New at Reason: Radley Balko on the Lack of Crime Discussion at the Sotomayor Hearings

July 20, 2009

Last week's confirmation hearings for Obama Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor featured discussion of gun control, affirmative action, abortion, and gay marriage, as well as many an utterance of the phrase "wise Latina." One thing that wasn't much discussed, however, was criminal justice, at least beyond a few Democrats boasting of Sotomayor's record of ruling against criminal defendants.

Reason Senior Editor Radley Balko explains that that's because as far as most national politicians of either party are concerned, there's really only one acceptable position on crime: We need to get tougher on it.

Read all about it here.