Obama's Paltry Pardon Record Contradicts Eric Holder's Concern Over Drug War Incarceration

Attorney General Eric Holder's remarks about criminal justice to an American Bar Association gathering this week were in many ways groundbreaking. After nearly 35 years of "lock 'em up" rhetoric from public officials, a sitting United States attorney general has finally conceded that the policies resulting from that rhetoric may have gone too far.

Holder declared that the criminal justice system is "in too many respects broken." He added that "too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason."...