According to a Harvard/Harris poll released yesterday, Joe Biden is the initial frontrunner for the 2020 presidential nomination among the 36 potential Democratic presidential candidates. The former vice president leads the pack with 25 percent of respondents supporting his bid (the number increases to 28 percent if Hillary Clinton is not included among the options of candidates to support), followed …
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George H.W. Bush: The Last Gentleman in Washington
When I was in kindergarten, my class took a field trip to a classmate’s home to watch the inauguration of George H.W. Bush. My classmates and I, all of 5-years-old, could not comprehend why we were being told to focus on the boring proceedings on television, especially when a room filled with toys was a few feet away. Soon, we …
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Trump’s backing of the First Step Act is a win for criminal justice reform
Earlier this month, President Trump announced his support of the First Step Act, a major bipartisan criminal justice reform bill in Congress. The bill, which provides federal judges more discretion by removing the constraints imposed by mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines and has multiple measures designed to reduce the rate of recidivism, overwhelmingly passed the in House in May, but has …