Suddenly, Our Drug Laws Need Reform

Attorney General Eric Holder is set to announce Monday that the Justice Department will no longer press mandatory minimum sentences against many low-level drug crime offenders, according to reports.

  The HIll

I wonder how this will play out.

Obviously, this was needed a long, long time ago. That it is only coming now makes me wonder if this is part of the desperation of the Obama administration to regain the black support they have been losing. That is not a racist remark on my part. That is an acknowledgment that our draconian drug laws have inordinately affected the black community. It’s certainly not going to gain any Republican support. I can hear the screeching now. I’m not sure it’s a wisely calculated political move on the administration’s part. We shall see.

And besides, it doesn’t mean that local and state judges won’t continue to hand down mandatory minimums.

“While the aggressive enforcement of federal criminal statutes remains necessary, we cannot simply prosecute or incarcerate our way to becoming a safer nation,” he will say.

But we CAN squelch whistleblowers, Guantánamo, and  drone bomb our way there, apparently.