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The Marshall Project Closing Argument.

This weeks art by C-Note.

All politics, the saying goes, is local. But as far as criminal justice policy goes, well — it depends. In a number of localities over the past month, state and federal officials have channeled anxiety about crime into efforts to bypass local governance. This trend is clearest in Washington, D.C., where on Wednesday the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a ...