As a reaction to the crack epidemic of the 1980s, many federal drug laws carry strict mandatory sentences. This has stirred unease in Congress and sparked a bipartisan effort to revise and relax some of the more draconian laws.
Traditionally — meaning before Barack Obama — that’s how laws were changed: We have a problem, we hold hearings, we find some new arrangement, which is ratified by Congress and signed by the president.
That was then. On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder, a liberal in a hurry, ordered all U.S. attorneys to simply stop charging nonviolent, non-gang-related drug defendants with crimes that, while fitting the offense, carry mandatory sentences. Find some lesser, non-triggering charge. How might you do that? Withhold evidence — e.g., about the amount of dope involved.
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2 comments:
But, you've got a black, liberal, communist, Attorney General, appointed by Obama, because he doesn't give a damn about Congress or the Constitution either. If the current House and Senate members soon don't begin impeachment proceedings against Obama, Democrat or Republican, we should send them packing in 2014.
every prosecutor that has accepted a plea arrangement is guilty of the same thing. No difference. Declining to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
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