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Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday that he has directed his federal prosecutors to pursue the most severe penalties possible, including mandatory minimum sentences, in his first step toward a return to the war on drugs of the 1980s and 1990s that resulted in long sentences for many minority defendants and packed U.S. prisons.
[...] In the later years of the Obama administration, a bipartisan consensus emerged on Capitol Hill for sentencing reform legislation, which Sessions opposed and successfully worked to derail.
In a two-page memo to federal prosecutors across the country, Sessions overturned former attorney general Eric H. Holder's sweeping criminal charging policy that instructed his prosecutors to avoid charging certain defendants with offenses that would trigger long mandatory minimum sentences. In its place, Sessions told his more than 5,000 assistant U.S. attorneys to charge defendants with the most serious crimes, carrying the toughest penalties.
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Memorandum on Department Charging and Sentencing Policy - US Department of Justice PDF
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Some call me Tim on Tuesday May 16 2017, @04:55AM (1 child)
Hey stupid! You guys are supposed to be draining the swamp not making it more toxic! We'll see you stupid a$$holes in the mid-terms. We made sure Hillary would never be President and now we're coming after you! Signed, middle America.
Give that money to someone like Space X so some of our younger folks can get the hell off this planet and make something better for the future. I'm too old or I'd go myself.
Questioning science is how you do science!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @04:45PM
Ha ha that's so fucking hilarious! You know that 17% approval rating by the public for Trump's Healthcare Bill? Yeah, we passed that shit and celebrated. You know those states where your vote counts about 1/4 as much as Wyoming? Yeah, tough shit. Please bleat your bullshit whining somewhere else. Sincerely, Your Congressman.