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Mark Osler
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How Obama can use his clemency power to help reverse racism
Because race is a factor when blacks are disproportionately targeted by the criminal justice system, race should also matter in providing clemency relief today.
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Marijuana and iron bars
The emergence of 4/20 day is just one sign of our strikingly new mood regarding pot.
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The prison door creaks open
In one day, Obama commuted almost as many sentences as Reagan and George W. Bush did in 16 years.
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Only half-way there on mercy
The DOJ’s effort to commute more sentences for drug crimes doesn’t address the actual problem with federal clemency.
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Obama’s pardons: A good start, but not enough
While Obama’s clemency grants were important, principled, and well-chosen, they should be the start of his actions, not the end.
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Time to free those who’ve been jailed too long
I helped send people to prison for long sentences. It was unfair; I was wrong; and it’s time for them to be freed.
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Use the pardon power to realize Holder’s vision
Attorney General Eric Holder gave a remarkable speech this week explaining how narcotics policy and sentencing cut to the core of the most important criminal
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The speck in Florida’s eye, and the log in DOJ’s
It appears that the Obama administration’s Department of Justice has put a hold on the evidence used in the case against George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of
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The best reason to stop using drones
There are names and faces that should serve as stop signs to wrongheaded national policies.
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Sentence the Boston bomber to meaninglessness
Understandably, there are already calls for the execution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is now charged with the bombings of the Boston Marathon.