passed by coming of united states, leave their own opinion out of it, in case of justice jackson, i wrote the first step act, i know it didn t have retro activity in it she read it to have retro activity in it and gave someone a lighter sentence because of it, things of that nature, she sentenced people at the lowest level in the cases which child pornography. we had good reasons for not wanting her on the supreme court. and we need to be proud of her accomplishments, there is no doubt about her credentials, but we want people who will be strict constitutionists. trey: did president biden i know you ser
commission s votes were either unanimous for example, they reduced the 100-1 disparity and you joined every one of your colleagues to make that change retroactive. the vote in favor of retro activity is unanimous. and you ve got to great lengths to explain how the law affects people. we can be confident that the court, its role and its decisions will be more understandable to the american public. in your time on the bench you take the time to explain your decisions and the consequences. when you were before this
a result of this fight? i do believe we can. because we when came here 18 days ago it seemed to be issued on the back burner. but i want tenacity on the hill, and i will persistence has called the legal to be moved to activity. even today, we learned that the speaker of the house, the majority leader and another senator went to meet with the president to talk about the bill, the voting bill, and we know that we need preclearance, and we need preclearance with retro activity with two to three years, and that would solve the problems. we would not have the problems we have, mr. capehart, if texas is not a state it s 83.5% people of color. representative collier, last question to you, and that is
congressional attempts to inact criminal justice reform and at times advocated for strict er mandatory minimum sentences. doj published a report, the case for more incarceration and declared the problem with our criminal justice system was that we were incarcerated too few criminals. more recently, in 2015, you signed a letter opposing the accept tensing reform and corrections act of 2015. this letter states quite clearly your opposition to sentencing reform, particularly the lessening of mandatory minimum sentences with any sort of retro activity. the first step act was signed by president trump. as attorney general, it will be your job to implement the legislation even though you have opposed criminal justice reform in the past. will you commit to fully implementing the first step act? yes, senator. in 1992, when i was attorney general, the violent crime rates were the highest in american
roll back taxes once they exist. so is this a strategy do you believe? absolutely. i think the president believes he has much better leverage in january by us going over the cliff as you say correctly, there is nothing the president needs to do. there is nothing he has to sign. as a matter of law the law changes in january and taxes go up. president doesn t have to do anything. he can sit back and as taxes go up on everybody including that 1% that he has been after, nothing has been done on spending. sequestration could be rolled back with retro activity where the president thinks he is better shape on spending in january. patti ann: alan? you forget the president offered boehner a deal to keep taxes keep the bush tax rate on 98% of the americans. keep those tax rates where they are. not raise taxes and boehner rejected that. he had opportunity excuse me, i m still talking. he has opportunity now to do exactly what the republicans say they want and boehner