Posted on 05/12/2017 5:45:43 AM PDT by blam
Attorney General Jeff Sessions' office sent out a letter late Thursday to the nation's federal prosecutors instructing them to pursue the most serious charges possible against most criminal suspects.
The move will send more people to prison and for much longer terms by triggering mandatory minimum sentences.
Officials at the Department of Justice said the new guidelines are a direct rebuttal of policies implemented under President Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder.
The memo is already being referred to as “the Sessions Memo.” The 94 U.S. attorneys were instructed in the memo to “charge and pursue the most serious and readily provable offense.”
These cases often carry the longest sentences.The memo also brings back into effect mandatory minimum sentences, which are expected to increase prosecutions and the prison population.
Holder, who served under the Obama administration, implemented the “Smart on Crime” drug sentencing policy that focused on not incarcerating people who committed low level non-violent crimes.
The Obama administration used the “Smart on Crime” policy to combat what they believed was a high number of prosecutions of non-violent drug offenders. DOJ officials call it a “false narrative” and say unless a gun is involved, most of those cases aren’t charged period.
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BTW, Sessions was my choice for president before Trump.
Sharpton, NAACP, SJWs will scream racism over this.
Is Hillary worried?
First question:
Have they not all been fired, and replaced by normal people?
Second question:
If not, why not?
OUTSTANDING
This is for FEDERAL prosecution, not state or local.
And after they read memo, a wink & a nod?
Sessions better not be planning to throw the book at the folks facing trial in Nevada and or already tried over the Bunkerville Standoff in 2014.
The Trump Administration needs to release those people and stop the prosecution.
When do those ranchers whose plight triggered the Oregon Standoff protest in 2016 get released.
Dwight and Steven Hammond are serving five year mandatory terrorism sentences for lighting a backfire to protect their property from a brushfire.
Release them, Mr. President.
When the DOJ obtains a conviction on ANY Traitorobama kakistocrat, then I'll believe we are starting to begin the initial steps toward first stages of REAL change.
What !?!
Y’all whitey’s wanna take from my brutha’s what is rightfully theirs?
Give a brutha three-hots and a cot and he’ll voting Dhimmicratic the rest of his term...er, life!
A beginning.
Now to roll back the terrible equalality in incidence of punishments across races in schools
And that HUD policy to integrate every community in the country block by block.
“The move will send more people to prison and for much longer terms by triggering mandatory minimum sentences.”....
Trump did say he was going to create jobs and make America great again. This is one way, think of all the engineers, designers, workers, suppliers, etc. that will be needed to build all the new prisons it will take to house these criminals. By the way, I’m all for locking them up.
[BTW, Sessions was my choice for president before Trump.]
Thankfully Trump doesn’t fold under pressure. He only gets bolder!
More Winning.
Sessions MVP—but I’m very happy with the man in charge. I’m just so glad Sessions is not VP! Trumps energy and bluntness may make him greater than Reagan. If there’s a Trump Party, I’d leave the GOP in a flash.
If they do the crime let them do the time......
Ann Coulter explained this a while back. What happens is even with violent crimes, the criminal plea bargains down and is then sentenced at the non-violent level, i.e., no jail time. That is why the spike in violent crime over the past 7 years in the most violent communities, leaving our most vulnerable citizens completely unprotected.
This is the first quiz in a multiple question test. Those who follow the letter to the letter get to go on through to the next one. Those who fail #1 will be #2 and flushed.
THROW THE WORST CRIMINALS IN JAIL FIRST
AND FOR THE LONGEST TIME POSSIBLE.
Next Please.
so will the SLRC and the ACLU.
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