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>> “since Mike Lee is one of those wanting to loosen the mandatory minimum sentencing laws and go back to the time when liberal judges gave violent felons a slap on the wrist.” <<
Nonsense!
Nuff trolling.
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"What's the biggest domestic public policy success of the last two generations? In our view, it's the plummeting crime rate that began with a changed approach to crime in the Reagan years.
"The new approach had two major components -- proactive policing and mandatory minimum sentencing that set floors below which judges cannot go in sentencing serious offenders...
"Now, a group of senators from both parties proposes to slash many of the mandatory minimum sentences for federal crimes. Their legislation, the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, is sponsored by the usual suspects -- Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Lindsey Graham -- but also by some unusual ones, notably Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Mike Lee..."