Rand Paul May Have Plagiarized in Drug Sentencing Op-Ed
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was busted in what may have been another incident of plagiarism on Monday.
As first reported by BuzzFeed, there are unmistakable similarities between an opinion piece Paul wrote for The Washington Times on drug sentencing in September, and an article written by Dan Stewart of The Week a week earlier.
BuzzFeed highlighted two excerpts from Stewart’s piece — an introduction to mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses and the story of a man affected by them — from which Paul appears to have borrowed heavily.
Stewart wrote this in the introduction of his piece:
At least 20 states, both red and blue, have reformed their mandatory sentencing laws in some way, and Congress is considering a bipartisan bill that would do the same for federal crimes.
Paul’s op-ed included the same sentence — with the addition of a hyphen:
At least 20 states, both red and blue, have reformed their mandatory-sentencing laws in some way, and Congress is considering a bipartisan bill that would do the same for federal crimes.
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