Violent crime in America, despite experiencing an overall dramatic decline since the 1990s, has started to surge back over the past few years. Amidst this distressing social trend, alas, America’s erstwhile “law-and-order”/tough-on-crime political party has been ideologically and financially captured by pro-criminal libertarians who ally with the Left to spout hackneyed, outmoded orthodoxies like the alleged (non-)issue of “mass incarceration.” The most tangible result of this unholy alliance was the bipartisan 2018 passage of the harrowing First Step Act jailbreak law — a law enactment which President Donald Trump, viewing the murderous early results, apparently already regrets.
Alas, the leftist/libertarian alliance on “criminal justice” issues, just highlighted during last night’s Democratic Party presidential primary debate when Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) touted her work with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on the crime-abetting issue of “bail reform,”continues unabated. Which brings us to prominent libertarian lawyer/legal commentator Clark Neily, who has been on a roll, of late. Neily, who spent years with the rabidly pro-judicial power libertarian legal group Institute for Justice, now works for the equally pro-judicial power libertarian Cato Institute. Neily’s title at Cato is “Vice President for Criminal Justice” and, based on his recent musings, he appears to embody the zealous leftist/libertarian jailbreak alliance.
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