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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday May 17 2017, @02:52AM (5 children)
As much as I despise Michael Moore, his take on the election is pretty accurate. In fact, I share the attitude, "Fuck the Establishment!" The Establishment, of course, being the marriage of government and megacorporations.
Eisenhower warned us of the military industrial complex, but he probably didn't visualize that the rest of government and corporate America could go the same route.
A MAN Just Won a Gold Medal for Punching a Woman in the Face
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:37PM (3 children)
> In fact, I share the attitude, "
You also share the attitude of insane levels of white anxiety directed at muslims and mexicans.
Its nice to be able to say its about the establishment though. Makes it easy to sleep at night.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:51PM (2 children)
SHUT UP YOU MEXICAN MUSLIM!!!
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday May 17 2017, @09:38PM (1 child)
Look, man, they may speak a different language but you're supposed to call them "Southerners," not, "Mexicans." Real Mexicans drive bigger pickups.
You may be right with "Muslim," though, since nobody but Runaway seems to know what the hell "Daesh" means or how to use it correctly in a sentence.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18 2017, @12:46AM
Mohammad's Daesh is really sore since he passed out in the Blue Oyster bar.
If you spread the Daesh evenly over the field and then plow it in, your plants will grow better.
Daesh the Daeshing Daeshers.
There you go, 3 sentences containing the word Daesh..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 18 2017, @12:33PM
Eisenhower warned us of the military industrial complex, but he probably didn't visualize that the rest of government and corporate America could go the same route.
In the same speech, Eisenhower warned against other things:
“Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields… ,” Eisenhower warned. “Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.”
and earlier on:
But threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise. I mention two only.
So he did visualize that other parts could go that way, and mentioned two of them.