Biden endorses bill to end sentencing disparity for crack and powder cocaine

> Good, but he doesn't deserve much credit for finally trying to fix a problem he created 40 years ago.

Sure, and if it passes the rest of the country doesn't get much credit for finally catching up to him in trying to fix it (he sponsored a bill to fix it in 2007, while he waa still in the Senate.)

But its still the right thing to do, whether or not wrong things were done in the past.

I think he deserves a lot of credit for actually evolving his views over a half-century and doing his best to balance political realities with the democratic agenda.

Federalism was one of many victims in the War on Drugs.

> Why is this a federal issue at all?

Because of federal drug laws.

> Isn't criminal prosecution supposed to be a state issue.

No; the reason the Bill of Rights has procedural controls on federal criminal prosecutions (which were later applied to state prosecutions by way of the 14th Amendment and incorporation doctrine) is because criminal prosecution was always one of the tools designed to be used by the federal government in executing authority within its assigned domains of responsibility, which always included (among others) regulating trade among the states and between the US and foreign nations.