In the News: A Links Round-up

• Bush pardons carjackers, drug dealers, a moonshiner and a violator of election laws, but not I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. [HuffPo: No Holiday Pardon for Libby]

• Crackheads rejoice as the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted to allow about 19,500 inmates to seek reductions in their crack cocaine prison sentences. [Kansas City Star: Federal commission lets inmates seek shorter sentences for crack cocaine convictions]

• The ABA Journal -- a magazine published by the American Bar Association -- names Alberto Gonzales Lawyer of the Year. [Newsvine: Gonzales Named Lawyer of the Year]

• The U.S. is still threatened by terrorists from abroad and within despite steps taken to tighten the way people and goods enter the country. [WSJ.com: Chertoff Says Terror Threat Hasn't Abated Despite Rules]

• "In the past three years, Department of Energy nuclear swat teams have safely locked up enough material to make 34 nuclear bombs." [CBS News: Agents Locking Down Loose Nuke Material]

• New Jersey may soon ban the death penalty. [ABC News: N.J. Senate Moves to Ban Death Penalty]

-Dippold

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