The Memo and the Russia Investigations; Studying Campus Assault Patterns; Probation & Parole; Mexican American Identity

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 6, 2018

Coming up on today's show:

  • U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler (D, NY-10), ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, responds to the Nunes memo.  Then Jennifer Rodgers, former federal prosecutor and executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School, weighs in on the Mueller investigation.
  • New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino talks about her reporting on SHIFT, a wide-ranging, in-depth look at sexual health and behavior among Columbia's undergraduates, for answers to the campus sexual assault issue. 
  • Vincent Schiraldi, senior research scientist at Columbia University’s Justice Lab, and former commissioner of NYC’s department of probation,  talks about his recent reports on the effect probation and parole policies have on keeping incarceration numbers high and Vidal Guzman, a community organizer at Just Leadership USA, tells his own story of the impact of the parole system on his life.
  • Laura Gómez, professor of law, sociology and Chicana/o studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and the author of Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race, Second Edition (NYU Press, 2018), revisits her groundbreaking work in light of the Trump campaign and presidency.

 

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