Kim Kardashian Visits The White House To Advocate For Criminal Justice Reform

Kim Kardashian is reportedly taking a break from her legal studies, however she hasn’t given up on her advocacy efforts for felony justice reform.

Final week, the truth TV star turned serial entrepreneur joined Vice President Kamala Harris on the White Home for a roundtable dialogue highlighting President Joe Biden’s clemency efforts for these convicted of non-violent drug offenses. The Associated Press has extra particulars:

Those that sat down alongside Harris, Kardashian and Steve Benjamin, the director of the White Home Workplace of Public Engagement, included Jason Hernandez, Bobby Lowery, Jesse Mosley and Beverly Robinson, who all acquired presidential pardons [last] week. They spoke of profitable careers — reminiscent of working nonprofits and training actual property — and the way they had been overcome with emotion when discovering out about their pardons….

Harris, who previously served as California’s legal professional basic, spoke of her perception within the “energy of redemption,” saying, “[I]s it not the signal of a civil society that we permit folks a strategy to earn their method again, and provides them the help and assets they want to do this?”

Kardashian, who efficiently lobbied for the clemency of girls offenders in the course of the Trump administration, advised the group she was, “tremendous honored” to listen to their tales, and that she thought it was “so necessary to amplify them.”

Kardashian memorialized the day in a put up on Instagram, saying that whereas there was “[m]uch extra to do,” she’s “grateful for progress”:

We’ve got a sense that if Kardashian is taking outing of her busy schedule for alternatives like this, that she could also be again on observe together with her authorized research (the truth is, she even took a photograph of herself with Jessica Jackson and Erin Haney, the attorneys she’s been working with for her apprenticeship). Better of luck to her as she advocates for felony justice reform, and in her quest to take the bar examination and develop into a lawyer.

First with Trump, now with Kamala Harris: Kim Kardashian is advocating for criminal justice reform [Associated Press]

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