I think it was a couple of years ago that a staffer for an influential United States Senator told me face-to-face that the country needed sentencing "reform" because there simply is not enough money in DOJ's budget to afford incarceration at the present levels.
There is, however, enough money for this. Eric Holder outdoes Narcissus by a country mile.
It's an embarrassment. There's no other way to put it. I can't say I "know" Michael Mukasey exactly, but it's beyond comprehension that Judge Mukasey would have allowed, much less participated in, a display like this.
The cost argument for the Smarter Sentencing Act was always so much tripe (since this Administration, like past ones, simply borrows to finance things it actually cares about), but putting tax dollars into gushing self-congratulation drives home the point like nothing else.
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