In an important victory for justice, President Obama today signed the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, putting an end to the 100-to-1 disparity between punishments for crack cocaine and powder cocaine.
The passage of the bill was a pivotal point in the fight to correct imbalances in our sentencing laws. The bill repeals a mandatory minimum sentence for the first time since mandatory minimums were introduced in the Nixon administration. It is important to note that this law had the support of Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle who joined forces in a remarkable display of non-partisan solidarity.