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Senator Rand Paul says AUMF Will Further Endless War
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Beer Bastards - Episode 7 - Austin Petersen, Rand Paul, Voting, and Elections
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Rand Paul: US Dangerously Close To Insolvency - 2/13/2013
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BOWIE, Md. -- Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) renewed his call for criminal justice reform in a wide-ranging speech Friday at Bowie State University, a historically black college in Maryland. Addressing students, local leaders, and activists as part of his minority outreach effort, Paul stressed the need to roll back civil asset forfeiture and mandatory minimum sentencing laws ahead of a likely bid for president in 2016.
"If were for families with a mother and father around, we need to be for fixing the criminal justice system," he said, framing reform as an economic issue of interest to all Republicans.
"Criminal justice, or the lack of criminal justice, its not a black or white problem," he added, "It's a poverty problem."
The libertarian-leaning conservative spoke for about 30 minutes, referencing black leaders he agreed with on matters of criminal justice reform, such as President Barack Obama, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Martin Luther King, Jr., and telling stories about African-Americans who were unfairly criminalized due to harsh sentencing laws.
"There's a racial outcome to this. I don't think there's a racial intention," he said. "But I tell people that I think they're not looking if they don't think that the incarceration problem in our country is not skewed towards one race. I don't think it's purposeful but I do think it is actual and it is real and we should do something about it.
Paul also spoke out against civil asset forfeitures, and called for restoring voting rights to nonviolent ex-felons.
"If you smoked some pot or grew marijuana plants in college, I think you ought to get a second chance," he said.
Paul teamed up with Booker last year to introduce legislation aimed at breaking the cycle of incarceration for nonviolent offenders. The REDEEM Act would have automatically expunged or sealed records for juveniles who commit nonviolent crimes. Several of his supporters collected signatures on Friday for a petition backing the bill, which Paul and Booker reintroduced this week.
The senator also issued a warning about National Security Agency surveillance programs, reminding an audience composed of about as many African Americans as whites to "think about how Martin Luther King's phone was tapped."
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