Other less obvious areas of potential agreement are criminal-justice reform and voting rights.
It was a sobering view of how drug policies were corroding trust in the criminal-justice system.
But Holder was way ahead of his own administration when it came to criminal-justice reforms.
In the Bulger saga, culpability within the criminal-justice system spreads far and wide.
Yet I still believe in the criminal-justice system, as I did after the Simpson verdict.