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Josh Hawley's Attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson Illustrates the Emotionalism She Criticized: The Senator Argues That Questioning Sex Offender Policies 'Endangers Our Children' Mar. 23, 2022
In a 1996 Harvard Law Review article, Ketanji Brown Jackson, then a law school student, noted the "c... Read More
Second-Look Sentencing Jul. 14, 2018
Do you believe in second chances? To be more specific, do you believe in second chances for convicte... Read More
Obama's Underused Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card Apr. 05, 2016
"Did 'Hope and Change' really mean: 'Arguably, better than the very worst?'" political science profe... Read More
Like Armed Militia, the Law Is an Ass Jan. 07, 2016
Weeks before Ammon Bundy and his pals showed up at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to protest f... Read More
Obama Throws Open 46 Cell Doors at Last Jul. 14, 2015
President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 46 federal drug offenders Monday. In his first term... Read More
Clinton Changes on Crime May. 03, 2015
"It's time to end the era of mass incarceration," Hillary Clinton proclaimed in a scheduled criminal... Read More
Journalism On Trial in Egypt Jun. 26, 2014
Three journalists for the news channel Al-Jazeera, including one Australian national, were given pri... Read More
Overdue Mercy for Low-Level Drug Offenders Apr. 22, 2014
When Barack Obama ran for the White House in 2008, federal inmates and their families believed that ... Read More
Would You Trust the System if Your Kid Were On Trial? Jan. 19, 2014
Clarence Aaron described his time in federal prison serving life without parole for a first-time non... Read More
No Mercy From Obama This Thanksgiving Dec. 03, 2013
Another Thanksgiving has passed without a presidential commutation for Clarence Aaron, who, at age 2... Read More
