Justice Department Backs Plan to Eliminate Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 30th, 2009 4:31 am by HL
Justice Department Backs Plan to Eliminate Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
Justice Department officials yesterday endorsed for the first time a plan that would eliminate vast sentencing disparities between possession of powdered cocaine and rock cocaine, an inequity that civil rights groups say has affected poor and minority defendants disproportionately.
President Obama Holds Town Hall in Arnold, Mo.
SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA [*] OBAMA: Thank you so much. What a wonderful introduction. It’s good to be out of Washington. It’s good to be back in the Midwest. Love you back. (APPLAUSE) Let me, first of all, ask everybody to give a huge round of applause to Linda for the great introduct…
Government Officials Take to the Web to Address Swine Flu Fears
When it comes to swine flu, the Feds are maintaining full online alert.