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He is the Democratic Party nominee for New York County District Attorney,
serving the borough of Manhattan, in the 2021 election. Bragg's top challenger,
Tali Farhadian Weinstein, conceded the race on July 2, 2021,
handing the nomination to Bragg.
Alvin Leonard Bragg Jr. (born 1974 or 1975) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of New York who previously served as Chief Deputy Attorney General in New York State Office of Attorney General.
According to several news organizations, Manhattan is so heavily Democratic that Bragg is overwhelmingly favored to succeed Cyrus Vance Jr. in the general election and become the first person of color to serve as New York County District Attorney
The position has been held by just people, Mr. Vance and Robert Morgenthau—for the past 45 years.
Bragg is from the Upper Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem, where he grew up on Striver's Row.[4] He graduated from the Trinity School,[5] before he attended Harvard College. He graduated from Harvard *** laude with a Bachelor of Arts in government in 1995,[4][6] and earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.
Bragg clerked for Robert P. Patterson Jr. before he joined the law firm Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello as an associate. His work there focused on white collar fraud and civil rights issues. In 2003, he joined the office of the attorney general of New York under Eliot Spitzer, before becoming the chief of litigation and investigations for the New York City Council. In 2009, Bragg left the city council to serve as assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York.[7]
In 2017, Eric Schneiderman, then serving as attorney general, appointed Bragg to be chief deputy attorney general of New York.[8] He ran the criminal justice and social justice divisions, and oversaw lawsuits brought by the state against the Donald J. Trump Foundation, Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company, and the addition of a citizenship question on the 2020 United States Census. He left the role in December 2018.[9] He became a professor at the New York Law School, where he became co-director of the Racial Justice Project.[7] Bragg is a member of the board of directors for the Legal Aid Society. He has represented the families of Ramarley Graham and Eric Garner in civil litigation against New York City.
His ideas are right on that website you posted. There's no need for me to rehash them. In fact his opening statement alone is cause for worry. NYC needs a criminal prosecutor, not a "progressive leader... on criminal justice reform."
It's not my role to hope someone goes against their own word.
His ideas are right on that website you posted. There's no need for me to rehash them. It's not my role to hope someone goes against their own word.
Well you said "Adams won't be cleaning up a single corner with this guy as DA" but have no examples.
Some things on the website you don't agree with but there are probably parts you do agree with.
I'm not talking about the political rhetoric on site, the actual policy proposals
Maybe somebody else will take this up, we have to start somewhere to discuss the policies
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