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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, Informative) by tangomargarine on Tuesday May 16 2017, @03:21PM (1 child)
Exhibit A in favor of modifying how long comments get collapsed :P
Presumably it wasn't since it's all in one tag?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @09:56PM
Aardvark [mozilla.org]
Some more pages/images. [google.com]
After downloading and installing the extension (and restarting your browser):
- Right-click; select Start Aardvark (it's actually a toggle).
- Move your cursor until the part of the page that you want removed is surrounded by the red rectangular outline.
-- If you have a problem surrounding the exact area you want, use the w (Wider) command; if you overshoot, there's the n (narrow) command.
- Hit r (Remove) and the annoying part of the page disappears.
- When you're happy with the page presentation, hit q (Quit Aardvark) or go back to the right-click toggle.
The extension will also do other stuff. [mozilla.net]
N.B. I haven't seen d (De-widthify) do what it says it will: get pages that overshoot the right side of the window to ignore widths that are specified in pixels.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]