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Elizabeth Owens protests on the steps of New York City Hall in support of the Fairness and Equity Act on July 9, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty)

How Obama can use his clemency power to help reverse racism

Marijuana and iron bars

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC. on March 25, 2015.

The prison door creaks open

Inmates in the exercise yard at San Quentin state prison, June 8, 2012, in San Quentin, Calif.

Only half-way there on mercy

US President Barack Obama speaks during a taping of TNT's Christmas in Washington, Dec. 15, 2013.

Obama’s pardons: A good start, but not enough

Inmates make phone calls from their cell at the Orange County jail in Santa Ana, California, May 24, 2011.

Time to free those who’ve been jailed too long

United States Attorney Gen. Eric Holder speaks to the American Bar Association Annual Meeting Monday, Aug. 12, 2013, in San Francisco. (Eric Risberg/AP)

Use the pardon power to realize Holder’s vision

Prison Bars. (Stock photo by GeoStock/Photodisc/Getty Images)

The speck in Florida’s eye, and the log in DOJ’s

File Photo: The US military in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, a Taliban stronghold, are using high-tech Predator drones against their enemy. They have approximately 8 there. The Predator has no pilot, and is controlled for his highly secret mission...

The best reason to stop using drones

Tamerlan Tsarnaev (L), 26, is pictured in 2010 in Lowell, Massachusetts, and his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is pictured in an undated FBI handout photo in this combination photo. The two are suspects in the April 15, 2013 bombing at the Boston...

Sentence the Boston bomber to meaninglessness