The prosecution recommended a six-year sentence, but Brock Turner, the star swimmer at Stanford University got just six months. The recent national discourse around this case seems to show we have come a long way in terms of openly recognizing and addressing the problem of campus sexual assault. But it’s cases like Turner’s that remind us just how much more needs be done.
It’s been an interesting end of June and early July for Democrats to say the least. The early debate gamble has definitively played out poorly for the Biden campaign, and the entirety of the messaging around the election is now focused squarely on Biden and his age. While it will likely take time before the focus shifts back to Trump (hopefully not too long), we thought it would be interesting to take a look at how the public’s opinion had changed after Trump’s conviction. Moving from the hypothetical to the actual news of the former President being found guilty on all 34 felony counts.
