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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-issues-sweeping-new-criminal-charging-policy/2017/05/11/4752bd42-3697-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_sessions-7a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.61ec702435ddAttorney 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 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.
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Use weed? Sessions orders harshest charges for non violent users. (Original Post)
Cattledog
May 2017
OP
Because how else will you put large numbers of black people in jail for no reason?
wildeyed
May 2017
#10
MineralMan
(146,351 posts)1. Time for a mass smoke-in on the National Mall.
Yup.
flakey_foont
(3,343 posts)8. And if the wind is blowing just right
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)2. Just when we need weed the most...
BeyondGeography
(39,395 posts)4. Reefer and Republican Admins go hand-in-hand
Like Reagan would have been bearable without getting high and listening to Gil Scott-Heron.
Initech
(100,149 posts)3. I hate these fucking assholes.
CountAllVotes
(20,884 posts)5. Get rid of crook Sessions
Do it NOW not later!
These people are a bunch of crooked losers!
Jim__
(14,096 posts)6. Yes, the US definitely needs a larger prison population.
That'll solve the crime problem.
Luz
(772 posts)7. Say, I happen to know a few private companies that would
just love to build them. Heck, I'll bet Beauregard does too.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)9. Beauregard needs a brownie
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)10. Because how else will you put large numbers of black people in jail for no reason?
They are having a hard time getting people to even sit juries for minor weed offenses in my city.