It is being blind to history not to recognize that the criminal justice system has been trained on the African-American community to try to control it, contain it, to break its spirit.

The Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 2005 may be something, but it is not law within the meaning of the Constitution.

Most ordinary politicians run quickly away from it.

The senators who want to serve on (the Judiciary Committee) tend to be very ideologically driven and know their own minds. They are either very strong progressives or very deep conservatives.

There's a kind of robotic logic at work in his memorandum that runs roughshod over important distinctions between nonviolent and violent felons.

This is about history, it is about how our justice system responded to the worst terrorist attack on our soil.