There has been a hostility by the President toward military commissions.
I think this is causing quite a bit of concern.
I do not think we should give a preference to military commission trials simply because the enemy attacked civilian peop...
Are those realistic problems that can cause extra effort in trying to maintain these convictions?
We are spending a lot of money, I am telling you. The entire debt of the United States of America will triple in 10 year...
Our great criminal justice system should be seen as a whole. It should be coherent.
I think the fact that you have, in Mississippi, 11 cases overturned as a result of ineffective assistance of counsel ind...
It is troubling that we still apparently have backlogs in analysis of rape kits and other analysis of that kind.
But I do think that we are doing a better job about competence of counsel, and the training strikes me as a very valuabl...
Senator Sessions' point about budget is absolutely accurate.
Discipline is a big part of success in these programs.
But I think what I hear you saying is that without placing the public at any real greater risk, maybe marginally, you co...
So the Federal system should be done right, but so if you take money--the problem with States is--one of the problems is...
Need to be. Could be.
I think perhaps you and I have discussed the need for better statistical information.
I would say to you that Norm Carlson--some of you might remember him, former prison commissioner, and he said there is n...
I think that is true.
Well, one of the things that happens in the program that I--a couple things happen with grants.
