Gene Healy Says Obama Is Right on Clemency for Non-Violent Drug Offenders

Last week, leading
conservatives raised the alarm about yet another terrifying
instance of “presidential lawlessness” from President Obama.
What is it this time? New revelations of dragnet spying? Targeting
more American citizens with flying robot assassins? Nope: He’s
going to let more nonviolent drug offenders out of prison. Some
conservatives are caterwauling, but Gene Healy says that after more
than a trillion dollars and incalculable human costs, and a
four-decade war on drugs has helped give us an incarceration rate
that’s unrivaled—and unenvied—in the Western world, the president’s
decision is the right one.

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