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http://www.mapinc.org/pix/xmlpower.gifUS: Federal Prosecutor Unlikely To Pursue Low-Level Marijuana Crimes
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Buffalo News, 27 Jan 2018 - When Attorney General Jeff Sessions did away with the Obama-era, hands-off approach to recreational marijuana, he left the door open to a new federal crackdown on the drug. He also left the discretion for any stepped-up enforcement in the laps of his local prosecutors. Fairbanks, PhilBuffalo NewsHolder, Eric2018-02-01US: OPED: Mandatory Minimums Don't Deserve Your Ire
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Wall Street Journal, 26 May 2017 - Mandatory Minimums Don't Deserve Your Ire Jeff Sessions's policy won't lock up harmless stoners, but it will help dismantle drug-trafficking networks. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is being tarred as a racist-again-for bringing the law fully to bear on illegal drug traffickers. Mr. Sessions has instructed federal prosecutors to disclose in court the actual amount of drugs that trafficking defendants possessed at the time of arrest. That disclosure will trigger the mandatory penalties set by Congress for large-scale dealers. MacDonald, HeatherWall Street JournalHolder, Eric2017-05-26US: Editorial: Lurching Backward On Justice Reform
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New York Times, 22 May 2017 - When it comes to criminal justice, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a man out of time - stuck defiantly in the 1980s, when crime in America was high and politicians scrambled to out-tough one another by passing breathtakingly severe sentencing laws. This mind-set was bad enough when Mr. Sessions was a senator from Alabama working to thwart sentencing reforms in Congress. Now that he is the nation's top law enforcement officer, he's trying to drag the country backward with him, even as most states are moving toward more enlightened policies. On May 12, Mr. Sessions announced a drastic policy ordering federal prosecutors to pursue the toughest possible charges against crime suspects in all cases, rescinding an Obama administration directive that focused on reducing punishments for low-level, nonviolent offenders, mostly in drug cases, and steering more law-enforcement resources toward the bigger fish. That approach was working: The federal prison population started to drop for the first time in years, even as crime has remained at historic lows. New York TimesHolder, Eric2017-05-22US: Mixed Grades For A Scrapped Drug Policy
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Wall Street Journal, 15 May 2017 - When Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week jettisoned an Obama administration policy that had been aimed at sparing less-serious drug offenders from harsh sentences, he called his new, more aggressive approach "moral and just." But the verdict among law-enforcement and legal professionals is more mixed. Government data, along with interviews with former U.S. attorneys who advised the Justice Department under President Barack Obama, suggest the previous policy achieved several, though not all, of its goals. Reinhard, BethWall Street JournalHolder, Eric2017-05-20US: Sessions Toughens Policy For Drug Cases
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Wall Street Journal, 13 May 2017 - In a move expected to swell federal prisons, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scuttling an Obama administration policy to avoid charging nonviolent, less-serious drug offenders with long, mandatory-minimum sentences. Mr. Sessions's new guidelines revive a policy created under President George W. Bush that tasked federal prosecutors with charging "the most serious readily provable offense." Reinhard, BethWall Street JournalHolder, Eric2017-05-13US CA: Trump Attorney General Pick May Spur Legal Battles Over Pot
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Napa Valley Register, 30 Dec 2016 - Thomas Elias writes the syndicated California Focus column, appearing twice weekly in 93 newspapers around California, with circulation of over 2.2 million. As a United States attorney in Alabama serving under President Ronald Reagan in 1986, the 39-year-old Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was charged with enforcing civil rights laws. But he said then that he didn't have much of a problem with what the Ku Klux Klan stood for, musing that he thought the KKK was "OK until I found out they smoked pot." Elias, ThomasNapa Valley RegisterHolder, Eric2016-12-31US: Editorial: Jeff Sessions And Civil Forfeiture
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Wall Street Journal, 27 Dec 2016 - The AG nominee should be asked about an abusive practice. Democrats are wrong in most of their criticism of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General. But if they or fellow Republicans are looking for a legitimate area to probe, they should explore his views on governmenta€™s use of civil forfeiture. Wall Street JournalHolder, Eric2016-12-27US IL: OPED: Is Our Constitution Going To Pot?
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Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec 2016 - Imagine this: Upon taking his oath of office, President Donald Trump instructs his new attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to ignore civil rights laws. How would that go over? Before you yell, "But we are a nation of laws!" you can thank President Barack Obama and his prior Attorney General Eric Holder for magnifying this issue. Basically, the Obama administration made it standard operating procedure to ignore laws they thought unfashionable or unworthy. Choslovsky, WilliamChicago TribuneHolder, Eric2016-12-12US: New Attorney General Could Mean No More Smoke Sessions
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Tucson Weekly, 24 Nov 2016 - Roll Out New attorney general could mean "no more smoke" Sessions While many are still reeling from election night's results, some of that dizzying effect may owe itself to new marijuana laws in eight states. Only one state didn't pass its marijuana ballot measure, and we all already know who it is. Meyers, NickTucson WeeklyHolder, Eric2016-11-28More Headlines
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