Originally on 09/05/2020:
We won’t get into employment and unemployment and job growth because while the numbers are better than they have been, that’s an evolving piece that can even transcend administrations. Trump certainly has done nothing to stymie that momentum and those numbers, and it could be argued some tax cuts and infrastructure spending helped increase them, but that’s really a small issue.
How about Trump signing the First Step Act? It passed congress pretty much as bipartisan issue. This addressed the crazy prison and incarceration issues related to crack cocaine. I’m assuming you are familiar with those problems. Mandatory minimums were reduced, gave judges way more flexibility in sentencing the criminals that aren’t violent and it also reined in the 3 strikes law for some of these convictions.
In 2010 Obama tried as crack and powder cocaine sentences were vastly different, and those offenses are racially correlated. Obama reduced those differences going forward.
The law Trump signed made those reductions retroactive.
It is criminal justice reform where blacks are affected the most.
Originally posted by The Kraken
How about Trump signing the First Step Act? It passed congress pretty much as bipartisan issue. This addressed the crazy prison and incarceration issues related to crack cocaine. I’m assuming you are familiar with those problems. Mandatory minimums were reduced, gave judges way more flexibility in sentencing the criminals that aren’t violent and it also reined in the 3 strikes law for some of these convictions.
In 2010 Obama tried as crack and powder cocaine sentences were vastly different, and those offenses are racially correlated. Obama reduced those differences going forward.
The law Trump signed made those reductions retroactive.
It is criminal justice reform where blacks are affected the most.