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The Five Scariest Things About Jeff Sessions's New War on Drugs

May 12 2017

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff on Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Drug Charges Memo: "...Here’s why this matters in terms of Sessions’ order today: In an environment where you are likely to suffer brutal consequences for charging someone too lightly—and there’s really no way to suffer negative political consequences for charging someone too tough—having a federal environment that says you should be going harder rather than softer on crime might further incentivize folks to be afraid to charge too light. And that’s exactly the wrong signal to be making." Read more here.

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