Posted on 01/31/2014 9:19:21 AM PST by Olog-hai
Congress can pass legislation giving judges more discretion in the sentencing of prisoners, but President Obama “also has the ability to take executive action” to commute the sentences of “low-level” drug offenders—and that’s just what he plans to do, Deputy Attorney General James Cole told the New York State Bar Association annual meeting on Thursday.
“A little over a month ago, the President commuted the sentences of eight men and women who were sentenced under severe—and out of date—mandatory minimum sentencing laws,” Cole said. …
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We’ve got plenty of empty prisons here in Michigan that would make great places to house elected traitors.
oh hey thanks
I’ll try that on the dog :-)
Yeah his son wants OUT! ! ! ! !
They gotta pay for those drugs somehow, and they will sometimes do whatever they have to for their fix. The number one reason most people carry now somehow works back to drugs I think.
How many will repeat and be arrested for something within the first 3 months of getting out?
90%+ is my guess...
And of course since blacks are given stiffer sentences than whites and since blacks are more likely to use drugs purely because of the fact that they have been held back by the man and because they have been denied the opportunity to succeed. They will be the first ones released.
Possession with intent to deal is one of the easier things to prove in court..but lots of these critters are guilty of much worse and I expect that they will return to their previous occupations when they get out of prison.
Commuting sentences and granting pardons is part of the Executive branch’s mandate to enforce the law. I don’t see this particular executive action as being unconstitutional.
Just like he planned it.
Those who commit actual crimes to support their bad habits are the ones who deserve prosecution. And a primary reasons such people do commit crimes is because of the ridiculous costs which Prohibition causes by forcing people into the black market.
The vast majority of "partiers" are everyday Americans who don't commit crimes, work hard at their jobs, and don't belong in prison for possessing the wrong plant, medicine, or chemical (or gun, for that matter, because there People who commit actual crime is logically where the line should be drawn, not mass incarceration for violating contraband laws.
Keep real criminals behind bars longer, and focus on rehabilitating people with substance abuse problems, and society will be a better place, without all the Tyranny.
I'd argue that the federal drug-laws are illegitimate in the first place.
Consider that in order to regulate alcohol the eighteenth-amendment was passed — no such amendment exists WRT drugs.
Consider, also, that the regulations are applies on an intrastate scope while congress's "commerce clause" power is supposed to be interstate.
Consider that the interstate commerce clause has been expanded from intrastate commerce to included non-commerce.
(See Wickard, and Raich)
When it comes to dogs I don’t think he makes executive orders, he makes lunch orders.
I fixed an editing error:
Those who commit actual crimes to support their bad habits are the ones who deserve prosecution. And a primary reasons such people do commit crimes is because of the ridiculous costs which Prohibition causes by forcing people into the black market.
The vast majority of "partiers" are everyday Americans who don't commit crimes, work hard at their jobs, and don't belong in prison for possessing the wrong plant, medicine, or chemical (or gun, for that matter, because there are people who get railroaded for that, too.)
People who commit actual crime is logically where the line should be drawn, not mass incarceration for violating contraband laws.
Keep real criminals behind bars longer, and focus on rehabilitating people with substance abuse problems, and society will be a better place, without all the Tyranny.
Same here — and given that the War on Drugs is an entirely illegitimate system, I don't have any argument against this.
I suppose it’s easier for criminals to vote Democrat MORE THAN ONCE if they’re not in prison.
No, silly, this is for dogs!.....................
Blacks and latinos will never do time for anything. Their legal costs are a burden on our for profit legal system.
Affirmative Action Pardon Program?
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