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Vice President, Institute for Constitutional Government Then-U.S. President Donald Trump signs the First Step Act and the Juvenile Justice Reform Act in the Oval Office of the White House December 21, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Win McNamee / Getty Images
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Among the orders worth retaining that Biden axed Executive Order 13980.
Biden who campaigned as a criminal justice reformer just ended this long-overdue criminal justice reform that Trump delivered.
By rescinding Trump’s order, Biden paves the way for more morally innocent, unsuspecting Americans to be caught up in the criminal justice system.
President Joe Biden has been moving at breakneck speed to undo every policy of his predecessor that he can, but he seems not to be giving any thought to whether the underlying policy is good.
John G. Malcolm is the vice president of the Institute for Constitutional Government and director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, overseeing The Heritage Foundation’s work to increase understanding of the Constitution and the rule of law. Read his research.
President Joe Biden has been moving at breakneck speed to undo every policy of his predecessor that he can, but he seems not to be giving any thought to whether the underlying policy is good.
If former President Donald Trump made it, Biden will unmake it even if he later has to remake it, as in the case of recently resumed border wall construction.
Online, mug shots are forever. Some states want to change that By Lindsey Van Ness, Stateline.org
Published: May 16, 2021, 2:45pm
Share: The wall of shame. Lawmakers across the U.S. are moving to stop police from releasing booking photos unless the arrestee failed to appear for court, was a fugitive or was convicted. (Dreamstime/TNS)
After a weekend in the Burleigh County, North Dakota, detention center last summer, Dustin Gawrylow was relieved when the state’s attorney decided not to press charges against him.
Gawrylow, 38, had been in a fistfight with his brother a “brotherly scuffle,” he called it and was surprised to be arrested after going to the police to explain what happened.
After a weekend in the Burleigh County, N.D., detention center last summer, Dustin Gawrylow was relieved when the stateâs attorney decided not to press charges against him.
Gawrylow, 38, had been in a fistfight with his brother â a âbrotherly scuffle,â he called it â and was surprised to be arrested after going to the police to explain what happened.
But even though his charges didnât stick around, his booking photo did.
âIn the meantime, my mug shot got out, and it circulated widely in political circles,â said Gawrylow, who in 2012 started the North Dakota Watchdog Network, a libertarian-leaning group that advocates for lower taxes and less government spending.