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| Sweeping change at DOJ under Sessions | |
| 2017-04-17 | |
[THEHILL] Attorney General Jeff Sessions has brought sweeping change to the Department of Justice.
He has rolled back protections for transgender students that allowed children to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity and rescinded plans to phase out the federal government’s use of private prisons. He called for a review of reform agreements, known as consent decrees, reached with local police departments to address allegations of misconduct. Many of the consent decrees were drafted in response to fating shootings by police. Sessions has made immigration enforcement a top priority. Late last month he put "sanctuary" cities on notice, announcing that grant money would be withheld from state and local governments that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities and turn over illegal im Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for crimes. Federal prosecutors have also been alerted to a new national push to crack down on violent crime. Sessions tapped Steven Cook, a federal prosecutor and outspoken opponent of criminal justice reform, to lead the charge as assistant deputy attorney general; he will be leading Sessions’ new Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety. Alex Whiting, faculty co-director of the Criminal Justice Policy Program at Harvard Law School, said it appears Sessions is resurrecting the tough on crime policies last seen during the George W. Bush administration. "Obama moved away from that approach, and I think in the criminal justice world there seemed to be a consensus between the right and left that those policies, those rigid policies of the war on drugs and trying to get the highest sentence all the time, had failed," he said. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Fating shooting? Do they shoot you and you get fat? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-04-17 13:41 |
| #1 Nice strawman, Alex. seemed to be a consensus between the right and left that those rigid policies of the war on drugs and trying to get the highest sentence all the time, had failed Maybe Sessions is trying to crack down on violent crime, not excuse it as 'unjust'. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-04-17 13:32 |