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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Criminal Justice Reform

 Radley Balko is one of the best, most measured and seasoned writers on criminal justice reform and his critique here is worth reading. I didn't even know this law existed, but hearing it described...yikes. I do wonder if perhaps there aren't ten Republican Senators who could be convinced to vote for cloture on this, because of its flagrant abuse of habeus corpus, but then I remember that Republicans are primarily interested in punishment, not justice.

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