Wednesday, July 14, 2021
In Today's NY Times
Rachel Barkow and I have an Op-Ed (er, I guess they call them "Guest Essays" now) in today's New York Times. You can read it here.
All the way back to the primaries, we feared that now-President Biden would win and then replicate Obama's first-term timidity on clemency... and so far, that is what is happening. There is a backlog of over 15,000 petitions, and another issue as well-- 4,500 people who have been released on home confinement and who have done well, proving that their sentences can be safely commuted.
This is my third Op-Ed in the Times. If you are interested, here is the first, from 2014, and here is the second, from 2016.
