Friday, May 12, 2017

HORROR Sessions Issues Sweeping New Criminal Drug Charging Policy

This is not exactly a move in the direction of liberty.

Welcome to Trump World.

The Washington Post reports:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed his federal prosecutors Thursday to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties.

The Holder memo, issued in August 2013, instructed his prosecutors to avoid charging certain defendants with drug offenses that would trigger long mandatory minimum sentences. Defendants who met a set of criteria such as not belonging to a large-scale drug trafficking organization, gang or cartel, qualified for lesser charges — and in turn less prison time — under Holder’s policy.

But Sessions’s new charging policy, outlined in a two-page memo and sent to more than 5,000 assistant U.S. attorneys across the country and all assistant attorneys general in Washington, orders prosecutors to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense” and rescinds Holder’s policy immediately.

The Sessions memo marks the first significant criminal justice effort by the Trump administration to bring back the toughest practices of the drug war, which had fallen out of favor in recent years with a bipartisan movement to undo the damaging effects of mass incarceration...

The new policy is expected to lead to more federal prosecutions and an increase in the federal prison population.
It is very difficult to find anything to like about the Trump administration. It is filled with monsters.

  -RW 

4 comments:

  1. It's depressing to see both writers and commenters at zerohedge cheering Sessions (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-12/sessions-rolls-back-obamas-relaxed-sentencing-guidelines-drug-dealers ). Surely they're not so stupid as to believe that drugs will go away as a result. I think they just like being punitively nasty, and don't mind spending their own money (and ours) playing out their nasty fantasies.

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  2. Scott Horton's Rule is playing out. All good promises are forgotten and discarded. All the horrible ones are kept.

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  3. This represents the first true test of states and their attorneys to stand against the over-reaching Fed and a greed driven policy that is contrary to the will of the people.

    Stand Strong states

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  4. Drug Warriors and their supporters are nothing but cowards

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