K Street Files: Big Reagan Admirers Fight Laws He Signed

• By Matthew Murray and Anna Palmer
• Roll Call Staff
• June 21, 2010, Midnight

A group of prominent conservatives is promoting a proposal that would throw out Reagan-era drug sentencing laws that detractors claim are racist. Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene and former Rep. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.) recently asked House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) to sign on to a bill, the Fair Sentencing Act, which would “reduce the unjustified disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentences.”