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| While You Obsessed Over Trump's Scandals, He's Fundamentally Changed The Country |
| 2017-06-06 |
| [HUFFPOO] On the morning of May 12, Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed that he had instructed federal prosecutors to begin pursuing lengthier prison sentences for drug offenders. It was a draconian change in approach that flew in the face of a growing bipartisan agreement on sentencing reform. "He’s completely discarded what has been an emerging consensus about how best to keep the country safe," said Matthew Miller, a former Department of Justice spokesman. "[O]ne of the most extreme voices in the country on criminal justice policy just happened to be put into the most important job for shaping its future." The move was then largely buried under an avalanche of Donald Trump-related news. Just hours after Sessions’ policy was revealed, the president tweeted that he may have taped conversations with his recently-fired FBI director, James Comey. With less than 140 characters, Washington was abuzz again over Trump’s potential ties to Russia, which Comey had been investigating. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 Besoeker, in a word, yes. Trump is playing "Watch this hand over here" while the other hand is busy undoing and fixing Barack's legacy of failure. |
| Posted by: Chesney Wittlesbach8478 2017-06-06 18:17 |
| #6 It would be cheaper to give them all the drugs they can stuff inside them |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-06-06 16:52 |
| #5 Just saw today that annual cost to incarcerate someone in CA is now something like $75k. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2017-06-06 14:18 |
| #4 "growing bipartisan agreement on sentencing reform." Well if there is bipartisan support for sentencing reform then reform sentencing, don't tell the law to not do their jobs. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-06-06 10:10 |
| #3 "It was a draconian change in approach..." Former AG Holder instructed federal prosecutors to ignore sentencing guide lines. Now AG Sessions comes in and instructs prosecutors to revert back to pre-Obama days. And as "draconian" as it may sound to some, he's telling prosecutors to follow the statutes as written. Kinda old school really - back before laws could be changed with a cell phone and a pen. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2017-06-06 09:06 |
| #2 On the morning of May 12, Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed that he had instructed federal prosecutors to begin pursuing lengthier prison sentences for drug FIFY. HUFFY wants you to think of poor addicted users. Wonder what Huffy would say if some major food supplier (the suits) was found pushing tainted products they knew would harm the consumer? /rhet question |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-06-06 09:02 |
| #1 Are you telling me Trump is now exploiting the left's Russian diversion ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-06-06 06:00 |