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"That's part of the great arc of history sweeping towards justice," he told CP24.
"That's part of the great arc of history sweeping towards justice," he told the television station CP24.
He survived a 1986 election that, sweeping Chief Justice Rose Bird and two fellow liberals from the court, cleared the way for the first conservative majority in 30 years.
It only took Hillary Clinton six months after first calling for sweeping criminal justice reform and an end to mass incarceration for her to announce on Thursday that she would no longer accept direct donations from private prison lobbyists.
His agenda includes boosting the minimum wage to $15 an hour, pay equity for women, a $1 trillion jobs program to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure that would create millions of jobs, sweeping criminal justice reform, expanding Medicare to cover everyone, free tuition at public colleges and universities, and robust action on climate change.
Advisers said the ruling crystallized for Mr. Obama just how sweeping the chief justice was willing to be.
The Court's reasoning was pretty technical and noticeably lacking in sweeping language about justice and fairness.
Language elsewhere in the majority opinion was quite sweeping, leading Justice John Paul Stevens, in the dissenting opinion, to assert that "the court's view of reliance is unduly stringent and unmoored from authority".
With the forthcoming Agenda to Build Black Futures, a sweeping economic justice platform to be released 1 February, the Black Youth Project will be calling for expanded reparations both in Chicago and nationwide that might help people such as Escamilla.
The announcement came just a few weeks after city council speaker Melissa Mannouncedito announced a sweeping criminal justice reform proposal in her state of the city address that would decriminalize quality of life offenses citywide and purge as many as 1.5m old summons warrants from the city's books.
