UncoverDC By Steve Friend -January 13, 2023
With recent revelations of President Biden’s potential mishandling of classified government documents, the media spotlight has returned to Attorney General Merrick Garland. While politicians, journalists, and blue check marks on Twitter endlessly debate the wisdom of his investigative decisions surrounding the scandal, I am compelled to highlight another Department of Justice matter deserving public examination.
On December 16th, 2022, Garland issued a memorandum to all federal prosecutors. The memo centered on charging, pleas, and sentencing in drug cases. It was not intended for public dissemination but was recently published with little attention or fanfare. I was alerted to the document by virtue of my expanding network of government whistleblower sympathizers and informants within the DOJ. Garland’s memo seeks to apply the DOJ’s latest interpretations “with particular force in drug cases” and opines how mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines produce “disproportionately severe sentences for certain defendants and perceived and actual racial disparities in the criminal justice system.”
As an experienced DOJ employee, allow me to interpret Garland’s government legalese. The Attorney General is directing DOJ prosecutors to skirt sentencing guidelines passed by both houses of the United States Congress and signed into law by an American president. Garland’s logic behind his guidance is simple. Call it woke, political correctness, intersectionality, or critical race theory. Irrespective of the label, the DOJ chieftain fully embraced radical racial ideology and concluded that the current ethnic demographic of federal prisoners serving time for past crimes should drive how prosecutors dole out sentence recommendations for future crimes.
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https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/01/13/merrick-garland-considers-race-in-sentencing-recommendations/
