Newly Released Eric Holder Memo: Feds Can Use FISA to Spy on Journalists
And the guidelines for spying on journalists may be even looser under Trump.
And the guidelines for spying on journalists may be even looser under Trump.
"I'm thinking about it."
He's an intolerant deep-state hypocrite, for starters.
The impact of the new charging policy was not as big as the DOJ implied.
His Department of Justice prosecuted legal marijuana growers in the Golden State, but that was totally different!
The former attorney general supported mandatory minimums for drug offenses as a federal prosecutor in the 1990s.
The former attorney general says cannabis does not belong in the same category as heroin.
Absent other criminal charges, they won't go after those suspected of 'structured' deposits.
Holder argues Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies.
An administration that often complains it doesn't have enough power to act unilaterally can do so with marijuana but says it can't.
Eric Holder finally listens.
System was rife with abuse, encouraging law enforcement agencies to take people's property without charging them with crimes.
No doubt it's just a coincidence
How the attorney general tried to make criminal justice less senselessly punitive
But doesn't understand mistrust of government?
Civil liberties? Oh yeah. We have that covered.
Hundreds of thousands of non-violent drug offenders are wasting their lives away in U.S. prisons.
Federal grants will be offered for more research.
Attorney general urges U.S. Sentencing Commission to back reduced sentences for some drug offenders
Says, "These restrictions are not only unnecessary and unjust, they are also counterproductive"
Made the comment before the Senate Judiciary Committee
The attorney general adds that full clemency is "going too far"