As President, Johnson worked across partisan lines on criminal justice reform including sentencing, probation and parole, and banning the box in state employment. At the same time, he sparred with Republican Nathan Deal over a lack of diversity in judicial picks for Georgia's courts and the State's failure to expand medicaid. He was leading critic of Georgia's failed charter school amendment to the State Constitution that many believed would have turned public schools over to for-profit corporations. He co-convened Georgia's Moral Monday Movement, a group launched after William Barber's state-based movement in North Carolina, with Tim Franzen, American Friends Service Committee, State Senator Vincent Fort and Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock, Senior Pastor of Ebeneezer Baptist Church. The group launched teach-ins, public demonstrations and led more than 72 clergy and other citizens in acts of civil disobedience to dramatize a swath of what many believed was a right-winged ALEC inspired agenda that included the state's failure to expand medicaid, draconian drug laws, discriminatory stances toward the GBLTQ community and "Stand Your Ground" legislation.