Fresh Plagiarism Charges Raised Against Rand Paul [View all]

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

CATHERINE THOMPSON – NOVEMBER 5, 2013, 6:59 AM EST

Add another outlet to the growing list of sources Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) allegedly plagiarized: parts of an op-ed the Kentucky senator wrote in September closely resemble an article published days earlier in The Week.

Buzzfeed reported Monday night that paragraphs from Paul's Washington Times op-ed on mandatory minimum prison sentences, published on Sept. 20, appear to lift language from an article by The Week's Dan Stewart published on Sept. 14.

To give one example, Stewart wrote in his "Rethinking mandatory sentencing" that "By design, mandatory sentencing laws take discretion away from prosecutors and judges so as to impose harsh sentences, regardless of circumstances."

Paul's op-ed contained a virtually identical sentence: "By design, mandatory-sentencing laws take discretion away from prosecutors and judges so as to impose harsh sentences, regardless of circumstances."

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