{"id":400,"date":"2007-07-02T18:17:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T22:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/07\/02\/bush-to-rule-of-law-screw-you\/"},"modified":"2007-07-02T23:35:32","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T03:35:32","slug":"bush-to-rule-of-law-screw-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/07\/02\/bush-to-rule-of-law-screw-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush to Rule of Law: Screw You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I look forward to Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/07\/02\/AR2007070200927.html?hpid=topnews\">taking a personal interest and action<\/a> in every other federal sentence handed down to ensure that it isn&#8217;t too harsh.<\/p>\n<p>This is so indefensible as to leave me speechless.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Updated<\/strong> to add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2007\/06\/17\/administration_pushes_for_mandatory_sentences\/\">this bit<\/a> of perfect context:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bush administration is trying to roll back a Supreme Court decision by pushing legislation that would require prison time for nearly all criminals.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are seizing the administration&#8217;s crackdown, packaged in legislation to combat violent crime, as a campaign issue for 2008.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech June 1 to announce the bill, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales urged Congress to reimpose mandatory minimum prison sentences against federal convicts &#8212; and not let judges consider such penalties &#8220;merely a suggestion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Such an overhaul, in part, &#8220;will strengthen our hand in fighting criminals who threaten the safety and security of all Americans,&#8221; Gonzales said in the speech, delivered three days before the FBI announced a slight national uptick in violent crime during 2006.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I look forward to Bush taking a personal interest and action in every other federal sentence handed down to ensure that it isn&#8217;t too harsh. This is so indefensible as to leave me speechless. Updated to add this bit of perfect context: The Bush administration is trying to roll back a Supreme Court decision by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}