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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 Phoenix666 on Wednesday May 17 2017, @12:54PM (3 children)
No, no, you're obviously right. The same sources that proved Hillary was going to win the election in a walk have now, per you, proven that Trump won because racism. You have proven that the clear economics that Americans live every day had nothing to do with why they voted for Trump, and that all that was eclipsed by the simplistic racism of credulous white racists.
You see, I know how to push-poll, too. I can design surveys that produce the answers I'm looking for. I can oversample and undersample to skew trends. There are all sorts of ways to use data to lie. And if I have a narrative I'm trying to serve, and purpose to de-legitimize a guy or trend I don't like, it's so seductively easy to do all of that to "prove" I'm right.
It's easy to fool people who don't know anything about social science or statistics or PR, isn't it?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:28PM (2 children)
> The same sources that proved Hillary was going to win the election in a walk have now
(a) The polling did not show that. Pundits spun a thin a margin into a decisive win for sensationalistic news.
(b) It isn't even close to the same thing - this isn't push polling at all. These are academic researchers.
> It's easy to fool people who don't know anything about social science or statistics or PR, isn't it?
Its even easier to fool conspiracy freaks.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday May 17 2017, @09:35PM (1 child)
Sigh. Yes, sure, pal. The NSA is not really spying on us. Bush & Cheney really were telling the truth about Saddam and his weapons of mass destruction. The DNC wasn't really rigging the primaries for Hillary. Anything else factual, proven, that you would like us to now dismiss while you're waving your hand and smearing all of us as "conspiracy freaks?"
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @11:00PM
Gee, is that the best you can do? There once was an actual conspiracy, so all conspiracies must be true!
And thus we know that the Killary body count is all true, so is pizzagate, spirit-cooking and Obama really was born in Kenya.
If you are trying to convince us that you are a conspiracy freak you are doing a bang-up job.