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Obama Administration Drug Policy: A Record Of Reform
From drug-related crime and violence, the Obama Administration has remained clear • In August of 2010, the President signed the minimum sentencing disparity between powder and crack cocaine and eliminated the … Content Retrieval
Moving America Forward : President Obama’s Agenda And The …
Mandatory sentences for convictions for crack cocaine and powder cocaine, which has disproportionately affected communities of color. The Federal Government better reflects our Country • President Obama has named more Hispanics to top posts than any of his predecessors, drawing … Fetch Here
Testimony Of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Before The U.S …
President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act into law. This new law not only reduced the inappropriate 100-to-1 sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses – a … Access Document
The Many (Opaque) Echoes Of Compromise Crack Sentencing Reform
America.”3 Only months after taking office, the Justice Department under President Obama went to Capitol Hill to urge Congress to end the disparity in punishment levels under federal sentencing law for powder and crack cocaine offenses. … Access Document
Worth Fighting For: Keeping The Promise Of Sentencing Reform
Although the President-elect’s Web site listed no criminal justice agenda, it did list the complete equaliza tion of crack and powder cocaine sentences as one of Obama’s top civil rights priorities. … Retrieve Document
Obama Administration Releases Blueprint To Reduce Drug Use …
August, President Obama signed into law the Fair Sentencing Act. This significant piece of criminal justice reform dramatically reduced a 100-to-1 disparity between the amounts of powder and crack cocaine that … Doc Viewer
EDERAL RACK OCAINE ENTENCING
2009, President Obama declared that “the disparity between sentencing crack and powder-based cocaine is wrong and should be completely eliminated.” … View This Document
PRACTICE TIP: FAIR SENTENCING ACT
On August, 3, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Fair Sentencing Act, Pub. L. 111-220, which reduces the discriminatory treatment of crack and powder cocaine under federal sentencing laws. … Access Document
Marc Mauer Executive Director
Official notice, pertaining to the Commission’s continuation of work on cocaine sentencing policy. The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 which President Obama signed into law earlier this month significantly reduces the quantity-based sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine by raising the … Retrieve Content
Written Statement Of Over Seventy-Five Organizations & Law …
Structure between crack and powder cocaine. 5 The undersigned agree with the pronouncement of President Obama and Vice President Biden that “the disparity between sentencing crack and powder-based cocaine is wrong and should be … Fetch Doc
By AlAn VinegrAd And DouglAs Bloom The Presidential …
Federal level, President [Ronald] Reagan offered a drug and weapons offenses, were enacted in merits of the 100:1 crack/powder cocaine Whatever Mr. McCain’s position is on the crack/ powder disparity, both Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama … Read Document
Looking For The President's Pardon Power? Try The Supreme Court.
At a recent oral argument in a case involving the crack cocaine sentencing guidelines, Supreme Court Justice recent Bush White House, urges President Obama to make more generous of his pardon power to … Fetch This Document
First 100 Days
Between crack cocaine and powder cocaine. Rep. Jackson-Lee (D-TX18) introduced HR 265, which would reduce President Obama overturned the Global Gag Order which prevented international organizations receiving US aid from discussing abortion. … Read Content
“After” The War On Drugs: – December 2011
In August 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law the Fair Sentencing Act, legislation that limits the harsh punishments that were enacted during the 1980s for low-level crack cocaine offenses. … Fetch Content
Black Passengers, Yellow Cabs
With a gay roommate, with whom she partied heavily in West Hollywood, Anne loved ecstasy and cocaine. In the words of Darren Huston, president of Microsoft Japan, “There is a tremendous opportunity to My existence was tantamount to that of a crack fiend locked up in a crack house, an alcoholic … Read More
NAACP-SUPPORTED LEGISLATION TO REDUCE CRACK COCAINE / POWDER …
United States Senate late in the evening of Wednesday, March 17, 2010, by unanimous consent (without a recorded vote); it will now go to President Obama Everyone seems to agree that crack cocaine use is higher among Caucasians than any other group: most authorities estimate that more than 66% of those … Document Retrieval
ONDCP Accomplishments Fact Sheet 6-1-11
Since the release of President Obama’s first National Drug Control Strategy in May 2010, the Office of of crack cocaine. It also increases penalties for major drug traffickers. … Fetch Doc
"Why Obama Should Not Run"
Obama is already running for president, so why entertain the idea that he should not run? deflated prices for them; promoting guaranteed death products abroad after you have rejected them at home; facilitating a Crack Cocaine … Doc Viewer