Here we go--our lovely Attorney General is calling for tougher drug crime prosecutions

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/attorney-general-sessions-orders-tougher-drug-crime-prosecutions-n758111

This fucking guy

TL;DR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uvEpmD7OUE


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[1 Points] wombat2combat:

Attorney General Sessions Orders Tougher Drug Crime Prosecutions

Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered federal prosecutors this week to seek the maximum punishment for drug offenses, in one of the clearest breaks yet from the policies of the Justice Department under the Obama administration.

The move is an abrupt departure from policy made by President Barack Obama's attorney general, to reduce the number of people convicted of certain lower-level drug crimes being given long jail terms.

The change, "affirms our responsibility to enforce the law, is moral and just, and produces consistency," Sessions said, in a memo to federal prosecutors written May 10 and made public Friday.

But former Attorney General Eric Holder, the architect of the Obama administration reforms, called Sessions' move "unwise and uninformed" and warned it would "take this nation back to a discredited past."

"The policy announced today is not tough on crime. It's dumb on crime," Holder said in a statement. "It is an ideologically motivated, cookie-cutter approach that has only been proven to generate unfairly long sentences that are often applied indiscriminately and do little to achieve long-term public safety."

Sessions' memo urged prosecutors to file "the most serious, readily provable" charges that carry the most substantial punishment, including mandatory minimum sentences.

It marked a reversal of the policy imposed in 2013 under Holder's "smart on crime" initiative. This directed prosecutors not to report the amount of drugs involved in an arrest if it would trigger mandatory minimums for non-violent offenders who had no ties to drug cartels or gangs and who did not sell to children.

In announcing his policy, Holder said at the time, "With an outsized, unnecessarily large prison population, we need to ensure that incarceration is used to punish, deter, and rehabilitate — not merely to warehouse and forget." Prosecutors were directed instead to focus on the most serious offenses.

Holder's approach included legislation to reduce some mandatory minimum sentences. Although it received bi-partisan support in Congress, it did not pass. One of those against the idea was Sessions, who did however support the successful move to reduce the disparity between sentences for offenses involving crack, as opposed to powdered cocaine.

Some prosecutors opposed Holder's directive, saying it deprived them of a tool for persuading drug crime defendants to plead guilty. But two years after imposing his policy, Holder said the share of cases in which defendants cooperated remained the same — about 97 percent.

In this week's memo, Sessions said the change was consistent with the Justice Department's responsibility "to fulfill our role in a way that accords with the law, advances public safety, and promotes respect for our legal system."

But Holder said Friday that since he gave prosecutors more discretion four years ago, the number of cases carrying mandatory minimum sentences have dropped and the prosecution of high-level drug offenders had increased ─ without impacting the rates at which people cooperated with authorities or pleaded guilty.

"Abandoning this evidence-based progress and turning back the clock to a discredited, emotionally motivated, ideological policy also threatens the financial stability of the federal criminal justice system," Holder said. "These reversals will be both substantively and financially ruinous, setting the Department back on a track to again spending one third of its budget on incarcerating people, rather than preventing, detecting, or investigating crime."


[105 Points] The_Squibz:

Smoke weed ---> go to prison for life

Rape children ---> a couple years

Manslaughter ---> a few years

Wow, I guess Jeff Sessions really has his priorities in place! /s


[57 Points] joaboabam:

Attorney General is fucking retard. It's 2017 and he can't understand tougher prosecutions can't help. Are there any smart people in our govt?


[29 Points] FilthySnark:

Fuck this backwards ass hick piece of shit. I bet he has stock in private prisons


[12 Points] None:

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[13 Points] MenuBar:

I saw them in a nightmare once. They're called "Drug Squads" and they're made up of neighborhood volunteers armed with guns and cudgels, self-governed with the task of eliminating even the slightest suspicion of drug usage, and aided by the local police to enforce their unique form of misguided vigilante justice. Nothing but death, fire and ruin lies in their wake. It was the end of civilized society as we know it. Their motivation; blind patriotism to inhuman politics.


[10 Points] None:

Why is it always that the people who could benefit the most from some recreational drug therapy are the ones most dead set against anybody using drugs?


[11 Points] None:

I don't smoke anymore, so this is whatever to me. But as a military recruiter, I'm bothered that stoners may start getting felonies for smoking. Makes my job harder


[10 Points] JeffSessions_Vendor:

Its alright everyone. I'm here to fight the war on drugs.


[9 Points] StealthySally:

The Obama AG Eric Holder suggested federal prosecutors used their discretion as to the severity of charges levied on those indicted. This was to avoid draconian mandatory minimums being handed out to federal nonviolent drug offenders. Sessions now wants prosecutors to throw the book at drug offenders, chargeing them to the full extent of the law, leaving judges no choice with regard to mandatory minimums when they deliver their sentences.


[8 Points] transcendReality:

Let's hope he gets cancer and dies asap.


[5 Points] Optimistic-angel1:

This is why i made a post a while back about all of us drug user's coming together. It does'nt matter your drug of choice or if your an occasional user you get caught your fucked. If all of us come together and protested for the right to use then we would stand a better chance.

Where all soldiers in the war the cops, dea, informants on one side and users, dealers on the other. We just dont fight back. Think about it put a gun in every user/dealers hand and tell them to take out as many cops/dea as possible and you have a real drug war. I bet it would change the way the dea looks at it when its not 1 sided anymore (not saying to do this im for peaceful protest).

But something needs to change watching people get abused on cops over getting high frustrates the shit out of me.


[5 Points] murderhomelesspeople:

Losing a shit ton of RC's as well.


[3 Points] ciphersexual:

Anyone in here with a felony+? If so, are you able to vote?


[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] theheeguy10:

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[1 Points] Medacali:

Jeff Sessions needs to take his ill-informed racist ass back to Alabama


[-6 Points] None:

I don't like how the black gentleman is calling it a racist bill and white people dont go to jail for possession. That is bullshit ask me how I know. Fuck off


[-9 Points] Borax:

This is why we voted for trump. I don't see why people are complaining?


[-23 Points] None:

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