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Eric Holder: Obama’s ‘Clemency Project’ will help drug offenders sentenced under ‘the old regime’
The Daily Caller ^ | April 21, 2014 | Patrick Howley

Posted on 04/22/2014 2:51:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Attorney General Eric Holder criticized drug sentences doled out under “the old regime” in a video Monday announcing the Obama administration’s “Clemency Project 2014.”

“In 2010, President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act reducing unfair disparities in sentences imposed on people for offenses involving different forms of cocaine. But there’s still too many people in federal prison who were sentenced under the old regime and who, as a result, will have to spend far more time in prison than they would if sentenced today for exactly the same crime. This is simply not right,” Holder says in the video....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacks; bush; cocaine; drugs; ericholder; holder; obama; obamalies; prison
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Yes, you read that correctly.
1 posted on 04/22/2014 2:51:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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It’s all about black!!


2 posted on 04/22/2014 2:53:36 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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New communist governments in the old Soviet Union would always blame everything on the past leaders, no matter what it is.

As we have all noticed, this is the exact thing the ObamaFascist do.


3 posted on 04/22/2014 2:53:37 PM PDT by stockpirate (Only a tidal wave of tyrants blood will return our tree of liberty......)
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The “law” is what 0bama the Lawless says it is.


4 posted on 04/22/2014 2:53:45 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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What the heck — let’s just cut ‘em all loose, just as soon as Holder takes out a special section of the paper with photos, names, and descriptions so the public will know who’s out there and can have a chance to re-balance the system.


5 posted on 04/22/2014 2:56:58 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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The ORCS will get to vote?


6 posted on 04/22/2014 2:57:24 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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Brave New World


7 posted on 04/22/2014 3:00:47 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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The old regime, as opposed to the current one. Rush will have a field day with this tomorrow.
8 posted on 04/22/2014 3:01:27 PM PDT by fhayek
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Protecting his choom gang bros.


9 posted on 04/22/2014 3:01:57 PM PDT by bgill
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and votes!


10 posted on 04/22/2014 3:02:46 PM PDT by FES0844
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Obama needs more votes in November..that is what this is about..more felons get released, more Dem voters


11 posted on 04/22/2014 3:03:12 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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You mean the constitutional one?


12 posted on 04/22/2014 3:03:40 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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There will be a long list of non-descript felons, but one or two very important ones who have paid their way out, probably through Brennan’s CIA.


13 posted on 04/22/2014 3:03:41 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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There were no laws in Winston Smith’s `Oceania.’
Big Brother decided what was legal and illegal.
A lot like Obama’s Amerika, 2014.


14 posted on 04/22/2014 3:04:08 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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yup...criminals in jail are....60% black, 20% latino and 20% other.


15 posted on 04/22/2014 3:07:51 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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16 posted on 04/22/2014 3:10:40 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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Obama is the most successful gun salesman in the world.


17 posted on 04/22/2014 3:11:34 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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1. Take the ranchers to jail

2. Let the drug-dealers out

WHO WOULD JOIN THE MILITARY TO FIGHT FOR **THIS**....?


18 posted on 04/22/2014 3:11:46 PM PDT by gaijin
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Vote buying.


19 posted on 04/22/2014 3:13:28 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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Repatriate them to Chiraq/Chicongo.


20 posted on 04/22/2014 3:22:38 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Believe In The Law Until It Intereferes With Justice. And Pay Your Liberty Tax Citizen.)
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