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Jeff Sessions has officially withdrawn a 2013 directive from Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder that allowed prosecutors to avoid handing out mandatory minimum sentences to low-level drug offenders. Under Sessions’ new instructions, prosecutors around the country will presumably be seeking maximum sentences for even the most minor drug crimes – bringing back the full force of the war on drugs.
According to Politico, Sessions sent a memo to federal prosecutors around the country advising them to seek the harshest penalties possible for any offender that crosses their path.
Of course, like every other action and claim Sessions has made since taking the reigns as America’s top cop, he’s given no factual reason or rationale for the new directive that will, if enforced the way Sessions is requesting it be, result in an increases in incarceration.
“It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense.” Sessions wrote in the memo. “”This policy affirms our responsibility to enforce the law, is moral and just, and produces consistency. This policy fully utilizes the tools Congress has given…
