The Sentencing of Paul Manafort; Sen. Stewart-Cousins and the NYS Budget; City University Names New Boss; Restorative Justice for Violent Crime
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 14, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy and host of the Trump, Inc. podcast at WNYC and Jennifer Rodgers, former federal prosecutor and lecturer at Columbia Law School, break down the latest sentencing of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
- State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-35) talks about the New York State Senate Democrats' priorities for the budget as negotiations continue ahead of the April 1 deadline.
- Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, president of Queens College and Chancellor-designate of The City University of New York, discusses his vision for the future of the nation’s largest urban public university system and one of the country’s most potent engines of social mobility.
- Danielle Sered, restorative justice advocate, founder of the Brooklyn-based Common Justice and the author of Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair (The New Press, 2019), argues that the restorative justice process offers a better solution to violent crime than mass incarceration.
