARM training and incorporate that into her class that she's developing called “Trauma-Informed Lawyering”. Marjorie hopes that if we can help law students with trauma, we can change the culture of the whole profession.  Marjorie also shares her experience as being a woman of color in teaching law, and how she relates to the current state of criminal justice in the United States. She shares, "as a black woman I could not fathom being part of a system that wholesale channels people of color into cages.” Marjorie recently facilitated an hour-long session at her law school looking at racial trauma and the healing potential of myths and stories. This episode concludes with Marjorie sharing a beautiful story called, The Stolen Mother Moon. She expresses that she has a personal connection to the story due to the loss of her mother when she was nine. She relates this story to collective trauma, symbolic of the stolen mothers from Africa who were abused and enslaved yet they persevered and demanded justice. She states, “there will always be darkness, and we can see that darkness as an opportunity for more work to be done.” *** Marjorie Florestal has been a lawyer and law professor for over 25 years. She began her career as an international trade and development lawyer for the Clinton Administration before heading up a multimillion dollar project of technical assistance training for subSaharan Africa. Marjorie later became a full-time, tenured professor at McGeorge Law School in Sacramento where she began to recognize the role of trauma in legal education. This spark of the unexpected led her to the Masters program in Jungian psychology at Sonoma State University, and she is completing a PhD in human development at Fielding Graduate University. Marjorie continues to teach law part-time at the University of California, Davis. When not occupied with issues of trauma and healing, she writes legal thrillers and is a pet mom to four unruly dogs. To read the full show notes and discover more resources visit http://www.narmtraining.com/podcast *** NARM Training Institute http://www.NARMtraining.com View upcoming Level 2 NARM Therapist Trainings: http://www.narmtraining.com/Level2Online *** The NARM Training Institute provides tools for transforming complex trauma through: in-person and online trainings for mental health care professionals; in-person and online workshops on complex trauma and how it interplays with areas like addiction, parenting, and cultural trauma; an online self-paced learning program, the NARM Inner Circle; and other trauma-informed learning resources.   We want to connect with you! Facebook @NARMtraining Twitter @NARMtraining YouTube Instagram @thenarmtraininginstitute

Phil Vaughns describes growing up in Oakland, attending and playing football at Skyline High School, going on to Cal State Hayward (East Bay) before attending McGeorge Law School. He had an unusual first job experience in Vienna, Austria. That was where his mother's insistence that he learn some German earlier in life came in handy. Phil served in the Alameda County DA's office and the Office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California in Oakland. He now has an active Immigration and Criminal practice in Hayward.From Phil's Website:A full-service law office specializing in immigration, criminal law, and entertainment industry services. Mr. Vaughns brings over 20 years of experience to bear in assisting clients.As a former state and Federal prosecutor, Mr. Vaughns understands the mechanics of prosecuting criminal cases and uses that knowledge to negotiate favorable dispositions and, when necessary, to zealously defend his clients at trial. Felony or misdemeanor, state or Federal, no criminal defense is beyond his skill and ability. Having prosecuted Federal immigration cases, Mr. Vaughns possesses - and maintains - intimate knowledge of immigration law issues. Deportation defense is a specialty of the office. Adjustment of status to Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card), fiance visas, work permits, and citizenship applications are also commonly provided services.lovethylawyer.comA Transcript of this podcast is available at lovethylawyer.com (Blog).Phil Vaughns http://www.vaughnslaw.net/ Louis Goodman www.louisgoodman.com louisgoodman2010@gmail.com 510.582.9090 Musical theme by Joel Katz, Seaside Recording, Maui Technical support: Bryan Matheson, Skyline Studios, Oakland We'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at louisgoodman2010@gmail.com. Please subscribe and listen. Then tell us who you want to hear and what areas of interest you’d like us to cover. Please rate us and review us on Apple Podcasts.

By Chris Nichols If Your Time Is Short As California’s attorney general, Kamala Harris was labeled “cautious” and “deliberate” on some criminal justice reform issues.  Some legal experts say Harris, in her role as AG, was legally and ethically constrained and could not set the state’s policy priorities. Others say Harris had the power to make more change but chose not to. California Sen. Kamala Harris is known for taking bold stands on criminal justice reform in Congress and has vowed to do the same as Joe Biden’s running mate.  But that was not always the case. As the California attorney general and San Francisco district attorney before that, Harris was often labeled in news articles and op-eds as “deliberate” and even “cautious to a fault” on reform issues. During her time as AG, Harris refused to take public positions on state ballot measures to decriminalize marijuana, reduce criminal sentences and abolish the death penalty, which Harris has long said she personally opposes. She also stayed silent on Assembly Bill 86, which would have required the attorney general’s office to appoint a special prosecutor to examine fatal shootings by the police. Harris explained in an MSNBC interview last year that her resistance stemmed from her own fight as San Francisco’s top prosecutor to exercise discretion over an investigation into the shooting death of a police officer. In what’s believed to be the first time she’s publicly acknowledged her shift in position, she said in the same May 2019 interview that police shootings should undergo independent investigations rather than having local district attorneys handle them. During her three years in the U.S. Senate, Harris has shifted on other positions, too. She now favors legalizing marijuana nationwide, ending cash bail and placing a moratorium on the federal death penalty. Critics say Harris should have taken these positions long ago and is only doing so now because it’s “trendy,” as one criminal justice advocate wrote in a widely-shared New York Times op-ed last year. And some legal experts say there was nothing that blocked her from speaking out as an elected prosecutor.  However, other experts say it is more complicated. They say Harris chipped away at inequities in the criminal justice system but was constrained in how much she could do or say. Mary-Beth Moylan, associate dean at McGeorge Law School in Sacramento, said the overly cautious label is not entirely fair. In her role as AG, Harris was not in charge of setting California’s priorities.  “To me, a number of the positions that I think she’s been able to take as U.S. Senator were ones that I don’t think she could have or should have taken as attorney general,” Moylan said, citing legal and ethical barriers.  As AG, Harris represented the state and was bound to defend existing laws and policy, Moylan added. One example is the state’s death penalty law, which Harris defended in court. “So, there’s an attorney-client relationship there,” she said. “And there’s also a clear distinction in the California constitution that the governor sets the state policy. So the attorney general needs to be subordinate in terms of making policy statements to the governor. And then also needs to be the lawyer for the governor and the other constitutional officers and so can’t get kind of out ahead of or sideways to their policies.”  Harris’ supporters point to several achievements as a prosecutor as evidence she worked to improve the criminal justice system. They include: The Back On Track program in 2005, which was designed to help nonviolent, first-time drug offenders transition back to their communities and prevent recidivism. Her 2015 launch of Open Justice, a criminal-justice open-data initiative that provides information on deaths in police custody, including those that occur during arrests, as well as arrest rates by race and ethnicity. It also provides data on officers who are killed or assaulted on the job. Her creation of the first statewide implicit bias training for law enforcement personnel in 2015. It called for a focus on six areas of policing that "emphasize respect, listening, neutrality and trust, while recognizing and addressing implicit biases that can be barriers to these approaches," according to a news release at the time from the AG’s office. Still, other legal experts say Harris had the power to make more change as AG, but failed to use it.   Irene Joe, a UC Davis law professor who has tracked Harris’ career, says she could have refused to defend the death penalty law and voiced stronger opinions. “As the attorney general, as a prosecutor, you are permitted to take whatever steps,” are necessary, Joe said. “We rely on their discretion. So, she certainly could have taken a step to not support that.”  Harris had promised voters she would uphold California’s death penalty law during her run for AG. Gabriel Chin, also a UC Davis law professor, added in an email that “DAs and AGs routinely state their opinions and lobby on policy proposals pending before legislatures and the voters. As experts in the criminal justice system, it would make no sense for them not to propose legislation and comment on it.” Lateefah Simon is a civil rights activist who worked for Harris when she was San Francisco’s DA. Simon said Harris could not overturn all the wrongs of the criminal justice system at once.  “She was trying to undo slowly a system that had been burdening communities of color for generations,” Simon said on CapRadio’s Insight program this week.  Experts also acknowledged that law enforcement’s conservative culture may have contributed to Harris’ reticence.   “It is very common for prosecutors to do everything they can to maintain good relations with law enforcement agencies, because they depend on working closely with them to investigate cases and make arrests,” Chin wrote.  Related:  Kamala Harris: Criminal justice reformer, or defender of the status quo? The record is mixed Kamala Harris Is Biden's VP Pick. Here's A Closer Look At Her Record In California. Harris did not call Biden a racist during her busing attack Did Kamala Harris flip-flop on independent probes of police shootings? Source List Mary-Beth Moylan, associate dean, McGeorge Law School, video interview Aug. 12, 2020 Irene Joe, UC Davis law professor, video interview Aug. 12, 2020 Lateefah Simon, civil rights activist, CapRadio Insight interview Aug. 12, 2020 Gabriel Chin, UC Davis law professor, email interview Aug. 12, 2020 PolitiFact California, Kamala Harris: Criminal justice reformer, or defender of the status quo? The record is mixed, Jan. 29, 2020 CapRadio, Kamala Harris Is Biden's VP Pick. Here's A Closer Look At Her Record In California., Aug. 11, 2020 PolitiFact California, Did Kamala Harris flip-flop on independent probes of police shootings?, May 23, 2020 Sacramento Bee, Kamala Harris picks her fights as criminal justice crusader, May 1, 2016 Lara Bazelon, op-ed in The New York Times, "Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor.’" Jan. 17, 2019 Courthouse News Service, Harris Vows to End Death Penalty, Money Bail as President, Sept. 9, 2019

(January 24, 2013) Dr J is invited to McGeorge Law School in Sacramento to speak at the Federalist Society sponsored event "Clashing Visions of Freedom: The State v. the Family in the Social Issues."

Steve Alexander - the McGeorge Law School team competition.

Steve Alexander - the McGeorge Law School team competition.