abolition

The son of immigrants himself, Ho has written eloquently in support of this principle, refuting conservative arguments for its abolition.

A blanket commutation would realize Mr. Biden’s anti-death-penalty stance and move the United States further along the path to abolition.

For them, the idea of liberty pointed to the tangible abolition of slavery and racial hierarchy; reform represented the persistent human action required to achieve liberty through moral, social and political processes; and progression suggests a practical commitment to the possibility of effecting positive political change and acknowledges the potential for future improvement to be contingent rather than inevitable.

And she described herself as an “abolitionist” — someone who favors the “abolition of police and the prison industrial complex.”

In both contests, police abolition — and law enforcement spending overall — has emerged as a political fault line, particularly for voters worried about crime and disorder.