[woolvalley]

You can apply the same logic toward civil disobedience and people ignoring unjust laws during the civil right movement era or ghandi's era.

I think many would agree that kind of 'law breaking' should be cleared, and they apply the same logic to non-violent drug offences.

There is also a good segment who were forced into plea bargains due to the structure of the US legal system, the pattern of racism in arrests, convictions, evidence planting and so on. We know a chunk of those people are in jail for bullshit reasons, and thus the push towards releasing these people and removing the records.