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The Immigration Implications of Presidential Pot Pardons

Introduction On October 6, 2022, President Biden issued a proclamation pardoning most federal and Washington D.C. (D.C.) offenders—including lawful permanent residents—who have committed the offense of simple marijuana possession as defined by the...

Democratizing Abolition

Abstract When abolitionists discuss remedies for past and present injustices, they are frequently met with apparently pragmatic objections to the viability of such bold remedies in U.S. legislatures and courts held captive by reactionary forces...

An Abolitionist Critique of Quality-of-Life Policing

Abstract Policing “disability in public” refers to the ways in which coerced compliance with norms for appearing, walking, talking, thinking, or otherwise existing, render disabled people more vulnerable to citation, arrests, or imprisonment even...

The Racialized History of Vice Policing

Abstract Vice policing targets the consumption and commercialization of certain pleasures that have been criminalized in the United States—such as the purchase of narcotics and sexual services. One might assume that vice policing is concerned with...

Building a World Without Police

About the Author Sandy Hudson is a recent graduate from UCLA Law where she specialized in Critical Race Theory. Sandy founded Black Lives Matter - Canada, and also co-founded the Black Legal Action Centre, a specialty legal aid clinic in Ontario...