Samantha Buckingham

Dir. Emeritus, Juv Justice Clinic at the Ctr for Juv Law and Policy. Prof. Loyola Law – LMU, LA. Former DC public defender @pdsdc. Board, @BreakFree_Ed.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following:

$510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research
$82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated)
$61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated)
$240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated)
$659 million - Community building grants
$47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated)
$449 million - Economic development grants for communities
$1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA)
$993 million - Scientific research and technology standards
$150 million - Support for American exports and trade
$2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs
$8.5 billion - Funding for public schools
$1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated)
$2.7 billion - College access and higher education support
$15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects
$1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.1 billion - Scientific research funding
$386 million - Environmental cleanup programs
$150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research
$4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated)
$768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance
$819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children
$775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated)
$5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention
$5 billion - Medical research (NIH)
$129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research
$356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response
$1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants
$707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure
$52 million - Airport and transportation security
$40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats
$53 million - Funding for homeland security operations
$3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated)
$1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated)
$393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness
$529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated)
$489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities
$50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated)
$60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws
$58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated)
$45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety
$20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated)
$395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated)
$234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs
$101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws
$46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad
$2 billion - International humanitarian aid
$1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated)
$4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs
$2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships
$642 million - International economic and treasury programs
$315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad
$486 million - Grants for public transit projects
$4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
$372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities
$145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure
$204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities
$1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement
$100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated)
$1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection
$2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds
$90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated)
$3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research
$297 million - NASA technology innovation programs
$1.1 billion - International Space Station operations
$143 million - STEM education programs
$309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs
$170 million - Small Business Administration operations
$158 million - Loans for small businesses

[Samantha Buckingham @SamBuck4JuvJust]

My jury stood up to Trump’s DOJ and acquitted me of assault on an FBI agent https://t.co/PkmuJxwiTi

[Samantha Buckingham @SamBuck4JuvJust]

https://t.co/vIN9GwxYqd

[Samantha Buckingham @SamBuck4JuvJust]

Urge President Biden to commute the federal death row and help end the #deathpenalty once and for all: https://t.co/OQT4229OMK

[Samantha Buckingham @SamBuck4JuvJust]

This thread says it all. Yes @larabazelon

[Lara Bazelon @larabazelon]

1/4: In 2019, I wrote a @nytimes op-ed critical of Kamala Harris on criminal justice issues. In the last week every media outlet you can think of has asked me to "comment" on her candidacy. Here you go: Dems--all of us--need to make sure that Kamala Harris wins the presidency.

[Gideon's Promise @Gideons_Promise]

💡Did you know that only a 7% proportion of all federal judges were former public defenders?

Read more: https://t.co/W0RXMumkxV

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

Poverty is strongly correlated with multiple arrests.

Nearly half of people with multiple arrests have individual incomes below $10,000 per year.

It’s time to support our communities instead of locking them up.

https://t.co/OVeQvpdv8c

[Samantha Buckingham @SamBuck4JuvJust]

Here’s what would be happening to Donald Trump right now if he were poor https://t.co/9hFaFNnse7 via @sfchronicle

[Samantha Buckingham @SamBuck4JuvJust]

@JillCollen @ProfRonSullivan Amazing work!! I’m going to assign this article to my students ! Your tenacity inspires!

[Ronald S. Sullivan @ProfRonSullivan]

A must read: My former student and current super-lawyer is making justice happen in rural Mississippi! How the Justice Dept. came to investigate policing in Lexington, Miss. - The Washington Post ⁦@JillCollen⁩ https://t.co/O4spJAWYIP

[Samantha Buckingham @SamBuck4JuvJust]

@ProfRonSullivan @tsully1712 Way to go Trey! I remember when he was just a baby!

[Andrew G. Ferguson @ProfFerguson]

“An Impossible Choice”: Virginians Asked to Waive 4th Amendment Rights to Get a Plea Deal https://t.co/J57v1KLSdN

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

Wow. Fiona Apple is a real one. Watch this video. Calling for donations to bail out Black mothers for Mother’s Day. Her fans already came through w donations & spreading the word. Over $30k! Let’s “fetch the bolt cutters” & support even more. I just gave. https://t.co/uGGYWfaNrO

[Samantha Buckingham @SamBuck4JuvJust]

@vidabjohnson It couldn’t truly be a clinic though - more of a practicum with an externship-like component …?

[Jennifer Soble @jsoble1]

Daily reminder that around 20% of the nearly 30k people in Illinois’ prisons are elderly.

We have no mechanism for mid-sentence review, so people are held in prison years and years longer than necessary for public safety. 🫠

[Orin Kerr @OrinKerr]

Notable. https://t.co/DOq8y0XYz8

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

Easter messages from the two major presidential candidates.

[Vida B. Johnson @vidabjohnson]

If a regular person posted a picture of a judge’s kid, Marshals would be at his home so fast. That a former president with millions of followers could get away w it is …?

Trump must 'immediately desist' from targeting judge's daughter, prosecutors say - https://t.co/9twtCt8eRD

[Samantha Buckingham @SamBuck4JuvJust]

@vidabjohnson !!

[christina 💎 @xtinajodie]

Such an honor & a pleasure ✨🙏🏾🫶🏾 @thesherylralph 🤍