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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @06:30AM
Garbage day is here, folks!
Not even close. Turmp is golden as long as the republicans think he will sign off on their agenda.
Ryan and McConnell will continue to downplay every crazy-ass thing that motherfucker does because all they care about is cutting taxes on the rich.
They relish the chance to the fuck the poor, why should they give a damn about a well-governed country? If you can't afford good governance you have no business expecting it.