Posted on 09/17/2017 8:42:34 AM PDT by Hojczyk
President Trump may be disillusioned with Jeff Sessions, but the Attorney General is doing an outstanding job. Perhaps his most significant accomplishment is returning the DOJ to the rule of law by reinstituting guidelines that require prosecutors to charge the most serious offenses and ask for the lengthiest prison sentences.
One indication of the significance of this accomplishment is the howling from Team Leniency, including two former Obama-appointed prosecutors — Joyce Vance and Carter Stewart, formerly the United States attorneys for the Northern District of Alabama and the Southern District of Ohio, respectively. Their lament appears in this article for NRO.
Vance and Stewart contend that Sessions has reinstated a “one-size-fits-all policy” that “doesn’t work.”
Andy McCarthy also takes on the Obama-era prosecutors’ claim that the policy Sessions has reinstated “doesn’t work.” To the contrary, the policy, in effect with little variation from from the Carter presidency until the Obama years, is one of several factors that contributed to historic decreases in crime. When bad guys are prosecuted and incarcerated, they can’t prey on our communities. The sooner they are let out, the sooner they commit crimes.
Vance and Stewart also make the familiar arguments about the racial impact of tough sentencing. They ignore the racial impact of the increased crime that results from early release.
Andy doesn’t. He writes:
If you want to obsess over groups, maybe our sympathetic attention should shift to the prey rather than the predators — the racial minorities and poor people who by an outsize margin are victims of crime. That’s the disparate impact worth fretting over. And it is exacerbated when the laws are not enforced.
There’s plenty more straight talk in Andy’s piece. The whole thing is worth reading.
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Too many Americans have no clue what ‘law and order’ looks like from the top down.
Sessions, Sessions. Where have I heard that name before?
Or did he?
You are right. Sessions never should have never have appointed Mueller. Oh, wait.
I am also disillusioned:
All of this is just more of, Laws Are For Little People.
Sessions returned DOJ to the Rule Of Law? When did that happen? Hillary is at Costco, not perp-walking. No perp walk for Lerner, DWS, etc. I’m not seeing any Rule Of Law.
Don’t need more prisons, just more executions.
I’m all for that.
Sessions is getting ready to get ready ..
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