And she embraced the movement to “ban the box”, or prevent the federal government and contractors from asking about criminal history during initial job applications. The change would give job seekers a chance to first prove their qualifications.
Advertisement
As the Democratic front-runner went on to talk about her support of the African American community and the civil rights movement, the Black Lives Matter activists sang over her speech. In 2010, President Barack Obama signed a law reducing the sentencing-length disparity for crack versus powder cocaine offenses to a ratio of 18-1 from 100-1, treating 18 grams of powder cocaine as the equivalent of one gram of crack cocaine.
Ryan James, a lawyer representing Vice News in the Clinton email lawsuit before Judge Sullivan, said he planned to challenge every “withholding or redaction” that does not meet the standards of freedom of information laws.
The two talked about campaign finance reform, as well as his proposal for free college tuition. The odds of that are probably pretty low, but the fact that they’re locking the e-mails down makes it impossible to rule out, too.
Black Americans make up 80 percent of crack cocaine users, where powder cocaine users are typically white.
In April 2011, daughter Chelsea Clinton, using the email alias Diane Reynolds, emailed her mother a link from a Wall Street Journal story headlined “The Sleepless Elite: Why a few People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done”.
A senior unidentified White House official said Friday that releasing the communications at this time would violate the long tradition of records remaining confidential while a president is in office.
The US State Department has released 7,000 more pages of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s e-mails, the largest batch to date from a private server she used for official business during her 2009-2013 tenure as secretary of state. The White House is of the opinion that eventually under the federal record laws these emails would have to become public, but to release them now when the Obama is still in office is not legal.
The response to Affleck was censored in the email released Friday by the State Department, because it was a draft version.
Clinton has still not released her criminal justice platform.
Hillary Clinton appears to have overcome an investigation of her role in the 2012 deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, but she still faces a months-long FBI inquiry into the handling of sensitive information while she was secretary of state.
She thanked Mayor Riley for his leadership throughout the healing process and for the last 40 years as mayor of the Holy City.
Advertisement
Patrisse Cullors, an activist and co-founder of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag, said that while Clinton’s position on mass incarceration in black communities was “important and necessary, I’d like to hear her speak about the issues affecting all Black people not just a focus on Black men”.
