On the Supreme Court docket: Fairness, textualism, and crack cocaine
Posted on AllSides May 3rd, 2021
From The Center
The sentencing rule treating crack cocaine as 100 times worse than powder is seen by bipartisan critics as a punitive remnant of the war on drugs. The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a case that could deliver a telling blow – or a telling victory – for reform.
It was 2008, and coming off his second run-in with the law, Tarahrick Terry wanted to make some money.
A week shy of his 21st birthday, he had four grams of crack cocaine in his pocket – something of an early...
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