http://www.thedefendersonline.com A civil rights blog promoting informed discourse on issues of race, justice, equality and democracy. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:37:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/03/16/congress-appears-ready-to-revise-cocaine-sentencing-law-ldf-asserts-%e2%80%9ccompromise-means-continued-discrimination%e2%80%9d/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/03/16/congress-appears-ready-to-revise-cocaine-sentencing-law-ldf-asserts-%e2%80%9ccompromise-means-continued-discrimination%e2%80%9d/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:33:36 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=12691 The Editors For the first time in a quarter-century, Congress appears ready to substantially revise the federal drug laws which have mandated that far harsher punishment be meted out for the possession or sale of the crack form of cocaine than for the powdered form.]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/03/16/congress-appears-ready-to-revise-cocaine-sentencing-law-ldf-asserts-%e2%80%9ccompromise-means-continued-discrimination%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0