The Biden administration on Tuesday rolled out a series of presidential actions on racial justice, including multiple actions that re-established policies of the Obama administration that were subsequently done away with by President Donald Trump.
This is great news. After four long years it’s like dialling back to go forward.
I’m hoping for clear and decisive action on banning all forms of torture, commuting and rescinding the death penalty and finally joining the IC. It’s time to catch up to the rest of your main allies.
Feels like a breath of fresh air. But what would feel even better would be if these policies were in enacted laws and not simply by executive order, so that they don’t disappear and reappear as new administrations start and end.
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Antony J. Blinken as the nation’s 71st secretary of state, installing President Biden’s longtime adviser who has a mission to rejoin alliances that were fractured after four years of an “America First” foreign policy.
Mr. Blinken, 58, has already signaled he is prepared to roll back a number of State Department policies that were set under President Donald J. Trump. A centrist with an interventionist streak, he was approved by a vote of 78 to 22 after receiving mostly gentle prodding at his nomination hearing last week by senators who seemed eager to move past Mr. Trump’s confrontational approach to diplomacy.