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Of Gingrich, Don King, and the meaning of MLK Day.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Demonstrators for Guantanamo's immediate closure, near the Nipponzan Myohoji temple in D.C. welcome Obama's approaching southbound motorcade on January 19. (Photo courtesy of Nancy Mancias, one of the members of the Hundred Days campaign to close Guantanamo now.) Tomorrow will be the sixth presidential inauguration since I landed in Washington, D.C., for law school in 1986. I stayed away from Bush I and II's inaugurations, vehemently opposed to both. I worked through Clinton's two inaugurations rather than attending, non-plussed that much by the man, except for being happy for seeing Bush I gone.  I do not hold open the likelihood that Obama will deliver better performance than Bill Clinton, at least not for criminal defendants. I foresee him perpetuating the draconian federal prosecutorial system that puts so many unjustly behind bars for too long, where the criminal justice system would be more fair, more accurate and much less expensive if marijuana were legalized, all other drugs were heavily decriminalized, and if mandatory minimum sentences were eliminated...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on January 20, 2009 (boomark / email).