Criminal justice advocates have lobbied for decades to roll back the law. In 2007, Biden endorsed legislation that would have completely eliminated the disparity. A compromise bill, the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, reduced it from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1.
In 2018, the FIRST Step Act made the Fair Sentencing Act’s reductions retroactive, leading to the release of roughly 3,000 federal crack offenders.
This bill equalizes it I believe....
“In 2010, the sentencing disparity between powder and crack cocaine offenses was only partially rectified through the Fair Sentencing Act. The Fair Sentencing Act, passed on August 3, 2010, generally required that sentences for powder and crack cocaine offenses be the same. “
From the link I posted.
It sounds like the dems are trying to take credit for something already done. Maybe I’m missing something.
“In 2010, the sentencing disparity between powder and crack cocaine offenses was only partially rectified through the Fair Sentencing Act. The Fair Sentencing Act, passed on August 3, 2010, generally required that sentences for powder and crack cocaine offenses be the same. However, the Fair Sentencing Act only applied to offenders who were sentenced after August 3, 2010. That meant that anyone sentenced before that date had to continue to live with the inherent unfairness of disparate sentences between crack and powder cocaine.”
whole paragraph.