U.S. Supreme Court skeptical of expanding crack cocaine reforms
Reuters | May 04, 2021 08:51 PM EDT
People walking a dog greet police officers and their dog outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S (Photo : REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo)
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed skeptical that low-level crack cocaine offenders can benefit under a 2018 federal law that reduced certain prison sentences in part to address racial disparities detrimental to Black defendants.
The nine justices heard their final arguments of the court's nine-month term that began last October in a case involving a Florida man named Tarahrick Terry that tests the scope of the First Step Act signed into law by former President Donald Trump.