Once they got to you, the system had broken. You were courageous for taking those steps, because once you got them, you are limited in what you could do, and you chose to do what y...
But right now at 79 years old, Judge, I am trying to think of why they hell did they go to jail in the first place?
This bill would eliminate all mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses.
Mandatory sentences and the disparity. It took a long time, but they just did it last month.
It occurred to me as a prosecutor that if we had an ingredient coming into a community that didn't grow it, didn't manufacture it...
I bought the argument presented by people representing largely African-Americans. Said to me, 'We are being devastated by this.'
I don't remember the last time anyone was arrested in the state of New York for marijuana.
And so I generally disagree with mandatory sentencing. I am particularly outraged by what has happened over the years with crack cocaine.
Well, let me answer first, because across the board you don't need judges if they don't have discretion.
The United States has never lost a single dollar in investor-state dispute under NAFTA or under any other trade agreement or bilateral inves...
48 million people that don't have health insurance, if we give them, overall the country is going to save money.