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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @10:37PM
I could have voted Johnson or Stein. I told myself that [voting for Trump] wouldn't be that bad
Just a guess:
You've never been put in charge of hiring for a company.
Apparently, you would choose someone who has no applicable experience and an otherwise empty head.
...plus an overbearing ego that dominates his personality and an always-go-nuclear approach to any criticism.
Anything Trump ever "accomplished" has been done by lawyers.
...and this is after being gifted millions by his daddy.
(Had he simply put that dough in an index fund, he'd have -more- money than his own speculative efforts; his SIX bankruptcies speak to this.)
Trump has zero foreign policy experience and, what's even more impactful, has zero experience in domestic governance.
The way he flounders around doing stupid things shows how empty his head is.
(He doesn't read books.)
Johnson was a governor (and a pretty popular one).
I don't agree with his politics and think that he would mostly do business-friendly stuff, but I'm sure he wouldn't have been so goddamned ham-fisted as an executive.
At a minimum, he wouldn't have taken weeks in office to figure out which end is up.
Stein was a member of her city council and she's a reader, constantly curious about the world.
Listening to her speak it's obvious that she's smart, articulate, and well-informed.
Her platform, you would have found had you made an effort to read it, is pro-worker, pro-consumer, and pro-family (and not in the phony Republican way).
She's anti-dirty energy (Green Party, duh) and has a Green New Deal plan to to move away from fossil fuels while creating jobs.
...but you thought that The Orange Clown "wouldn't be that bad".
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