Jacob Sullum on the Brightest Spot in Eric Holder’s Record

Attorney
General Eric Holder, who last week said he plans to step down as
soon as Congress approves his replacement, sees criminal justice
reform as the “signature achievement” of his five and half years in
office. Jacob Sullum says Holder is probably right about that,
especially since his record on civil liberties and executive power
is almost uniformly awful. Despite a late start, Sullum writes,
Holder has done more to highlight the harm inflicted by our
excessively punitive criminal justice system than any of his
predecessors.

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