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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @07:10PM
> Clue: pro abortion.
No more so than the rest of France. Meanwhile her party, the National Front, has a long history of opposing feminism in general and abortion specifically, calling it "anti-french genocide."
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/all-hail-marine-le-pen-feminist-champion-modern-france-1493861 [ibtimes.co.uk]
> Clue: pro secular state.
Only in as much as it allows her to campaign against excluding non-catholics.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/christian-identity-france/525558/ [theatlantic.com]
> Clue: pro LGBT rights.
Except for marriage equality, she's against that and the National Front is homofoe central.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/04/18/anti-gay-marriage-marine-le-pen-could-scrape-to-victory-in-unpredictable-four-way-french-election/ [pinknews.co.uk]
> Clue: anti death penalty.
Pretty much the entire western world has outlawed the death penalty.
And yet Marine her self was calling for it to be re-instated just two years ago:
http://www.newsweek.com/marine-le-pen-calls-bring-back-death-penalty-after-paris-shooting-297742 [newsweek.com]