Michelle Alexander: We Must Respond Forcefully & Challenge Jeff Sessions's New War on Drugs
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#2Q21C)
Civil rights advocate and best-selling author Michelle Alexander responds to the new push by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to escalate the war on drugs by rescinding two Obama-era memos that encouraged prosecutors to avoid seeking inordinately harsh sentences for low-level drug offenses. He has also instructed Justice Department prosecutors to pursue "the most serious" charges for all drug offenses.