President Donald Trump deemed himself the “law and order” president, taking a “tough on crime” stance emphasized during his inaugural address in January that described the current state of America as a dystopian society.
Trump’s newly appointed U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was highly contested, is promoting his agenda by potentially seeking to turn back the hands of time and revisit mandatory minimum sentences that disproportionately affected Blacks and Latinos during the 1980s and ’90s.
“Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs is bad,” the attorney general said in a speech to law enforcement officials in Richmond, Va., last month.
