My advocacy is rooted in lived experience. Coming from a large extended family, I’ve seen firsthand how ordinary people are affected by the court system—through both my own cases and those of people close to me. Trying to make sense of those experiences led me to study the legal structures behind them and to understand how certain procedural weaknesses consistently harm vulnerable families.

Vermont’s judicial system, with its severely eroded safeguards, offered a useful lens for understanding national trends. While not unique in its challenges, its structure makes broader problems easier to identify and analyze. My mission is to highlight those issues, compare them to successful models elsewhere, and advocate for practical reforms that strengthen fairness, accountability, and due process for everyone..

Some of my key points of advocacy include;

1. The Free Market Solution to Social Justice
   This model transfers the risk of error in exercises of prosecutorial or coercive state power. This cost of error is a public cost that should be borne by the public, not by vulnerable communities.
   Immunity should be replaced with vicarious liability so anyone harmed by a wrongful use of government power can seek redress and if the government actors have immunity, liability transfer to their employer(state, local, or Federal government).

2. Judicial Accountability
   Current models of Judicial Conduct Board Review acts to shield the institution from scrutiny rather than shield the public from abuses of judicial power.
   An updated proposed model includes forms of evaluation that can deter the current abuses that go unrecognized in todays’s systems.
   Modern study can measure judicial bias, and indicates 1. It actually increases such that the judiciary is actually more biased than the general public due to the echo chamber effect of their decisions, and 2. Judges manipulate the facts of the case to shield their legal conclusions from scrutiny such that Judicial Preferences are measurably more useful in predicting outcomes than the facts.
   An updated model of accountability splits the balance between risk to the public and risk to the judicial officers and lands in a middle ground more similar to other fields. Preserving autonomy and discretion, but limiting and deterring abuses and violations

3. Judicial Access Fund
   The American Promise is Liberty and Justice for all. Not just for those who can afford to claim it. Yet, court access and success is driven highly by access to legal counsel.
   It is worse for children who cannot be represented by a parent who is not an attorney, so indigent children have no access to pursue their rights unless their parents can raise the money.
   There are many ways to approach this problem, however, the notion that some people may be fully excluded from access to court because they don’t have the means to buy in to the system is simply un-American.
   On the far other end of the spectrum, large corporations can violate the law, rack up millions in fees, and escape penalty by cutting a deal that effectively makes the violations cheaper than compliance.
   As Elizabeth Warren said we send the wrong message when stealing $100 on Main St means jail time, but stealing $100 million through financial violations might just get the CEO a big bonus for negotiating a settlement with the government.
   When some can’t afford to buy in, and other's can simply buy their way out, there is something deeply wrong with the system

Those are summaries of the key points in our current advocacy. Freedom and Justice should truly be for all. Not just for those who can afford to purchase them.