What Will Sara Carter of Fox News Bring as “Drug Czar”? – Filter Mag
Filter Mag reports that on March 28, President Donald Trump announced Sara Carter as his pick for “drug czar.” Carter, who will need to be confirmed by the Senate, has a background as a journalist and Fox News contributor, with no direct drug policy or public health experience.
SSDP former board member weighed in with his thoughts in the article.
Eric Sterling is the former director of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, a former board member of Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Families Against Mandatory Minimums, and previously served on the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission, among many other drug policy affiliations. His past roles included assistant counsel to the US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. A prolific author on drug policy and legal subjects, he has also taught at George Washington University and American University in Washington, DC.
“She has been a journalist and blogger who has done stories early in her career about Mexican drug trafficking cartels,” Sterling told Filter of Carter, “but she has zero experience or qualification for coordinating at the highest levels complex federal agencies; zero experience managing agencies of any kind and zero subject-matter expertise regarding drugs or law enforcement. It is a measure of how unimportant real qualifications are for the Trump administration.”
