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The biggest story... . It's Trumps stunning, deliberate, and unprecedented insertion of presidential power, politics, and favoritism into our judicial system.
Look, we all know there's plenty of injustice in the justice system. Look at the decades-long practice of imposing far harsher sentences on those convicted of using of distributing crack cocaine vs. cocaine in powder form. Those using crack cocaine tended to be Black, while powder cocaine was the preferred drug of white people. What a coincidence!
That's an example of systemic disparities that many are working to change. (The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 reduced the cocaine penalties' differences.)
Trump used the power of the presidency to put his stubby thumb on the scales of justice to benefit a close ally and longtime friend.
Trump's demand that the sentence recommended by federal prosecutors for his good buddy Roger Stone be reduced is astonishing enough. But adding to the impropriety was the fact that AG William Bar and top Justice Department officials jumped when Trump interfered, declaring that they would change the prosecutors' recommendation to a lighter sentence for the president's friend because, well, that's what you do when you're in the tank.
The whole stinking mess caused all four prosecutors to resign from the case -- and one quit the Justice Department altogether. [BOSTON GLOBE, Fast Forward, February 12, 2020]
Trump's demand that the sentence recommended by federal prosecutors for his good buddy Roger Stone be reduced is astonishing enough. But adding to the impropriety was the fact that AG William Bar and top Justice Department officials jumped when Trump interfered, declaring that they would change the prosecutors' recommendation to a lighter sentence for the president's friend because, well, that's what you do when you're in the tank.
The whole stinking mess caused all four prosecutors to resign from the case -- and one quit the Justice Department altogether. [BOSTON GLOBE, Fast Forward, February 12, 2020]
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