Legal and Voting Rights reform rolled into one

I bet Republicans love this.

Barr is going to protect Trump & Trump's worst policies

A big tell, because there is not now, nor has there ever been, any inkling of the government attempting to "suppress the freedoms of traditional religious communities."  There's zero reason to be concerned.  This is fearmongering for Christians.








Are you aware that you have just contradicted your own assessment?

UPDATE:

Republican senators threw softballs. Democratic senators went head-hunting, and Barr sought refuge in that unique form of Beltway weaselspeak that sounds important but is only portentous—Polonius with an honorarium and a fellowship at Heritage. There is no doubt in my mind that Barr was chosen by this administration* to protect this administration*, and that any pretense to the contrary was vain and foolish. Yet, everyone had to go through the motions anyway, so there we are.

If there was an intriguing strand to the questioning, it came on those occasions when Barr was questioned not about our current political dilemmas but, rather, on his work in the Department of Justice back in the 1980s and 1990s. Barr was George H. W. Bush's last Attorney General. It was the superheated beginning of the "war" on drugs, and Barr was central to creating that administration's draconian policies for drug enforcement and incarceration. Those policies now are the exact policies that the new push for criminal-justice reform is trying to, well, reform. (After leaving the White House the first time, Barr took a job with then-Virginia Governor George Allen in the latter's attempt to abolish parole in that state.)

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Later, Barr said that he believed the "overall system" was working and that black and white defendants were treated equally within it and, demonstrating the kind of discipline we like to see in our public servants, nobody fell off their chairs or threw food.

  Charles P Pierce

Larry Krasner and Philadelphia's criminal justice reform

Across the country, talking the talk of criminal justice reform has gotten many people elected as DA. Once in office, their reforms have often been painfully slow and disappointing. Krasner was the first candidate elected who publicly committed not just to intermittent changes, but a radical overhaul.

So far, having been office less than three months, he has exceeded expectations.

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It’s a dream come true for those of us who’ve been fighting our hearts out for justice reform for years.

  The Intercept

Good luck to Larry Krasner for continued forward motion, and remaining alive.

This is going to be a very interesting case study.

Continue reading.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.