Political Contributions and the Reform of the Criminal Justice System
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 2nd, 2009 5:33 am by HL
Political Contributions and the Reform of the Criminal Justice System
It’s been a great week at TPM. My final post will focus on a few more issues for President Obama and attorney general-designate Eric Holder, as well as some closing words on my 1960s experience in the context of…
Holder’s Challenges: Restoring Law to Government, Eliminating Politicization in Justice
When Bobby Kennedy became Attorney General he inherited a sound department with an apolitical law enforcement tradition. His relationship with the president gave the department additional prestige and influence when it came to law. His only management problem was…
Obama: “cannot have a strong middle class without a strong labor union”
That was Obama statement repealing a number of Bush-era anti-union executive orders and creating a White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families, chaired by VP Joe Biden and no doubt staffed by former-TPMCafer Jared Bernstein. I’ll skip the…
