Showing posts with label U.S. Sentencing Commission. Show all posts
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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Hell, GOP can't even defund Big Bird, Amtrak, TVA…!

Hell, GOP can't even defund Big Bird, Amtrak, TVA…!

July 25, 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch , Chuck Grassley 0 Comments

Boehner Wants More ‘Facts’ Before Ending Planned Parenthood Funding--Here Are 8

By Sarah Torre, July 24, 2015 Daily Signal

WASHINGTON — Thousands of dangerous federal prison inmates will be released in November as a result of the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s decision to lower federal sentencing for all drug trafficking and distribution crimes, two Republican lawmakers warned Tuesday.

According to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, the release will include inmates with violent criminal histories who committed crimes involving assault, firearms, and even murder.

Goodlatte and Grassley sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch Wednesday asking for more information about these inmates including a history of offenses for each offender projected release date, any known aliases of the offender along with the full legal name, the offender’s country of citizenship, and whether BOP has notified or intends to notify ICE about the release of any unlawful criminal aliens.

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Friday, May 23, 2014

Eric Holder’s Three Examples Of ‘Pernicious’ Racism Don’t Hold Up, Part III By Larry Elder

May 23, 2014 Articles by Larry Elder , Attorney General Eric Holder 2 Comments
By Larry Elder, May 23, 2014

Attorney General Eric Holder gave three examples of what he called America’s “pernicious racism.” The third example is Holder’s claim that black criminal defendants get longer sentences than white people get for committing similar crimes.

Holder said, “In our criminal justice system, systemic and unwarranted racial disparities remain disturbingly common.” Citing the U.S. Sentencing Commission, he said black men are sentenced to prison terms 20 percent longer then our whites who commit similar crimes. “Disparate outcomes,” Holder said, “are not only shameful and unacceptable, they impede our ability to see that justice is done. … A criminal justice system that treats groups of people differently -- and punishes them unequally -- has a much more negative impact than misguided words that we can reject out of hand.”

But Holder misrepresents commission’s conclusion.

True, they found that black criminal male defendants receive sentences 19.5 percent longer and than do white males who commit similar crimes. But, contrary to what the attorney general implied, the sentencing commission never used the term "racism" to explain the gap. The commission said, “[Judges] make sentencing decisions based on many legitimate [emphasis added] considerations that are not or cannot be measured."

Twenty years ago, in 1994, the Justice Department surveyed felony cases in the country’s 75 largest urban areas. Is there institutional racism in arresting, trying and sentencing black criminal defendants? The survey actually found lower felony prosecution rates for blacks than whites, and that blacks were less likely to be found guilty at trial. Once convicted, blacks were likely to receive longer sentences than whites, but this disparity was due to differences in the severity of the crime, their prior criminal records or other legal variables. Is today’s criminal justice system more racist now than twenty years ago? Holder apparently thinks so.

In the end, the attorney general’s speech was really about this one big question: How much racism remains in America?

Then-Sen. Obama once quantified it. He estimated the remaining amount of American racism -- at 10 percent.

In a 2007 speech, Obama praised what he called the Moses generation: “The previous generation, the Moses generation, pointed the way. They took us 90 percent of the way there. We [members of what Obama called the ‘Joshua generation’] still got that 10 percent in order to cross over to the other side.”

Ten percent.

For Holder, this remaining 10 percent is “pernicious” and “subtle” and “cut[s] deeper.” To him, this includes photo voter ID; disproportionate expulsion rates; and the false assertion that racism explains why blacks receive longer sentences than whites for similar crimes.

“Pernicious” racism?


None of the Holder’s assertions come close to supporting his argument of racism, let alone the "pernicious" racism. All can and are readily explained in non-racist ways. Are these the best examples of the 10 percent racism that remains? If so, then America -- as regards "race relations" -- has never looked better.

 Related:  Eric Holder’s Three Examples Of ‘Pernicious’ Racism Don’t Hold Up, Part I By Larry Elder

 Related:  Eric Holder’s Three Examples Of ‘Pernicious’ Racism Don’t Hold Up, Part II By Larry Elder

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