Rory is the founding attorney of Fleming Law LLC, an immigration law boutique in Philadelphia. He has worked for a variety of criminal justice and harm reduction nonprofits, including Law Enforcement Action Partnership and Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project, and provided campaign services for over a dozen district attorney campaigns. His articles have appeared in the Atlantic, Slate and many other outlets.
When Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) announced on February 16 that he would extend the moratorium on the death penalty…
The notion that public defenders, constitutionally-mandated criminal defense lawyers, are part of the “public safety” sector has seemed to spread…
Do Americans really love the drug war, mass incarceration, and the rest of our litany of criminal injustice? The 2022…
The so-called progressive prosecutor movement started around 2015. It was about getting candidates elected to implement local policies with profound…
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is probably getting impeached. At a time when US Senate candidates like Mehmet Oz in…
The District Attorney of El Paso County, Texas, Yvonne Rosales, is decidedly non-progressive. When running for the seat, Rosales stated,…
The successor to San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is making good on her promise to ramp up the drug…
On September 13, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a resolution holding Philadelphia’s district attorney, high-profile reformer Larry Krasner, in…
The politics of prosecutors in Massachusetts this year is a complicated mess, but one that overall bodes ill for reform…
The life-without-parole sentence is barbaric. Decarceration activists call it “death by incarceration.” Pope Francis denounced it as “a hidden death…