I would like to thank all the people who have worked to move these nominations forward, and congratulate the nominees.
The Supreme Court expressed a very clear view that in America, preferences should not be provided to one ethnic group or racial group over a...
I just proposed to my Republican colleagues that we all reduce our expenditures 15 percent.
I want to make the point that ever since I have been in law enforcement, starting out in 1975, people have had all kinds of plans to fix the...
I believe that a guideline system is better than one based on mandatory minimums and one that is purely discretion-based.
It seems to me that a low level offender can be given a second chance and it ought to be done in a way that has good supervision, as drug co...
I think the American people and I have the view that schools have got to be given some latitude in running the school and maintaining order.
I believe both sides of the aisle here would back you up on that, if you have done it in the right way.
The commission listed 14 priorities for implementing the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, which I cosponsored;
we need to be after those folks, and they will be facing substantial prison sentences.
I understand this will be the last nomination hearing for the 111th Congress and with today's hearing, the Committee has held hearings for 1...
And that strict scrutiny should be applied, which means a very careful review of any situation in which we give one ethnic group or racial g...
The Athens Banner-Herald quoted you as saying, 'Sentencing does not deter crime. The only thing I see sentencing doing is taking a person of...
I do believe, do you not, that the ultimate authority of a judge to adjudicate a person guilty and sentence them to custody provides a kind ...
I agree with that constitutional analysis, very clearly.
It is an important job.
I think about the squeegee crackdowns, the street crimes in New York that New York cracked down on, and all crime plummeted when they did th...
they were implemented with clarity, without equivocation, and it, I think, was another one of the factors in the decline in drug use in Amer...
