Sen. Ted Cruz was once a leading Republican advocate of sentencing reform. But as Senior Editor Jacob Sullum observes, presidential candidate Cruz seems to have abandoned the cause and turned his back on drug war prisoners:
Unlike every other major-party candidate, Cruz joined [Rand] Paul in opposing the Renewable Fuel Standard on free-market grounds, a principled stand that could have cost both men votes in Iowa, where that mandate benefits corn farmers and ethanol producers. It’s too bad that Cruz, who describes his supporters as “courageous conservatives,” did not have the guts to join Paul in advocating a more enlightened approach to criminal justice.
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