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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, panelists delve into policing and violence in the wake of the video release showing Memphis police killing Tyre Nichols.

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law Though 2020 has been a rough year, I still feel fortunate that the last big in-person event I attended was this amazing conference, "The Controlled Substances Act at 50 Years," which was hosted in February 2020 by the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and put together by the amazing team at The Ohio State University's Drug Enforcement and Policy Center and ASU's Academy for Justice.  This terrific conference is on my mind now because the terrific Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law has recently published its Fall 2020 issue whi...

Don't know what they want and they don't know the way out. that's why this is scary. that's why we need senate republicans to really be part of the solution and pass those house bills. >> they should get together. thank you very much. joining me senior scholar at american enterprise and democratic strategist. i want to start with you, norm, because you have written for a very long time about congress, congressional dysfunction, particularly republican parties. this strikes me as sort of a new frontier, although a continuation of some other trends. what do you think? >> it's a new low, but it i...

A long time, you know, because president trump said he was proud to be shutting down the president. pointing fingers now. this is now very intentional, even as you indicate they really don't know what they want and they don't know the way out. that's why this is scary. that's why we need senate republicans to really be part of the solution and pass those house bills. >> they should get together. thank you very much. joining me senior scholar at american enterprise and democratic strategist. i want to start with you, norm, because you have written for a very long time about congress, congressio...

Has had this. there is no reason why president obama shouldn't have it either because trade is good for our country. but she can't sit on the sidelines and let the president swing in the wind here. >> so you think she needs to be more engaged? >> i do. >> congressional dysfunction. the idea washington doesn't work. do you think there are too many special interests here in washington? too many lobbyists? >> everybody has special interests. when i get home everybody has their own interest. >> the organized special interests can kill things like that. import, export. look at the way the health ca...