Clinton to pitch sentencing, police changes to black voters

A new batch of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails released Friday presented a glimpse into the breadth of her personal network – a Rolodex of powerful celebrities, CEOs, political advisers and politicians that she’s now tapping for her presidential campaign.

In addition to calling for legislation that would ban racial profiling by federal, state and local law enforcement, Clinton also backed a plan to eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.

Clinton’s actions as Secretary of State were admirable, including being a force for LGBT rights, but recently exposed e-mails again display her reflexive willingness to forsake the dignity of same-sex spouses in order to avoid “a huge Fox-generated media storm”. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has taken the server Clinton used while secretary of state, along with other computer hardware belonging to her, to examine whether sensitive government information was mishandled, which can be a crime in a few circumstances, or exposed.

Speaking from inside a packed gymnasium at Clark Atlanta University, an historically black university, Clinton initially acknowledged the group of less than a dozen protesters and responded by asserting: “Yes, black lives do matter”.

The incident occurred during a swing through Georgia and South Carolina as Clinton works to solidify her advantage in the African-American community, which could give her a crucial edge over Vermont Sen.

The answers, she said, include overhauling the US criminal justice system, tightening gun regulations and expanding economic and educational opportunities in communities held back by generations of institutionalized racism. Clinton largely backed incarceration policies signed by her husband in the 1990s. Rep. John Lewis, a hero in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, urged them to stop, as did the musician Usher.

“We must recognize that blacks are four times more likely than whites to get arrested for marijuana possession, even though the same proportion of blacks and whites use marijuana”, Sanders said in a statement. Clinton hasn’t detailed how her idea would go beyond existing law, but her campaign cited previous congressional proposals that would make it easier for alleged profiling victims to recover damages from government agencies in civil court.

“Yes they do and I’m gonna talk a lot about that in a minute”, she said. Other presidents, they note, also have kept such communications confidential until years after leaving office. The box being the one a job applicant must check saying they have a criminal history, during the initial application stage.

“I believe in second chances”, Clinton said in South Carolina.

And in an economic argument aimed both at partisans and independents, she alluded to economic growth and reductions in unemployment and the deficit during the terms of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and President Barack Obama.

The White House acknowledgment came as the State Department released another 7,000 pages Friday of messages that Clinton sent or received while serving as the nation’s top diplomat.

Katy Perry is among the celebs who support Hillary Clinton.

“Here’s my question: on this new berry can I get smiley faces?” Sanders endorsed both of Jackson’s presidential bids in 1984 and 1988. But it was Clinton who attended the public funeral for the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the state senator and Emanuel pastor.